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Drowned Lives

By: Stephen Booth
Narrated by: David Thorpe
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Set in and around the dark, misty canals of Lichfield, Stephen Booth's incredible new novel is awash with mystery.

When council officer Chris Buckley is approached by an odd old man demanding help in healing a decades-old family rift, he sends the stranger away. But then the old man is murdered, and the police arrive on the Chris's doorstep asking questions to which he has no answers.

As Chris begins to look into the circumstances of the murder, he uncovers a deadly secret in the silt and mud of the local canals that he'll realise was better kept buried.

©2019 Stephen Booth (P)2019 Hachette Audio UK Crime Thrillers Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Psychological Small Town & Rural Suspense Thriller & Suspense Thriller Mystery

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A very pleasant story rhat helped me through the Covid lockdown. I would recommend this book.

Cov 19

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This takes Booth away to the south from his usual Peak District to the industrial Midlands. The story spans a couple of centuries or so. It starts to get a bit confusing as to who is who as characters pop up and disappear for a while. You have to remember family trees, which I find difficult.

Not your usual Booth but good

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I must admit to being a tad reluctant to read this one as I hadn't enjoyed your other stand alone one, I'm more of a Cooper and Fry fan. But as the next isnt yet out I took a deep breath and got this one. What a difference it was I could hardly put it down I just had to find out what happened next, in fact when I did I found myself still trying to guess the next chapter. So Thank you for the Brilliant read.

Thank you Stephen for another great book.

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Spoilt by narration. Fell asleep. Will have to get book on kindle to judge the author

Narrator spoilt book. Strange construction of narrative.

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did struggle a bit with all the characters. Probably missed a few hints. Recommend anyway

Characters

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Only just got through this book. There are some dark secrets that the main character has to find out, despite the fact he does not want to (which takes a chapter to explain). There then follows a long and winding explanation of the family background and then we are drawn back to the second world war, and very unbelievable tale of two brothers, who I struggled to comprehend were anything to do with the story. Confused? So was I! Perhaps I missed the point of the book, but I think not. To me badly written and appallingly plotted. However, the reader was very good, its only saving grace.

Long and Tedious

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I listened to this for about 4 hours then gave up. Just seems to be a load of padding leading up to (presumably) some revelation, but not interesting enough to hold my attention or care about what the revelation might be. Returned.

Doesn’t seem to go anywhere

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I have read all the previous books by Stephen Booth, but this particular book completely lost me.
It rambled on with too many characters to remember, so much so, I skipped some of it and just went to the last few chapters, something I don't do as I had paid for the pleasure of a good book!
It feels like an old book, published to meet requirements.
The saving grace was the narrator, I really like his accents and found the different characters believable.

Not an enjoyable read.

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