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Michael Connelly just gets better and better

Revisado: 01-24-18

Harry B is a character that has grown and matured over time. The plot is clever, the dialogue as written and narrated is pitch perfect. Michael Connelly does it again.

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Ready to move to Shetland, for the summer anyway

Revisado: 02-29-16

I won't be spoiler but I will say I was dismayed about the ending of the prior book in this series, which seemed gratuitous and harsh. Having said that, this story picks up smoothly and continues to develop the main characters while adding an interesting new face to the mix. The story is well developed and the descriptions of the islands make you feel you could be there. I loved loved loved the narration. The range and nuance of the accents was lovely and engaging and pitch perfect. This is a great addition to the series, no disappointments.

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Loved the story, wanted to strangle the narrator

Revisado: 02-29-16

This is a serious story about a man wrestling with the loss of his teenage son, the end of his marriage, and his choices about giving up drinking. The narrator delivered most of the book with a relentlessly and often inappropriately cheerful tone of voice, the kind of upbeat phony tone that people who don't have children use when talking to children. His voices for the children in the story were particularly awful and squeaky.

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Disappointment in the series

Revisado: 09-29-14

Just how much can a person say with his eyes and his demeanor? The constant references to how much each character can intuit from the look of another character approach clairvoyance. The story line is not credible and if I had to hear one more reference to how a certain series of paintings made the characters feel sick, I would start to feel sick myself. The fear with which Armand approaches the problem he is asked to solve does not make sense. Now that he has retired, maybe it is time for the story line to be retired, much as I love Three Pines. The narrator is good, as always.

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Dated

Revisado: 03-29-14

The facts of the story are a bit dated (still using pay phones and the computer screen savers are flying toasters) but Michael Connelly does not disappoint with plot development and characters. The narrator is a disappointment, excessive and overacting.

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Michael Connelly is at the top of his game

Revisado: 12-28-13

The story and narration are excellent. The author's detailed and realistic portrayal of the work of a criminal defense lawyer are flawless, reminding me of another great portrayal on the other side of the court room, the books by Scott Turow. The narration is pitch perfect. This was so good I looked for trips to take in my car so I could keep listening.

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Horrible narrator

Revisado: 11-17-13

The story is good and I know that Audible changed narrators for this series for the later books. I wish the middle-of-the-series books were available and I refuse to listen to anything else that Mr. Gillies recorded so I will have to read the next few in this series until I can catch up to where the Audible recordings begin again.

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The best of the recent in this series

Revisado: 11-17-13

This is for the fans who have kept up with the lives and travails of the characters in the entire series. I think it wouldn't make a lot of sense if you didn't know the back stories. The plot development and story line is one of the best of the last few in this series, with a good dramatically satisfying ending. The narrator has become Inspector Gamache, and he does a good job with the other characters as well.

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Narration not up to the job

Revisado: 09-22-13

The story was as good as any Donna Leon has written about our favorite Venetian detective. But why, why, why did Audible select someone with a pretentious British accent for this book when it cried out for an Italian one. Only the names are said in an Italian style but are so exaggerated that the names sound like a sarcastic joke.

I have read every book in this series but never listened to one before. I am going back to the written version for so long as this narrator -- who no doubt would be fine for other novels, say Jane Austen -- is reading them. It really detracted from my enjoyment of the story.

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One of the best new detective characters ever

Revisado: 08-25-13

If you didn't know that JK Rowling had written this book, you would never guess insofar as it is gritty realism, not fantasy. But what the book has in common with its famous half-siblings is the detailed recreation of an entire world of places and relationships, with realistically flawed but compelling characters, the most enjoyable of whom is Strike, the main protagonist. The author also reveals the back story of the characters slowly and with complexity. The resolution of the murder itself is not particularly stunning (in fact, I thought it was the weakest aspect of the book but can't say why or it would ruin the ending) -- but I really loved the characters and I was sorry when the book ended. The narration is excellent. I look forward to more in what I hope will be a long series.

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