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Down Cemetery Road
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
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Summary
When a house explodes in a quiet Oxford suburb and a young girl disappears in the aftermath, Sarah Tucker becomes obsessed with finding her. Accustomed to dull chores in a childless household and hosting her husband’s wearisome business clients for dinner, Sarah suddenly finds herself questioning everything she thought she knew, as her investigation reveals that people long believed dead are still among the living, while the living are fast joining the dead.
What begins in a peaceful neighbourhood reaches its climax on a remote, unwelcoming Scottish island as the search puts Sarah in league with a man who finds himself being hunted down by murderous official forces.
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- mrs trudi n hughes
- 09-01-23
Brilliant!
Superb story. Gripping all the way through. Best listened at 0,9 speed. Mick Herron is a master storyteller.
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- SANDI LAMB
- 24-06-24
Witty but unfocused
Mick Herron's style is witty, descriptive with often beautiful use of language, but the plot of this book doesn't work. Why is Sarah obsessed with finding a girl she doesn't know and who are the players involved? Lots of pointless murders and an unsatisfactory ending. Disappointing
The narration is slightly exaggerated but you get used to it.
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- Amazon Customer
- 24-01-24
Not his best
It might be worth reading the physical book but the narrator sounds like she's reading an Agatha Raisin book. The first book ever that I couldn't listen to.
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- ThickJock
- 18-09-24
Ruined by the narration
As a huge fan of Mick Herron I am not sure if this was a weaker than normal book or whether the narration was so off the mark that it just felt like that. Especially when the usual narrator, Sean Barrett, reads Mike Herron’s work so brilliantly. This felt like we were being read a children’s bed time story in a particularly patronising manner.
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- Miss
- 03-09-20
Hoped for more, narration could've been better
The story was a bit slow at first but then developed. The main character came across as being a bit drippy but that may have been due to the narrator's voice and delivery, both of which I disliked.
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- Jonathan Perkins
- 21-02-24
Good but overly long story; awful narration
I like the Slough House books a lot. This has much good stuff but is overly drawn out.
The narration however is appalling. Really weird inflection on the words; all the male characters get the same gruff, sardonic voice. I was very tempted to give up.
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- Buttons26
- 06-03-21
An interesting start
Apart from a longish and fairly turgid recounting of a drug taking event from student days the story rolled along well. It’s possible to find glimmers of the future brilliance and bare outlines of figures to come, though in different guises.
The narrator coped well with a difficult task. Giving each character a different voice / vocal tone can’t have been easy. Whilst some grated rather, that’s probably the way voices are in real life.
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- ThePuss
- 22-04-21
A slow start, but a good story
I assume the characters will get to better things. I've come to this from Slough House, like others. It's a different sort of story so I'm prepared to try the next one in the series, after a break...
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- KeBo
- 16-02-23
Overall good
Interesting story and characters good narration. What threw me off is the persistent stomach growling in chapter 12&13. Are you feeding your narrators and editors properly?
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- ellie carr
- 11-03-24
Poor narration interferes with story
Good enough story, maybe not as good as Slow Horses, but Mick Herron remains a master storyteller. The narration however really interfered with enjoyment. Irritating rising inflection at end of sentences; laboured yet oddly placed emphasis throughout; Herron’s deadpan humour often reduced by same; poor male voices generally, some female voices sounding essentially like overgrown children. A real shame.
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