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Dark Murder

DCI Greco, Book 1

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Dark Murder

By: Helen H. Durrant
Narrated by: Nicholas Camm
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A woman is found dead by a canal. Her eyes have been poked out.

Detective Stephen Greco has just started his job at Oldston CID and is faced with several murders with no obvious connection except for the murderer's penchant for disfigurement. His team are crumbling under the pressure; he doesn't know whom he can trust. Can Greco regain composure and control in order to stop the murders?

©2015 Helen H. Durrant (P)2017 W. F. Howes Ltd Crime Crime Fiction Murder Mystery Police Procedural Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction

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I enjoyed this book, and the narrator, once I got used to his somewhat heavy voice. The lead character sometimes comes across as rather gloomy. But then he has his reasons.

Enjoyable introduction to a new series

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Story OK, what I could hear of it... Huge dynamic range, mumbly narrator made it impossible to listen to in the car.

Poor recording

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I have enjoyed the complete series of Calladine and Bayliss books by this author. I downloaded 3 DCI Greco books and was looking forward to enjoying listening to them. I find the narators voice annoying, it goes soft and low half way through each sentence making it difficult to hear.

Find this Narrator hard work

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good background to the build the backstory to increase the intriguing story line pull you into the intrig of the story line

nicely introduced the facts to build the story

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D C I Stephen Greco, has newly arrived at the CID office in Oldston. His team is small, with mixed enthusiasms, and has to be quickly pulled together with the finding of the mutilated body of a woman by the canal side. The reader is introduced to each of the team members and their individual problems as well as those of Greco himself - recently divorced, he has mild OCD and finds it difficult to cope when his ex wife unexpectedly leaves their daughter with him to look after.

The book is quite short, the characters well drawn and the dialogue very plausible. narrator Nicholas Camm further increases this aspect by giving individual and easily identifiable voice to each protagonist. His performance definitely enhanced the overall enjoyment of this story. However, the murder mystery itself seemed more contrived and the introductory '15 years before' preface would have been better replaced with extra time and explanation being infused into the conclusion. The whole also suffers from an annoying variation in the playback volume which definitely reduces its star rating.

An interesting start to a new police procedural series and one I will probably continue to follow at least into book two

"Eyes."

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Story was ok, nothing more, nothing less, but sadly read by one of the worst narrators I’ve listened to … zero consistency in accents for each character, the lead detective who was allegedly from Norfolk swung from having a West Country accent to at one point an American drawl … unbelievable! Had I paid to listen I would’ve been sending it back for a refund of my credit! Real shame 🤷🏼‍♀️

Story ok, narrator absolutely dreadful

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I liked that l understood the storyline and l was able to follow quite easily-easy listening

Good case

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fast paced action, good reader overall a very enjoyable listening, made me hold my breath, also a bit grisly description edge of your seat stuff.

enjoyed

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I have read some of Helen's books and loved them so thought I had better start at the beginning of this series.

The book is a very well written story which kept me hooked all the way through, even though I did guess who the murderer was about half way through, I just didn't know who else would die and whether they would get away with it or not.

The narration was also very good and it was easy to distinguish between characters as well as their voices being consistent all the way through

Brilliant 5 star audio book

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Very poor sound quality, partly due to narrators voice! It's so low at times it can't be heard!! Story ok but the poor sound spoilt it for me!!!

Very poor sound quality!

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