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A woman is found dead in a ditch. As the list of suspects grows, a town’s dirty secrets are revealed. 

It’s a cold winter evening, and rain is sweeping in from the Atlantic when a young woman, having braved the weather to visit her sick mother in a remote part of Ireland, comes across an obstacle in the road. She clears the highway of stones from a damaged bridge only to see the body of a woman in a ditch. With no phone reception, she travels to the nearest police station to report what she has found. 

The local Garda waste no time in attending the scene of the crime. The woman is clearly dead, but it needs proper forensics to establish if foul play was the cause. In the meantime, is it not possible that the woman driver was in fact the culprit? She is clearly not telling the whole truth.

A game of cat and mouse ensues when the inquiry is upgraded to a murder investigation. The trouble is, when the victim is recognised as a sex worker, there is no shortage of possible suspects. And few of them, if any, are willing to tell the truth to the police. It will take all of Galway detectives Hays and Lyons’ experience to cut through the web of lies and identify the killer in their midst.

©2018 David Pearson (P)2018 W. F. Howes Ltd Crime Fiction Mystery Police Procedural Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction Crime
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The story would have been just about bearable but the narrators monotone voice with no change in character or expression was flat & unimpressive I almost gave up several times but hung on to the bitter end

The dreadful narration

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I liked the story and it was fast paced. But what the heck? The narration was abysmal. It was like the chap who was booked didn’t show up so they found a random male in the studio and asked them to read it. He was terrified and just wanted to get it over and done with as quickly as possible.

What a peculiar narrator

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Really poor narration. Read in the same monotone voice throughout. It was so poor it took from the story.

Poor narration

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I couldnt get further than 20 mins into the book as the narration was over excitable and unbelievable. perhaps more suited to a children's book.

awful narrator

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Started out well enough and I did read it until the end, but it became very muddled towards the end as if there wasn't enough time to get it all into the time allowed.

Started out well

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