I love the Scarpetta series.

It was difficult to listen to, to start off with as they have changed the narrator.

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The worst narrator possible with dreadful music.

Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?

The narration of this book was so bad that I gave up. The narrator was not able to do a variety of voices, and I had to slow down the replay speed to be able to keep up. Dreadful atmospheric music also spoiled the entire book. I will not buy again with this narrator. I would return if only Audible would allow me to.

How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?

The story was fine the performance was not

Would you be willing to try another one of Kate Burton’s performances?

NO

Was Port Mortuary worth the listening time?

NO better to read the book. Narrator was dreadful

Any additional comments?

I would like to return but have been anable to do so.

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I usually love Scarpetta but this is disappointing

Lots of interesting science stuff but the story seemed forced. Sadly, I can't recommend.

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Random Music

Can’t understand why they kept putting in random, spooky music throughout the book. It’s an audiobook? The clue is in the name. No need for music to help with the plot.

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Great from beginning to end

Ive yet to find a book in the series i dont like. Im invested from page 1.

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Getting back to her best

Having listened to almost the entire Scarpetta series I was beginning to think that Patricia Cornwell had lost her way a bit. I found the last few books, whilst still enjoyable, just getting a little daft in places. Port Mortuary is a book more akin to the earlier works and all the better for it.

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Really struggled with this one

I have read most of the Scarpetta novels and decided to listen to them all in preparation for the new novel coming out later this year, most narrated by Lorelai King who does am amazing job, and I am not sure why they decided to change narrator for this novel?

Kate Burton is not unpleasant to listen to but she is no actor, or voice actor, she uses the same voice for pretty much all the characters, maybe soundly slightly hoarse when doing Marino or Benton but it is not consistent and she sometimes uses the same voice for two characters having a conversation which is rather confusing. She also change her tone of voice within a sentence spoken by single character, so you think it is two people when it is not and she rarely alters her voice between speech and thought, making the confusion complete. Burton (or the editor) leaves long silent gaps, not just in between chapters, but sometimes in the middle of a chapter which is distracting. In short, she would have been good for a book without conversations, but she just can't do different voices convincingly
I adore Lorelai King's Marino and in this book he just sounds like an old man, not an ounce of the streetwise, cheeky voice King does so well and Scarpetta sounds slightly manic and crazy, Burton has a habit of speeding up when something exciting happens, in a crime novel that is quite often and it means the characters sounds slightly manic half the time..

Also, what's with the weird music in the end of each chapter?

The book is ok, but the narration meant I lost interest and probably missed parts of the plot, it never caught me like the others did, I also wasn't keen on the present tense, this is not the first Scarpetta book written in present tense but it just doesn't work for me, I finished it, but only because I had to know what happened so I can move on to the next in the series, narrated by King..

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Port Mortuary

A bit too complicated for it's own good I thought but not a bad read / listen

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Love the series

But was disappointed that it wasn’t read by Loreli King- as you get used to and love the voices of all the characters after 15 plus books read by her. As ever, complex story and it sucks you in.

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Meandering tale.

This story had a centre that failed to fill. The development of the main characters is impressive though.

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