Good story

This book was spoilt a little for me because of the wild fluctuations in volume, I don't know if it was the reader or the mechanics but despite that an enjoyable book with a decent story line. Nice easy listening.

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Dreadful narration

I started series after listening to Calladine and Baylis by the same author. I loved that series and the narration by Jonathan Keeble was first class. He was always going to be a hard act to follow. As others have said the narration on this series is seriously bad. I have listened to a lot of books and never found any books that I was going to send back because of the narration but this came very very close. It was just so hard to listen to. The voices were bad but the worse thing was the emphasis was put in all the wrong places it was just how you read to young children. I’m glad I persevered as the storyline was good and it’s good to find the story of Greco prior to the Calladine series. The narration is just about bearable now so on to the next book.

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sound

poor sound quality. extremely hard to listen to as voice very quiet although had my phone on full volume 😕

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absorbing

took a while to get it but once I did I was hooked. loved it.

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Enjoyable introduction to a new series

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.

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Poor recording

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

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"Eyes."

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

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Find this Narrator hard work

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.

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nicely introduced the facts to build the story

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

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Story ok, narrator absolutely dreadful

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 🤷🏼‍♀️

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