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The Bastwick Testament

DI Tanner Norfolk Broads Murder Mystery Series, Book 13

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The Bastwick Testament

By: David Blake
Narrated by: Peter Wicks
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A CHILLING NORFOLK BROADS CRIME THRILLER!

A haunted crypt, a bullied boy, and an artist’s will: a benevolent gesture or a satanic curse?

When the body of a local artist is found mutilated inside a five-pointed star, DCI Tanner’s attention turns to the disciples of a Satanic cult. But when the man's body is discovered to be the cult’s leader, Tanner's interest is soon drawn to his will, and the five beneficiaries who’ve been named in it.

Set within the mysterious beauty of the Norfolk Broads, this fast-paced British detective series is a dark cozy Norfolk murder mystery with a slice of humour and a touch of romance, one that will have you guessing until the very end, when the last shocking twist is finally revealed.

The Bastwick Testament is a totally addictive gripping crime thriller, the twelth in a chilling series of serial killer books, ones which will rapidly convert followers of L J Ross, Faith Martin, Joy Ellis, Damien Boyd, J M Dalgliesh, and Elly Griffiths into David Blake devotees.

©2025 David Blake (P)2025 David Blake Action & Adventure Crime Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Murder Detective

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I enjoy the stories but they are spoiled by the authors poor research and knowledge of facts, procedures, and the geography of Norfolk. The new narrator is different and I’m still deciding what I think, warming to them.

Good story but lazy research which spoils all the stories

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Thoroughly enjoyed this 📖 the narration was excellent as always bringing characters to life .
Would recommend audible if like me you are unable to read due to eyesight issues. However I am sure in book form it will no doubt please authors readers👍 as it is a real page turner 👌

a great twist in the tale 👌

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Enjoyed this book. Have read all in the series. And the change of narrator also was excellent.

The narrator was excellent

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Sadly found this very hard to get into. Having listened to the Tanner series from the start the characters personalities were well established & each book was like revisiting old friends. While I understand it’s not always possible to have the same narrator maybe trying to stay close to the original presentation would have worked better.

Like starting over

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I didn’t enjoy the new narration and just couldn’t get into the book at all, it was like. Starting a new series. Very disappointed with the book

New narrator, gave totally different feel to all the characters, please bring Jonathan Keeble back

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I have listened to the entire series and preordered it before realising that it wasnt being narrated by Jonathan Keeble, who I can just listen to for ages. It took me a while to get into the book as a result.

The story and characters are a bit far fetched and a bit frustrating it doesnt seem to have the link to police procedures that other books have but I just went with the flow.

Interesting with new narrator

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Another brilliant book in this series. The story, set in the run up to Christmas, was interesting and very twisty. As always there is plenty of humour. The ending took me completely by surprise, which doesn't happen very often, so bravo Mr Blake!

When I heard that this book had a different narrator to the previous books in the series I was horrified. . After all, Jonathan Keeble is a hard act to follow.. But Peter Wicks did a fantastic job. The voices he gave to the main characters were similar to Keeble's so I soon got used to the new narrator..

A surprise ending

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I found the change of narrator very off putting. It just doesn’t sound like Tanner any more. Tanner now has a bit of a slow drool and it seems to impact on the personality. Overall this affected my enjoyment of the story. I thought the story was okay but not as good as some of the others earlier in the series. Les’s of Christine throughout was a good thing though!

John Tanner is dead and comes back as another man!

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Difficult, but not because of the new narrator. The dialogue was so very slow, so needed speeding up and the so called wit and sarcasm which was so childish, became almost unbearable. Not sure I’d bother with another. Not a good one from David Blake.

I found The Bastwick Testament difficult to get through.

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I really missed the normal narrator. This one did a good job but I loved the voices before.

Where is my narrator?

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