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George Orlando
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Chris Dolley
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Peter Shand is the 'safe pair of hands' - a high-flying police administrator seconded to a quiet rural CID team to gain the operational experience he needs for promotion. On his second day he's thrust into a high-profile murder case. A woman's body is discovered in an old stone circle - with another woman buried alive beneath her.
The pressure on Shand is enormous.The media is clamoring for answers, but everything about the case is baffling. Then a local journalist singles out Shand as the reason for the lack of progress, and goads him at a press conference. Shand responds by inventing a lead, andkeeps on lying - to the press, his boss, his team - telling himself that he'll solve the case before anyone finds out. And then another murder occurs. And had there been a third?
Shand begins to doubt his ability. He's desperate, increasingly unpredictable, pursued by an amorous psychic, and somehow gaining a reputation for arresting livestock. Which will break first? The case, or Shand? Chris Dolley is a New York Times best-selling author.
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De: Jane Casey
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The Last Detective
- An Inspector Peter Diamond Investigation
- De: Peter Lovesey
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
- Duración: 11 h y 28 m
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Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond is the last detective: a genuine gumshoe, committed to door-stopping and deduction rather than fancy computer gadgetry. So when the naked body of a woman is found floating in the weeds in a lake near Bath with no one willing to identify her, no marks, and no murder weapon, his sleuthing abilities are tested to the limit.
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Pleasantly surprised -- loved Inspector Diamond!
- De Tracey en 01-06-13
De: Peter Lovesey
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Blue Monday
- Frieda Klein, Book 1
- De: Nicci French
- Narrado por: Beth Chalmers
- Duración: 11 h y 11 m
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Frieda Klein is a solitary, incisive psychotherapist who spends her sleepless nights walking along the ancient rivers that have been forced underground in modern London. She believes that the world is a messy, uncontrollable place. The abduction of five-year-old Matthew Farraday provokes a national outcry and a desperate police hunt. And when his face is splashed over the newspapers, Frieda cannot ignore the coincidence: one of her patients has been having dreams in which he has a hunger for just such a child.
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Engrossing thriller - an easy "read"
- De Hilary en 08-15-13
De: Nicci French
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No Name Lane
- De: Howard Linskey
- Narrado por: David Leon
- Duración: 12 h y 53 m
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The hunt for a serial killer unearths an unsolved cold case from over 60 years ago. Young girls are being abducted and murdered in the Northeast. Out of favour detective constable Ian Bradshaw struggles to find any leads - and fears that the only thing this investigation will unravel is himself. Journalist Tom Carney is suspended by his London tabloid and returns to his home village in County Durham. Helen Norton is the reporter who replaced Tom on the local newspaper. Together they are drawn into a case that will change their lives forever.
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A Lot to Like, but Weak Narration
- De Carole T. en 07-18-16
De: Howard Linskey
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Blood Atonement
- De: Dan Waddell
- Narrado por: Colin Mace
- Duración: 9 h y 29 m
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A body is discovered with her throat cut and her daughter believed missing. DCI Foster quickly sees parallels with the disappearance of a teenager three years earlier. With hopes fading, he calls on genealogist Nigel Barnes to piece together the links between the families of the two girls. The trail leads back to 1890, and a young couple fleeing a terrible crime in their past....
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Superb
- De Madeleine en 04-13-10
De: Dan Waddell
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Mystery Man
- De: Colin Bateman
- Narrado por: Stephen Armstrong
- Duración: 9 h y 36 m
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He’s the Man With No Name and the owner of No Alibis, a mystery bookshop in Belfast. But when a detective agency next door goes bust, the agency’s clients start calling into his shop asking him to solve their cases. It’s not as if there’s any danger involved. It’s an easy way to sell books to his gullible customers and Alison, the beautiful girl in the jewellery shop across the road, will surely be impressed. Except she’s not – because she can see the bigger picture.
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Mystery, humor & literary nuances - GREAT
- De Toby en 09-06-13
De: Colin Bateman
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The Big Over Easy
- A Nursery Crime
- De: Jasper Fforde
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
- Duración: 11 h y 40 m
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It's Easter in Reading, a bad time for eggs, and no one can remember the last sunny day. Ovoid D-class nursery celebrity Humpty Stuyvesant Van Dumpty III, minor baronet, ex-convict, and former millionaire philanthropist, is found shattered to death beneath a wall in a shabby area of town. All the evidence points to his ex-wife, who has conveniently shot herself.
