Dead Water

Shetland, Book 5

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Dead Water

By: Ann Cleeves

Narrated by: Kenny Blyth

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A journalist working on a story. Now his murder is a headline. Inspector Jimmy Perez is called in to investigate in Dead Water, the fifth Shetland mystery from Ann Cleeves.

Now a major BBC One drama, Shetland, starring Douglas Henshall.

When the body of a journalist is found in a traditional Shetland boat, Detective Inspector Willow Reeves is drafted in to head up the investigation.

Jimmy Perez has been out of the loop, but his local knowledge is needed and he decides to help the inquiry. Originally a Shetlander, the journalist had left the islands years before to make a name for himself in London, leaving a scandal in his wake. He had few friends in Shetland, so why was he back?

When Willow and Jimmy dig deeper, they realize that he was chasing a story that many Shetlanders didn't want to come to the surface. One that must have been significant enough to kill him for . . .

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Let's start with the positive: clearly, there's enough there for me to keep purchasing more books in this series. And I will continue doing so, because I find them entertaining and soothing. However, certain things, mostly in the narration, are really starting to grate. Kenny Blyth is apparently a very well-known and very professional narrator, but did he maybe have too much work so he didn't take the time to read each passage before narrating it? Because he gets the intonation, emotion, personality, age, etc. wrong SO many times. He makes almost all women sound really, really old and Mrs Doubtfire-y. “xx was beaming and yy thought again how young she looked.” How can you look at Mrs Doubtfire and think she looks young? Often, even when it's literally written in what way a character says something, he completely reads it like something else. Like a whispered “Come with me” when the very next sentence makes clear that the character was screaming! It’s just so odd, as if he didn’t prepare. From his website I can see (and hear) he does many different voices and vibes, so I genuinely don't understand why in this book almost all characters sound the same - all Shetlanders sound like eldery crofter clichés, even when they're 28. That's my major prolbem, but there are a few other smaller points. The word 'mischievious' is used surprisingly often, and always with the incorrect i added. I don't know if that's Kenny mispronouncing the correct 'mischievous' or Ann actually having written it incorrectly. Perez switches off his mobile phone so many times that at least some of those occasions, the author must have meant that he ended the call, right? Who shuts off their mobile phone so often, especially when you’re a police inspector/detective on a case? Maybe it's my ocd, but these things are very distracting to me.

the narration is really getting to me