Love this author

The characters and story lines never fail. Fresh every time. Can’t wait for next one.

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Disappointing, especially the narration

As books go, the story was fine. It didn’t exactly enthral but was interesting enough to keep me going to the end, However, the narration was a disappointment to say the least. I had expected better of Hugh Dancy. There was very little change in voice to distinguish different characters and, worse, every sentence, every phrase ended on a downward cadence. Many individual words too. Everything was drawn out and very slow. The result was a rather depressing listen. On the plus side he has an excellent French accent.

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amazing as all your others.

I really enjoyed getting to know alex, he is so different from Ryan yet some how quite similar. I love the references to Ryan.maybe you will have Ryan in Alex's book some day. I love love love it as much as all your others.

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great

narrator was great. enjoyed story hope there are more like this. love L J ROSS

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So much better than the first, enthralling.

I was wholly unimpressed by the first in this series, having been a longtime reader of their other series DI Tanner, and only listened to the this second one as I had already bought it and was slightly hopeful it would be better.

Where the first story was bland and obvious throughout, this was so much better, enthralling, well defined characters, actual thought put into the plot, the story progression and the local ( Paris).

Where the first book narration sounded like the narrator was half asleep and struggled with accents and seemed under strict orders not to put any feeling whatsoever into the telling of t he story, this was far far better, it seemed the narrator was finally let off the leash, put meaning and emphasis into the narration, and was a joy to listen to.

I cannot speak to the accents , it has been a long long time since I have been to Paris, my impression of my time there was that the French spoken in Paris is harsher and more clipped than where I learnt french in Marseille, so will leave that topic to other reviewers, but to my untrained ear it still sound d far far better than the rediculous northern Irish of the first book ( set in Ireland, not Northern Ireland)

The dreaded snoozefest of appaling overly long-winded descriptions were also thankfully missing in this book.


I whizzed through this book and am off to buy the third.

if you are a fan of DI Tanner, this is a softer, more thoughtful series. I would also recommend skipping t he e first book entirely the only 2 salient points buried in that awful time are covered in the second book do there really is no need to torture yourselves or indeed put you off this series entirely.
you can always skip back to it later, once you get the good stuff, to make sure you didn't miss anything, and I think you will agree you haven't by skipping the first book.

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Alex strikes again

Alex goes to Paris. He meets women galour and deals with the police and high fashion as easily as everything else he does. He is struggling with nightmares. He keeps hearing his mother's voice. He discovers something interesting about his patient or is that patients. Love the twists and turns. The ending is really good. Enjoy.

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Throughly enjoyed this book, fascinating!

Such an interesting, intriguing read. Struggled with the french names, following who was who!
But that did not deter from the excellent story!

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Bit disappointed

I was so looking forward to this second book in L J Ross’s new series about Dr Alexander Gregory but I’m afraid to say that it just didn’t grip me. Fairly early in the book I guessed what might have happened (I won’t go into detail because of spoilers). I didn’t guess the whole of it but was right on three or four points. Hugh Dancy is an excellent narrator, his French accent is really good but I found myself zoning out and having to recap having lost track of the storyline. I will try the next one which I believe is due out in February but hope that DCI Ryan will be back with his team in a new, full length book. I’m afraid Dr Gregory is coming in second best for me. Sorry !

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Brilliant

I believe this to be the best of all his books I have read so far. A complex story based around a profiler with a great talent for his work. The author shows a great understanding for the complexities of the mind .

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Book 2

Another great read from author LJRoss. On to book 3 and the intrigue of get another case.

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