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Blind Spot (A John Handful Novel Mystery)

The John Handful Mysteries, Book 1

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Blind Spot (A John Handful Novel Mystery)

By: Andrew Hixson
Narrated by: R.E.Harter
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When a body is found at the foot of a cliff, the local Suffolk Constabulary calls in their consulting lateral thinking detective to help. There are many unanswered questions. Why did a man with impaired vision use a dangerous path as a route to work? If he did use the path every day, no matter what the weather, how come he suddenly fell? With plenty of red herrings and twists to keep the listener guessing.

Blind Spot: A Bell Rings - A Rope Breaks - A Man Dies.

©2017 Andrew Hixson (P)2019 Andrew Hixson Genre Fiction Mystery Psychological Thriller & Suspense Traditional Detectives Exciting
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I have a lot of Andrew Hudson audio books that are all 5 out of 5

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Enjoyed this audio book very much from start to finish great story line too
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enjoyable book

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This was an interesting short story. I liked the whole idea that the detective was never sure if it was murder or an accident. It reminds me of an old fashion murder mystery and very English (not sure when it was supposed to have been set). I don't think you got very much back ground story (I don't think you were ever told why he became a P.I. or if you did I missed it) but the plot wasn't very complicated, so it wouldn't have worked if it had been any longer. I liked all the big clues left so you could reach the same conclusion as John and with no twists it was easy to get there. A good start though to a new series.
John Handful has been called in to consult when a body is found on the beach. The dead man worked for John's finance and is quickly identify when she calls John worried about her visually impaired employee not turning up for work. She knew he liked to walk on the cliffs and he had never missed a day before. Was he pushed or was it an accident?
I didn't really like the narrator. He was to gruff and just didn't have enough range of voices for the characters, this meant they all tended to sound very similar.
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A interesting and well written plot. The main character works well .
This book has good characters and a good plot. An old fashioned mystery who done it.

mystery

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This short story is a good start to a series with an interesting and well written plot. The main character works well but he seems to do more work than the police, who called him in before they even tried to solve the mystery/crime themselves.

I solved the main mystery much quicker than John Handful though so I kept waiting for him to catch up. Also, there was too much description of the sky & sea than was necessary as well as the completely unnecessary cookery lesson detailing how to make breakfast. That seemed like nothing more than space filler and I half expected to be told about the pattern on the plates and how many mouthfuls of scrambled eggs they each ate.

I have to wonder why John's girlfriend is always introduced as Kimberley Ashlyn Gere. Is it ever normal to introduce people with all their first names? Surely just Kimberley Gere would be more natural. Nobody introduces the Black Widow actress as Scarlett Ingrid Johansson or the Game of Thrones star as Emilia Isobel Euphemia Rose Clarke do they? I actually thought it was a hyphenated surname at first.

I'm not too keen on the narration much as the performer often seems to be shouting his conversations for no apparent reason and while one character states he's not yet an octogenarian, the performer often sounds like exactly that. Also his pronunciation of some words made me cringe, such as Quay should be pronounced KEE not KWAY and Zoe is pronounced ZOH + EE not ZOH, at least in British english. Maybe it's a regional thing but it's not normal.

I'm still keen to try other books in the series as I've checked that other, hopefully better, narrators are used.

I received a free copy of this audiobook either from the author or a promotion or giveaway and am voluntarily writing an honest and unbiased review.

Worth a listen but needs a better narrator

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