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Murder at Roaringwater

By: Nick Foster
Narrated by: Mark Elstob
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Murder at Roaringwater is the inside story of a young Frenchwoman, Sophie Toscan du Plantier. In this notorious and unresolved crime, the victim seemed to have a premonition of her own terrible end.

Ever since she was violently killed outside her holiday cottage in the remote West Cork countryside just before Christmas in 1996, mystery has surrounded the unresolved case of Sophie Toscan du Plantier.

For six years, author Nick Foster has been painstakingly piecing together her life and death, developing an ongoing ‘friendship’ with the Englishman long-suspected of her murder, Ian Bailey, and his partner, Jules Thomas.

The story follows Foster in Paris and Ireland as he leaves no stone unturned in his quest to reveal the young Frenchwoman’s killer and understand the motives behind such a terrible crime.

©2021 Nick Foster (P)2021 W. F. Howes Ltd Murder Social Sciences True Crime Crime

Critic reviews

"A true-crime tour de force. Foster delivers a forensic and exciting account of this international murder mystery." (Donal Macintyre)
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Compelling story but not helped by a really poor narration. Pronunciations inconsistent and inaccurate for some core elements.

Poor narration

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I thought I knew a fair deal about this intriguing and desperately sad unsolved murder, but Nick Foster provides depth and surprises along the way and I was hooked. His very human reactions alongside his painstaking journalistic work make for a riveting slow burn reveal to his his final conclusion. Would highly recommend.

Insightful and riveting

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Very interesting account of Sophie's murder. The narrator has an annoying way of pronouncing certain things, Schull not school, but otherwise it was good.

Very interesting

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I really enjoyed this book, but couldn’t help but feel letdown by how Nick let this book end.
I feel he did his listeners a disservice by not confronting Ian Bailey about being the murderer in person, but instead chose to do a cowardly phone call to the man.
From the start of the book, I was looking forward to Nick Foster confronting Ian Bailey about being the murderer but we were all let down by just a phone call which amounted to nothing and some excuse about Covid..

How Nick ended his Book..?

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At last something that puts this horrible saga in context I now believe he dine it too many people give statements for them all to be lies.
Clothes in the bath, claiming he did not know her scratches on the arms to name a few .

Great insight

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