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No Known Grave
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
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Summary
From the well-known author whose books inspired the wildly popular Murdoch Mysteries TV series, comes the third WWII-era DI Tom Tyler mystery; for fans of Foyle's War, wartime dramas, and, of course, Maureen Jennings!
It's summer, 1942, and after a tough couple of years, DI Tom Tyler is making a fresh start in Ludlow, Shropshire. On the outskirts of town, St. Anne's Convalescent Hospital, staffed by nursing sisters who are Anglican nuns, has been established in an old manor house to help victims of the war to recover. After a horrifying double murder is discovered on the grounds, Tyler must figure out how the crime could have occurred in such a secluded and presumably impenetrable place, where most of the patients are unable to walk or are blind, or both, not to mention deeply traumatized. To add to the puzzle, Tyler begins almost immediately to receive mysterious letters recounting terrible crimes far away. He realizes that he is not only seeking the murderer, but that the horrors of the war are closing in on this place that was meant to be a refuge.
Maureen Jennings, beloved author of the Murdoch novels that inspired the popular TV series (known as The Artful Detective in the US), surpasses herself in this vivid portrayal of wartime Britain, brilliantly blending a classic murder mystery with a deeply human story of how the effects of war live on far from the fields of battle.
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- Amazon Customer
- 20-11-21
Interesting story
Unusual subject of post WW1 convalescent and rehabilitative unit. Characters well drawn, details considered, plot intriguing.
The narrator is not right for this: presumably American so many English words pronounced for the US and idiomatic language entirely mispronounced. The accents are inconsistent and inaccurate.
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- Mr. B. Thompson
- 13-10-21
Only average
I found that despite a promising start the plot was rather weak and failed to grip the attention...
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- Mobbster
- 05-10-21
Strange narration style
Quite an enjoyable story.
Very strange narration though, I was distracted by the way the narrator pronounced words such as “calm,” “Hearth”, “address”, and even the word “narrator” itself.
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- The Curator
- 29-09-21
Uncomfortable reading
I read a lot of historical novels and they often feature real people and, of course, you can’t libel the dead but using the men of the central operation in this story, real names or not, sat uncomfortably with me. I’m sure many will say it’s no different to other books set in WW2 and they may well be right, but for me personally, it left a bad taste in my mouth.
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- Anonymous User
- 16-11-21
Good
I found that despite a promising start the plot was rather weak and failed to grip the attention...
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- julianne
- 24-11-21
Good but confusing
The book was all over the place. Great author though. Narrator did a great job of the voices
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- amber14
- 16-11-21
probably a good story
Couldn't rate this any higher which is a shame because it's probably a good story but after two tries at listening to it I couldn't get past chapter 8 on either goes. The narrator was so dreadful it ruined any listening pleasure.
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- Fothergill
- 21-11-21
Irritating naration
Jennings tells a good story, but… it is quite predictable, and the monotonous, sometime tedious,and somewhat smug narration, squeezes out any hope for improvement along the way, I am sure his family loves
The baritone sound, but it never changes, whoever and whatever he is describing or emotion he is implying?
Ms Jennings is not served well by this narrator, who
Imagines he is speaking, a lot of the time anyway, with aShropshire ‘burr’, I might boldly suggest he takes a very pleasant trip to Ludlow, and its glorious Welsh border surroundings, and very friendly population, and
Listen to those other, authentic purring pronunciations, of the Shropshire variety! Instead of exposing us to his idea of more, of his somewhat herniated rural english, or even stick to what he is good at, after all this is AUDIBLE !!!
Ps I speak as someone who lived there, for a significant time, and regularly goes back.
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- Gerard
- 26-09-21
A ghastly beginning
This book is singular for its horrible beginning lines. I wonder that the author/editor thought it advisable to welcome the reader with such unpleasantness. It’s enough for me …. No more needs to be said.
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