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The Crossing

Detective Louise Blackwell, Book 1

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The Crossing

By: Matt Brolly
Narrated by: Danielle Cohen
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An Amazon Charts bestseller.

In a small town full of secrets, everyone’s a suspect.

When a body is discovered, bled dry on a beach, the sleepy seaside town of Weston-super-Mare wakes up to a nightmare. For Detective Inspector Louise Blackwell, recently transferred to the town she last saw as a child, it’s her first case on the job.

The victim - Veronica Lloyd, an elderly volunteer at a local church - has puncture wounds to her hands. When a priest is found killed in a nearby church in a similarly grisly condition, it becomes clear that Blackwell is dealing with a righteous and bloody murderer. But the victims aren’t random. The killer has a vendetta and is hell-bent on exacting twisted revenge for a dark secret dating back years - and there are more murders planned.

As the body count rises, Blackwell faces a race against time to solve the mystery of the murderer’s identity and put an end to the carnage. She thought she knew Weston, but the town holds more secrets than she’d ever have imagined. Who can she trust and who knows more than they are letting on?

She must discover the crimes that unite the victims - before it’s too late.

©2020 Matthew Brolly (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.
Crime Thrillers Detective Fiction Mystery Police Procedural Thriller & Suspense Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Thriller British Detective

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worth the read

This book was so easy to follow particularly as I live have lived n the area.

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Really Enjoyed This Book

Best listen for me in a long while. Will seek out the rest of the series. we'll read. Great plot. which I followed easily (rare fir me!).

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very good

great narrator is really brought it alive great plot and characters would recommend to others

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A different and engaging story

I really enjoyed this book, a very different story. Sadly I didn’t think the narrator was right for this type of book, a nice voice which I think would be better for romance, but that’s just my perspective.

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Enjoyable

I enjoyed the story but the narrator grated on me a bit with her accents, which ruined it for me

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*Slow Paced Drama*

This is the first book in the DI Louise Blackwell series.
This feels like how I would imagine it to be in a police station. Louise was on her way to becoming a DCI in the MIT. Her partner at the time whilst on a case together made a call that caused Louise to shoot someone. This case went against her because there were two versions of the story and it meant she was sent to a force far quieter force and losing the promotion.

The pace of the book is much slower than some of the crime books I have read but I thinks it’s deliberate to match the slow paced force she ends up in with mainly minor offences, until a murder occurs….

This case sparks Louise’s interest and as the case becomes interesting her ex partner now a DCI in her old force wants to take it over and it means Louise could possibly lose the case.

Will Louise keep the case? As more bodies appear will the killer be caught before the last kill that the killer thinks will mean atonement for what happened with his father which I won’t reveal…..

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Serviceable

Nothing to stand out in this one. Neither Louise or her team inspired a great deal of empathy and I found her past problems somewhat irritating. I listened to the whole book and whilst it didn't set the world alight it was a reasonable listen. Unlikely I will go on to the rest of the series.

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Not the narrator for me

halfway through and am having to fight to carry on. the narration if just irritating, I don't mean offence to the reader but the voices and overall tone do nothing to excite the listener. A very slow moving story but am holding out for a plot twist at the end!

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First book in series and really enjoyable.

I will be downloading the next in this series. I found the authors first in series a real treat, I always like to read detective series I enjoy Joy Ellis, J L Ross and Rachel Abbots Detective series and this Author I will add to those too. The Narrator Danielle Cohen was excellent too.

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Great book

I enjoyed the descriptions, dialogue, and action. The police procedure is authentic enough to be believe able. It’s a well thought out plot.

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