Another gruesome delight!

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

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Good, but

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

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Excellent read

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

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Good novel to "binge" listen.

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

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Great read

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

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I too found the narrator's sound very harsh.

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.

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Another good La Plante …

… 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!

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Great story spoiled by narrator

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/

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A Book That Has You Gripped To The Last

I had thought Above Suspicion was excellent but my word, like the Harry Potter Series, the Red Dahlia was better than the first in this series. It is a book which just holds you from the very beginning where a paper boy finds the mutilated body of a 22 year old girl to the very last word. In this book James Langton and Anna Travis are after a ruthless killer who is feared even by the members of his household and for a long time during the investigation it's "one step forward, two steps Back" to quote Langton, at last they do get a small light and, after that it moves at a quicker pace and you are held gripped, unable to leave the book until it's finished. I thoroughly enjoyed it and once again Kristin Atherton does a fantastic job at keeping the listener held to the last. I certainly don't regret purchasing these first two books and look forward to the others.

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.Enjoyable read but ???

Why is a DI constantly asking permission, of much junior ranks, to cary out her job and who show her rank little repect ?

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