Smoke and Whispers

De: Mick Herron

Narrado por: Julia Franklin

When a body is hauled from the River Tyne, Sarah Tucker heads to Newcastle for a closer look. She identifies the dead woman as Private Detective Zoë Boehm, but putting a name to the corpse only raises further questions. Did Zoë kill herself, or did one of her old cases come back to haunt her?

Coincidence is an excuse that soon appears pretty unconvincing. Sarah can’t leave until she’s found the answers to her questions, however dangerous they might turn out to be.

©2009 Mick Herron (P)2020 Isis Publishing Ltd

Riveting storytelling

Nick Herron. Makes you wonder who "he" is - characters are aptly drawn and have a familiar voice. Excellent little tale

Enjoyed but no Slow Horses

I found the main character, Sarah, just a little annoying at times, and I didn’t really follow all of her thinking that kept her hanging around. The end of the book made sense, just not particularly how Sarah got there. Maybe I was distracted during the listening so it might be me.

Not Slough house

I have listened to all the slough house books and really looked them. the story here was ok, but I found the reader distractingly poor

Favorite one of the series yet

Fun plot lines, interesting characters, and a thoroughly compelling situation. Julia Franklin rocks the performance as usual. Highly recommend!

Great ending

Another great book in this series, and a fantastic wrap up. The narrator is once again phenomenal!!

Psychologically intense, comedically entertaining

Mick Herron does a tremendous job of taking us inside the thoughts of the main character. She is not a superhero, but an emotionally and intellectually flawed woman dealing with problems almost beyond her grasp. She makes mistakes -- and we are aware of them most of the time -- but we ride along inside her head on the wave of Herron's delightful and often hilarious prose. There is little action, but a great deal of tension in the book. And, despite her problems, the main character turns out to be stronger and smarter than we, or she, thinks she is.

Julia Franklin did a great job of differentiating the characters vocally. And her almost over-the-top performance of the main character's internal monologues perfectly emphasized how the character was frequently almost overtaken by surprise, doubt, wonder, anger, or what-have-you. I loved it.

Like author but this was a stinker

Terrible story line kept waiting (unsuccessfully) for it to get better. Couldn’t take the main character Sarah Rogers. A total waste of money and my time

What a disappointment

Are plot lots of character studies and little sympathy for narrator much less anyone else. Love Herron’s books but this is so disappointing

Too Much Talk!

Much ado about nothing! Well- performed narration. Too much talking; little action; no suspense. Chickflickery.

Tedious

The language is evocative as with all of Herron’s writing - that I have read - but the plot was too convoluted and the main character not likable. I plodded through but was relieved when it was over.