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  • Dark Crimes

  • DCI Sophie Allen, Book 1
  • By: Michael Hambling
  • Narrated by: Cat Gould
  • Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
  • 3.3 out of 5 stars (205 ratings)

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Narrated by: Cat Gould
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Summary

A young woman's body is discovered on a deserted footpath.

It seems like a simple crime for DCI Sophie Allen and her team to solve. But not when the victim's mother is found strangled the next morning. The case grows more complex as DCI Sophie Allen discovers that the victims had secret histories involving violence and intimidation. There's an obvious suspect, but Detective Allen isn't convinced. Could someone else be lurking in the shadows, someone savagely violent, looking for warped revenge?

Dark Crimes is the first in a series of detective thrillers featuring DCI Sophie Allen, head of the newly formed Violent Crime Unit in Dorset. She is pushed to the limit in her first major case as the team's head.

©2016 Michael Hambling (P)2016 Tantor

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It was an ok story but please sack the narrator she was terrible. It spoiled a reasonable story.

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Good plot spoilt by too many mispronunciations by narrator and at times her bored tone.

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The narrator

The narrator spoiled the story for me. I was sometimes laughing so much at the awful accents that it took the emphasis away from the story.

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Enjoyable

Worth a listen. Narration OK - a little robotic and almost everyone sounded the same, which got a little grating as got further through. I found the ending a little lacking but still enjoyed. Worth listening to being free at the moment.

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Awful narrator

I really did try, but as previously said the narration is quite bizarre, totally distracts you from what probably was a decent story, couldn’t finish

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Off putting speaker

That Australian accent could not be disguised and really took away the authenticity of the tale. Walzal????? Walsall surely!

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Clunky language and terrible narration

The story itself was interesting although became more absurd as it went on. The police procedure and chief inspector but a bit unbelievable in places. The narration was awful, wrong emphasis, mispronunciations, unreal accents and every word spoken separately, almost dalek like in places. Not reading it I don‘t know if it was written completely without contractions, even in speech, but nothing flowed. I wanted to hear the end of the story and found marginally better on 1.3 speed, something I‘ve never done before.

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Couldn’t stick with it

Oh dear, Had promise but the narrator was AWFUL. Gave up after < 1 hour as couldn’t bear to listen.

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Off putting Narrator.

Story was good but is was spoiled by the awful narrator. Her accents were terrible. Will not listen to the next one if it’s the same person narrating.

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Struggled with the narrator but do like books like this

I’ve struggled to stick with this book as the narrator is hard to listen to.

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