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The Murder Wall

DCI Kate Daniels, Book 1

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The Murder Wall

By: Mari Hannah
Narrated by: Colleen Prendergast
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The Murder Wall is Maria Hannah's first gripping crime novel featuring DCI Kate Daniels.

Eleven months after discovering a brutal double murder in a sleepy Northumbrian town, Detective Chief Inspector Kate Daniels is still haunted by her failure to solve the case. Then the brutal killing of a man on Newcastle’s Quayside gives Daniels another chance to get it right, and her first case as Senior Investigating Officer. When Daniels recognises the corpse but fails to disclose the fact, her personal life swerves dangerously into her professional life. But much worse, she is now being watched.

As Daniels steps closer to finding a killer, a killer is only a breath away from claiming his next victim....

©2018 Mari Hannah (P)2018 Audible, Ltd Crime Thrillers Detective Fiction Literature & Fiction Mystery Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Police Procedural Thriller Thriller & Suspense Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Scary Suspense

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Whilst I have listened to several books by this narrator I don’t think she suits the ‘Crime and Thriller’ genre. This is a good story but the narrator just didn’t make it come alive and I found myself drifting off and losing concentration many times. Unfortunately it has put me off reading the rest of the series

Not for this narrator

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It takes about 50 chapters for all the characters and story to become clear. Then it takes off and remains interesting. Won’t pay to hear another from this author.

Rambling story

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Oi really loved the narration of this book found it a great listen , I loved the accent Went wirth the area of the story and suited the characters. Will be getting the rest in the series


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Unusually, I never got into this book, finding it tedious at best, and yet I still read to the rather than rather than returning. I think this was because I didn't really understand why I disliked it so much... so, here's my guesswork.

*Narration*: the accent wasn't geordie, and occasionally twanged posh. However, she never pronounces her letter t. It didn't sound right, and felt like a London accent trying to be geordie. I strongly recommend listening to the audio sample, in case, as it was to me, this is deeply irritating to you.

*Character development*: the author tries to develop character, but the style seems to be very short sentences and equally short developments. Perhaps that's "punchy", but I just felt it didn't work. It ended up being a long series of statements, but nothing especially probing.

*Plot interest*; In the last chapters, motive is revealed. Then it was interesting. But, like the rest of the book, it was a punchy series of this was the start, this was the next, now we're the end. Without timing it, I think that must have been 5 minutes total.

*So many pointless descriptions:* There were so many pointless details, which had no bearing whatsoever on the scene, story, character or anything. It sounded more like a child recounting an exciting day with their friends at a theme park, highlighting the bits they found fun regardless of whether it contributed to the overall readers' understanding of their day, rather than an author creating a novel with every word designed to feed the finale.

*SO... who might like this?*

It's a pretty basic story. It's pretty locally interesting to Newcastle, UK. It doesn't say much about UK police. It doesn't say much about misogyny. It doesn't reveal much about psychopathy. And it jumps about enough to be difficult for people who want a book on in the background.

I really don't know who'd like this.

What I didn't like...

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I hope we have many more Kate Daniels stories. It would be good to have one with a lot of perspective on Jo too

Murder Wall

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A good story that kept my interest. However there were a lot of character names to remember and the narration jumped from one to another, sometimes with hardly a pause, making it difficult to follow.

Enjoyable but confusing

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I really enjoyed this book and have already bought the next one in the series. I loved the characters and getting to know more about them. The reasons for the murders kept me guessing to the end.

Great start to a series.

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I was delighted to discover this Kate Daniels series and have listened to every one so far.
The characters are well formed and believable and the stories interesting and a little unusual.
Personally, I have really enjoyed the narration...the geordie accent is excellent!
Definitely recommend!

A great find!

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I agree with other reviewers about it being confusing at times and a lot of names and connections to try and follow. Loved the narrator’s accent but irritated that Daniels was replaced by Daniel frequently, I kept questioning whether there was another character!

Kept my mind occupied

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Too many times when something convenient happens to either aid the plot or to block it. Also, too many instances where people did things that they just wouldn’t do in normal life given their character it seemed to me. Shame though because there was some good story in here and the characters are interesting.

Too many conveniences

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