Janet Davis

I miss George Guidall

Revisado: 10-25-23

I have always enjoyed this series...until this one. I do not enjoy stories of drug cartels, bent agents, and blood-thirsty, vicious killers. Especially when those people win.
I found I had difficulty keeping up with the cast of characters and who was good and who was bad. I lost track of the number killed. Shot in the head. Shot in the face. Shot in the chest. Shot in the gut. Descriptions of videos of torture used to get people to talk. I almost quit when he mentioned the drill bit in the ear. I just clicked to the next chapter because I was about 60% in at that point.
If this were my first McGarrity, I am not sure I would try another.

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Thought-provoking

Revisado: 10-11-22

This story was frightening on so many levels. We saw the Madness of Crowds in Nazi Germany and have witnessed similar things since then.

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Prefer her other series

Revisado: 07-18-22

I truly struggled to stay with this one. I enjoyed her Max Tudor series and was pleased to find another Malliet. I do not like this main character very much and most definitely don't like the locatikn.

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Not the right reader for this series

Revisado: 12-13-16

I have listened to Dick Hill on other books (such as Harry Bosch) and he's fine there. But not on Kearney books. The voices were all wrong and actually got in the way of the story. One sheriff sounded more like a quavering senior citizen, which was very disconcerting.

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Great narrator, but

Revisado: 06-09-16

Too much dwelling on the personal relationship between Josephine and one of the other female characters. It was a discordant note that got in the way of the story (which did seem to drone on and on because of the extraneous stuff). Giving up on Upson.

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So Much Fun!

Revisado: 05-08-16

Tim Goodman did his usual stellar job. This is, of course, a collection of short "cases" from Bryant & May. Each is prefaced with comments from Christopher Fowler about what prompted the story and this just added to the overall enjoyment. Was sorry to get to the end. The author noted that this was a sort trial run for short stories and if this was well-received (it was), then we could see more in the future.

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Too long, way too long and with all that, no end

Revisado: 11-20-15

Be warned - this book is 18 + hours long (which is not a problem), but it does not end. Oh, no, after enduring excessive angst about retrieval teams and time travel drops from all of the main characters, we are left with no conclusion. It just ends. Then, we are told that if we want to find out how our heroes are going to handle their various problems, we must buy the NEXT book. What a ripoff!

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Grim, captivating

Revisado: 09-29-15

I know that many listeners gave this book very high ratings. I did not see any that mentioned how LONG the descriptions of the various atrocities were. Describing the torture and barbaric treatment of the POW's by the Japanese military was important, however, I think that the descriptions went on much too long. I wondered if it were for shock value, and I found myself "fast forwarding" through many minutes of the sessions of subjugation, beating, and torture.

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Annoying, with uneven reading cadence.

Revisado: 01-18-15

I am amazed at women who seem to have no control over their lives and who continue to make stupid decisions. Judy Carrier used to be a strong, quirky character, but in this book, she's indecisive, forgetful, and otherwise just inept. Bello's reading (or the direction?) was uneven in cadence, with mid-sentence pauses that jarred. She used a pronounced slow enunciation during the tense scenes, but it failed to heighten the tension. On the whole, a disappointment, and this from someone who has read nearly all of Scottoline's work.

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Tired of the character

Revisado: 10-03-13

I am giving up on this series. I had high hopes with the first book, but for me, Ruth Galloway has become too much of a silly, weak, insecure character. One wonders how she managed to complete a terminal degree. I would have stopped after book 3 but had already bought #4. We spend entirely too much time in Ruth's head and she has really ridiculous imaginings and flights of fancy. Ridiculous moments of idiotic panic over nothing. A little is fine, but there is too much, almost like filler for filler's sake.
The reader (McDowell) does a fair job with general narration and most of the female voices. But in dialogue and if she has to use emphasis for any of the characters or be forceful/gruff for a male character, it just does not work. They sound hollow.

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