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The Red Dahlia

Anna Travis, Book 2

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The Red Dahlia

By: Lynda La Plante
Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
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Detective Anna Travis is investigating the brutal murder of a young woman whose body was discovered in the Thames, brutalised and severed in half, a red flower in her hair.

With the case bearing an eerie resemblance to the famous unsolved murder case of Elizabeth Short—known as the Black Dahlia—media interest intensifies, and fears of a copycat take hold. But with almost no clues, the case is slowly going cold. That is until the killer reaches out to the press....

Determined to solve the case, Anna must keep her wits about her before the sadistic killer takes his next victim.

©2022 Lynda La Plante (P)2022 Bonnier Books UK Crime Thrillers Detective Fiction Mystery Police Procedural Thriller & Suspense Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Thriller Crime Scary Suspense

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Funny, I can’t watch things like this on TV but I relish the gore and ‘jumps scares’ via audio! Lynda La Plante is such a good writer and it’s not until you listen to other authors you realise just how skilled she is at crafting a great story. One minute you’re there with Anna as she chooses her outfit and the next there’s some gross body part being excavated. Perfect to lift a dreary commute or housework routine.

Bounced from part 1 to this one and about to download part 3. Keep raving about it to people as I love the 90s aspect of it too

Another gruesome delight!

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I have nothing but praise for this book, other than Langtons anger issues.
Hearing them is quite triggering and distressing.

Good, but

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Well written , well read kept you guessing all the way through . Loved all the characters . Good crime thriller well worth a read

Excellent read

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The descriptive writing and the reader's ability to help you create the characters in your imagination.

Good novel to "binge" listen.

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Classic LLP great characters and very well narrated. Looking forward to the next one in the series.

Fabulous

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Story is great, and narration mostly good HOWEVER I’m not sure how we are supposed to like Langton when every time he speaks it’s a snap or a shout. I flinched every time he was talking. Borderline abusive every time he spoke, even if it wasn’t necessarily supposed to be.
Otherwise amazing!

Great story

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Excellent story as always , very well read. Can wait to get the next one downloaded,

Great read

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The story, far stretched as it was, kept me listening but the narrators voice for Langton was overly harsh and shouting. The character written for him was far too impatient, especially when others, most notably Ann Travis were trying to pass him relevant information. At those times, which were far too frequent, his character was unbearable. I do not think that the stress of trying to solve such a horrific case was enough to explain this characteristic. Will not go out of my way to listen to another book like this and certainly not by this narrator.

I too found the narrator's sound very harsh.

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… although I do get annoyed at the continual use of surnames and the fact that the detective branch is portrayed as senior. In real life that is very much not the case and patrol officers do not chauffeur the detectives around. If that had even been suggested in the force, the DCs or whoever asking would have been laughed all the way to the garage and told to get a set of wheels for themselves!

Another good La Plante …

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Lynda La Plant is a great writer and I've read/ listened to many of her books. I enjoyed the first book in this series in which DCI Langton is somewhat irrascible, however, the narrator makes him ridculously rude in this second book which has runied the book for me. It's not just his words but the way she speaks them vastly overdoes the impact, not least it makes wearing hearphones painful at times/

Great story spoiled by narrator

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