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Down Cemetery Road

By: Mick Herron
Narrated by: Julia Franklin
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When a house explodes in a quiet Oxford suburb and a young girl disappears in the aftermath, Sarah Tucker becomes obsessed with finding her. Accustomed to dull chores in a childless household and hosting her husband’s wearisome business clients for dinner, Sarah suddenly finds herself questioning everything she thought she knew, as her investigation reveals that people long believed dead are still among the living, while the living are fast joining the dead.

What begins in a peaceful neighbourhood reaches its climax on a remote, unwelcoming Scottish island as the search puts Sarah in league with a man who finds himself being hunted down by murderous official forces.

©2003 Mick Herron (P)2020 Isis Publishing Ltd Crime Thrillers Thriller & Suspense Thriller Fiction Suspense

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Mick Herron's style is witty, descriptive with often beautiful use of language, but the plot of this book doesn't work. Why is Sarah obsessed with finding a girl she doesn't know and who are the players involved? Lots of pointless murders and an unsatisfactory ending. Disappointing
The narration is slightly exaggerated but you get used to it.

Witty but unfocused

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Perhaps anything would have been a disappointment after the Slough House books and perhaps writing this was all part of Mick Herron learning his craft.
Maybe that is something most authors need to do - I just don’t know.

However, while it is possible to catch glimpses of humour and of his eventual style, this plot lacks cohesion and credibility and is not helped one little bit by a turgid and stilted narration.

I was all up for buying the series but with a heavy heart will call a halt at this one.

Underwhelming - such a shame.

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Superb story. Gripping all the way through. Best listened at 0,9 speed. Mick Herron is a master storyteller.

Brilliant!

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It might be worth reading the physical book but the narrator sounds like she's reading an Agatha Raisin book. The first book ever that I couldn't listen to.

Not his best

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As a huge fan of Mick Herron I am not sure if this was a weaker than normal book or whether the narration was so off the mark that it just felt like that. Especially when the usual narrator, Sean Barrett, reads Mike Herron’s work so brilliantly. This felt like we were being read a children’s bed time story in a particularly patronising manner.

Ruined by the narration

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I loved Slow Horses but this was not in the same league. The narrator had a very "wet" (as in excessive saliva) delivery which I found irritating. An interesting plot which at first was a little difficult to follow audibly but would probably be ok in the written form and will definitely make a good TV series. I may listen to it again after I watch.
I will try the other books in the series in hard copy from.

Disappointed

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Apart from a longish and fairly turgid recounting of a drug taking event from student days the story rolled along well. It’s possible to find glimmers of the future brilliance and bare outlines of figures to come, though in different guises.

The narrator coped well with a difficult task. Giving each character a different voice / vocal tone can’t have been easy. Whilst some grated rather, that’s probably the way voices are in real life.

An interesting start

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I assume the characters will get to better things. I've come to this from Slough House, like others. It's a different sort of story so I'm prepared to try the next one in the series, after a break...

A slow start, but a good story

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Interesting story and characters good narration. What threw me off is the persistent stomach growling in chapter 12&13. Are you feeding your narrators and editors properly?

Overall good

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Good enough story, maybe not as good as Slow Horses, but Mick Herron remains a master storyteller. The narration however really interfered with enjoyment. Irritating rising inflection at end of sentences; laboured yet oddly placed emphasis throughout; Herron’s deadpan humour often reduced by same; poor male voices generally, some female voices sounding essentially like overgrown children. A real shame.

Poor narration interferes with story

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