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Dead in the Water

By: Penny Farmer
Narrated by: Ian Porter, Tessa Gallagher
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'A real-life page turner more intriguing than anything on Netflix..' Matt Nixson, Mail on Sunday

'[A story] almost too mad to make up, too good not to tell.' Ben Dirs, BBC World News

In July 1978, two bodies were discovered in the sea off Guatemala. They were found to be the remains of Chris Farmer and his girlfriend Peta Frampton, two young British graduates. Having been beaten and tortured, then thrown, still alive, into the sea, their bodies had been weighted down and dumped from the yacht on which they had been crewing. For nearly forty years, no one was charged with these brutal murders.

This is the shocking and compelling story of how Chris's sister, Penny, and her family tracked down his and Peta's killer. For decades they painstakingly gathered evidence against Silas Boston, the yacht's American owner, working alongside police in the UK and the USA, as well as the FBI, until he was finally arrested and charged with two counts of murder in 2016. Astonishingly, Penny was able to track down Boston's son, whose bravery in testifying against his own father was the key to bringing down Chris and Peta's killer after so many years.

Dead In The Water is the story of a murder almost unimaginable in its cruelty and one ordinary woman's unwavering determination to find justice for her brother.

Chosen by O, The Oprah magazine, as one of its top twenty best true crime books of all time.

'[A] moving debut... This engrossing, heartbreaking story is sure to appeal to true-crime fans'. Publishers Weekly

©2018 Penny Farmer (P)2018 Bonnier Publishing
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I thought the book would be less interesting because I new the back story. I was wrong!! Apart from the terrible way in which the author's brother and his girlfriend died, it was an extremely compelling book. The number of bungles by police and then the series of extraordinary coincidences to finally, nearly get justice. A consolation is that Boston would have really suffered with his choice of death.

Listened to Paradise then listened to the book.

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I found out about this book via the podcast, Paradise, about the same case. This book seemed to repeat itself a lot, reminded me a bit of a GCSE essay.

Interesting case though.

Paradise podcast is better

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the narration is fine, and an American reader is employed for the American speakers featured in the text.

excellent

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I hate to be one of those that complains about the narration but it just does not gel with me and I think it’s quite badly written and the combination of the two is not great, in another review it stated it’s Gcse writen standard and that is accurate, it’s a shame as I think the story is very good I just could not get to the end of the book

I just could not get to the end

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The story is fine but the prose is not very good. If you are going to use a northern accent for the narration please don't make such a mess of the American accents. Pick a person who can do a northern accent AND other accents. So, a low mark for the narration.

Spun out for too long at the end

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