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Murder at Roaringwater

By: Nick Foster
Narrated by: Mark Elstob
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Murder at Roaringwater is the inside story of a young Frenchwoman, Sophie Toscan du Plantier. In this notorious and unresolved crime, the victim seemed to have a premonition of her own terrible end.

Ever since she was violently killed outside her holiday cottage in the remote West Cork countryside just before Christmas in 1996, mystery has surrounded the unresolved case of Sophie Toscan du Plantier.

For six years, author Nick Foster has been painstakingly piecing together her life and death, developing an ongoing ‘friendship’ with the Englishman long-suspected of her murder, Ian Bailey, and his partner, Jules Thomas.

The story follows Foster in Paris and Ireland as he leaves no stone unturned in his quest to reveal the young Frenchwoman’s killer and understand the motives behind such a terrible crime.

©2021 Nick Foster (P)2021 W. F. Howes Ltd Murder Social Sciences True Crime Celebration

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"A true-crime tour de force. Foster delivers a forensic and exciting account of this international murder mystery." (Donal Macintyre)
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Small detail but not hard to get right – also important considering it features so heavily in the book.

And those kinds of details are what separates good narration from AI.

Overall, an interesting addition to the ongoing saga of Sophie’s murder. Perhaps one day someone will make the effort to write a book that focuses solely on her.

Bailey is either guilty or the most unfortunate distraction to ever be associated with a murder case.

I hope one day science will determine the answer.

It’s pronounced ‘Skull’ not ‘school’

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loved everything about this book,its timeliness its narrative and would recommend it to any sleuth

great listen very interesting case still unsolved?

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Overall an interesting book and the story does reveal some information not in the tv documentaries or the West Cork podcast so for that I give it 4. The author seems to over-egg his discoveries somewhat but I still enjoyed it.

The narration however was incredibly frustrating with hugely incorrect pronunciation of Irish place names like Schull and the word Síochana which as you can imagine are used very frequently. It really grates after a while. Also the narrator changed the way he says Schull half way through the book to another different but wrong way. All in all on this occasion I would prefer to read the paperback.

Irritating Pronunciations

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A true moving account of a life lost in a most tragic way. Beautifully told. Haunting.

A tribute - gripping.

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Good listen except for the pronunciation of the narrator which ruins the entire book. He has obviously never been to Ireland and it’s a shame he never took advice on same.

Terrible pronunciation

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The narrator is woeful, I suggest peer review before publishing. Also why is there 15 word minimum.

Learn the name of the places in the story

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The book itself is excellent, a comprehensive account of the entire story of the Sophie Toscan Du Plantier case. It has good sources and is well set out to chronologically take the reader through the entirety of the case.

However the performance is poor, the narrator ignorantly pronounces many key words incorrectly such as “Schull”, “Dermot Dywer” and “Síochana”. You would think that someone narrating a book with those names and words appearing so frequently would go to the trouble of researching pronunciation. Apparently not. Unfortunately, this takes the gloss off of an otherwise very good book. As soon as you are really starting to get into it there is another incorrect pronunciation which gets very annoying.

Overall I would recommend.

The performance is not great

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I found the narration actually quite good, though I appreciate that others were bothered, quite rightly, by mispronunciation of local place names and such.
This book goes over a lot of the information about this case that’s already in the public domain through other books, podcasts and tv films. I found it better structured and argued than some.
Mr Foster aims to differentiate his account by hitting on a specific detail that was ignored by the Gardai in the initial investigation and which he (Foster) determines to be a crucial piece of evidence overall, and specifically pointing to the guilt of Ian Bailey. That’s fair enough as a means to promote the book I guess.
I’m neither for or against Bailey as a suspect. However, the evidence in question was given by a person working in the motor trade. To suggest he might be confused or didn’t have sufficient time to observe the details of a vehicle he was filling with petrol, leading him to mistake a grey/blue car with no hub caps for a silver car with hubcaps seems to be stretching a point beyond credibility. I will also observe that, as a woman driving alone I often push back the passenger seat so that I can store items in the footwell. Sophie arrived at Cork airport with a number of items of luggage, and had a drive of around 2 hours from the airport to her house in Toormore. Perfectly reasonable to think she may have had a bag stowed safely on the floor but in easy reach with snacks, drinks, tissues, sanitary supplies etc that she may need on the drive.
Rather more interesting might be which other French women were in the area at that time who might have had a motive for killing Sophie so brutally, and a burly accomplice?

Well structured book, covering familiar ground for the most part. Warning spoilers.

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Really enjoyed this, well researched with an abundance of detail and perspective. Like other reviews it's let down a but by the continuous mispronunciation of the Irish Language but I imagine that doesn't really matter if your not Irish..either way a great listen!

A great listen, shame about the pronunciation!

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I loved the frank and honest account of Nick Fosters book BUT...the Narrator was totally wrong. He pronounced alot of Irish names and places wrong which was incredibly annoying. His accent was more stiff upper lip...more suited to a story about the Royal Family. Nick Foster himself should have narrated this book as he has a good voice, more down to earth and as it's his own book I think he would have done a much better job. I love audiobooks but it's the first time I have ever not finished a book. I'll have to read the book instead as that annoying narration really turned me off what should be a really interesting and informative account of what happened in Scull to Sophie.

Totally wrong narrator

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