Toff Cop Continues!

I was a bit worried originally that the first book was a stand-alone but it seems Durrant wants to continue with her stately-home owning cop Matt Brindle. It's certainly an interesting setup and the characters are pretty relatable. Tim Bentinck adds some great local accents to give a feel of authenticity, though I hasten to add both that I am very much an ignorant Southerner and also that his female voices are also quite strained and whiny at times. He does the main thing I worry about though which is to have enough character voices to help distinguish between them.

The mystery here is an interesting one, two seemingly unrelated victims but are they linked? It dovetails well into what went in the first book and despite its relative brevity is quite detailed with several turns and twists along the way. Does it, as the blurb states have a ' stunning edge-of-your-seat ending'? Well, not in my book I have to say and the motivations of the villains wasn't always convincing to me.

It's satisfying for the most part though I wouldn't put it in the top rank in this crowded genre.

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bloody brilliant

an excellent book by Helen, so many twists to the story.the. narration as fantastic,. putting his all into it. clearly Tim really enjoyed reading the book as you can tell with the tone and excitement in his voice.

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Great!

Excellent story, fills in some of the background from the first book and expands the characters further I have little doubt more in this series will follow. The performance on the whole was very good but some of the female characters voices are a little strange.

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Good listen

Good listening very gripping well read, i enjoy all her books looking forward to next in the series

Good Book

This is a very book but then Helen Durrant is a good author,i have read quite a few of here book , gripping stories.

Another excellent book and narration

It was hard to follow at times as there are so many characters. It was a good plot. The narration was really good although the voices put to the two young men grated on my nerves a little

Another good book

I am enjoying this series so far. I got right stuck into this, well written & good narrative also.

Another exciting book from Helen H Durrant

The storyline is impressive, the characters fascinating, and the action is fearless. Many twists and turns along the way to keep you gripped. I just had to listen in one sitting!

Very muddled

If the author had written 'do one' whatever it means one more time I was going to return the book. It read like the author had dipped into a hat of scenarios and then incorporated them into a totally unbelievable book. This type of book used to have to be self published, can't believe any decent publisher would think this worty of print.

The narrator might be improving

After listening to the first book in this series and the narrators truly awful female voices I didn’t know if I’d make it through this one, but I’d already purchased it so I gave it a go. The female voices were marginally better, but still not great, and some of the male voices are still pretty rough!
The book overall, however, was pretty easy listening, and the storyline not the worst I’ve ever listened to. It’s ‘okay’ overall.