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Total Whimsy
- De Bruce Sabin en 08-10-05
De: Jasper Fforde
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- Sires
- 02-05-14
Good Story, Below Par Narration
Peter Shand was in his current position because he needed some hands on experience as an investigator. Until now all of his police work had involved administrative evaluation of cases handled by other CID officers. While he was excellent at what he did it did not prepare him for what would happen when the quiet rural patch he had been sent to would become the center of a media frenzy when a woman's body is found in the center of a stone circle with another woman buried alive beneath her.
He also finds that far from peaceful, the village has a simmering underbelly where incomers are fighting with villagers for control, where the weapons are Parish Counsel elections, livestock, and local legends.
The book was quite fun as poor Peter struggles to get his feet under him as he deals with a local psychic, a malicious reporter, and another murder.
The only problem I had was with the narrator. While he wasn't terrible in the sense that you could clearly understand his voice except when he came up with some very peculiar pronunciations of "denouement" and "assuage". He had a middle of the road US accent except when he assayed some truly dreadful local accents-- I had no idea what part of the UK he was aiming for with these. Given the book was set in England this was distracting and did the book a disfavor.
Luckily this was a whispersynced audible deal because I would have been really annoyed if I had paid more than a couple of dollars for the narration.
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- Suzi B.
- 03-12-21
a British procedural, but....
This story is a cute British procedural read by an American narrator whom I find extremely irritating. His rapid "Joe Friday" style for the protagonist is totally unsuitable for this type of book. His mispronunciation of not uncommon words (assuage and disreputable come quickly to mind) leave you trying to figure out what he meant and the rapid fire delivery leaves you trying to catch up to the story line when you do. I recommend you read this book rather than listen to this audio version.
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-10-19
A really good murder mystery
This murder mystery was very entertaining with lots of plot twists great human insight and a few belly laughs. It is just too bad the narrator rather confidently mispronounced several words.
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- Eclectic
- 12-06-17
Engaging
Could not stop listening. Performance was great, characters were believable and the story flowed smoothly. Very enjoyable.
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- Rosebud
- 09-09-19
Twisty story
Good plot. I enjoyed the hook at the end but was so disappointed with the narrator. So many mispronounced words that I caught myself waiting for them.
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- Jambone
- 11-16-22
Bad Idea
Who decided it would be a good idea to have an American narrate a British novel? A hint: doesn't work.
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- IiKindle Customer
- 01-07-14
Absolutely dreadful combination
What would have made An Unsafe Pair of Hands better?
If a book based in an English village was narrated by someone who spoke in English and pronounced the words properly.
What do you think your next listen will be?
The Purity of Vengeance
What didn’t you like about George Orlando’s performance?
He was American, not English, his attempt at a Scots accent wobbled between Irish and New England.
You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?
The story, as far as I listened, had some potential.
Any additional comments?
I have listened to over a thousand Audible books and while I have truly enjoyed most of them,and also returned a couple or three, this is the first time I have felt it necessary to give my opinion.
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- Lyn
- 11-16-16
Ho-hum story, lackluster narration
What did you like best about An Unsafe Pair of Hands? What did you like least?
Start with a dubious premise: long-time desk cop sent to boonies to get operational expertise; add a lot of hand-wringing internal dialogue; overlay that with an illogical plot; then filter the mixture through a mispronouncing narrator, and you get An Unsafe Pair of Hands.
What didn’t you like about George Orlando’s performance?
George Orlando has a pleasant delivery that's easy to listen to. He doesn't have any idiosyncrasies or verbal tics that distract from the story's flow.
However ...
- His performance is fraught with mispronunciations. Two examples: tableau and denouement, mispronounced every time.
- The story is set in a rural English constabulary, but the narration is (mostly) Midwestern American. That would probably have been tolerable if the entire narration had continued in a Midwestern American accent. (Incongruous, but tolerable.) But ...
- For some reason, Orlando decided to try some "local flavor" accents, with an execrable Scottish brogue for one character and a laughable "London" accent for another. The jarring intrusion of these accents into the "American" flow truly distracted.
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