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Spoken Bones

A DI Fenella Sallow Crime Thriller, Book 1

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Spoken Bones

By: N.C. Lewis
Narrated by: Deborah Balm
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Summary

This dark secret could finally break her…

Detective Inspector Fenella Sallow is obsessive about her work and driven by her own demons. When the body of a retired artist is discovered atop the blackened embers of the town bonfire, the community is rocked to the core.

It falls to DI Fenella Sallow and her team to find out how she came to be there. In her 50s, the veteran detective inspector thought she had seen it all. But behind the curtained windows and closed doors of the idyllic Cumbria coastal setting lurks pure evil.

Fenella must confront her dark past. Haunted by the unsolved case of a missing girl, she knows it is a race against time. Can she stop this death from slipping through her fingers, too?

Before long, it becomes disturbingly clear that the killer is playing a twisted game and will do anything to conceal the terrible truth of what happened on the beach on Bonfire Night.

Set against the backdrop of beautiful coastal Cumbria, an ancient land of legend, folklore, and myth, Spoken Bones is the first book in the Detective Inspector Fenella Sallow series.

This pause-resisting crime thriller will keep you hooked until the very end. If you like police procedurals with psychologically complex characters and shocking twists, then you’ll love Spoken Bones.

Perfect for fans of L.J. Ross, J.D. Kirk, Simon McCleave, Stuart MacBride, Matt Brolly, Angela Marsons, Alex Smith, J.M. Dalgliesh, J.E. Mayhew, David J. Gatward, T.G. Reid, Jack Gatland, Robert F. Barker, and J.R. Ellis.

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Heard so much hype about this Detective series ……might just be me 🤷‍♂️ but I found it disjointed and unfathomable .
I wanted to be involved with it but it just didn’t hang together …so many loose strands that ended up in dead ends .
The finale was seemingly unrelated to the whole investigation.

Disappointed

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new author to me , loved the story the pace and the narrator , cant wait for the next

brilliant

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spoken bones was the 1st in the series, I am looking forward to listening to the rest in this series. book one was well written and beautifully read.

will look for the next in the series

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Format: audiobook
Narrator: Deborah Balm

The storyline was good but rambled a bit in places. I found it a bit strange as it was set in Cumbria in the UK a very beautiful and scenic part of the country but rainy dismal weather seemed to be the focus as well as the title of the police ie: detective rather than officer or sergeant. It’s like it was written from the perspective of what an American thinks the UK is like!

I did find this narrators delivery quite flat which unfortunately meant I found myself drifting away from the story.

Spoken bones

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Ive seen other terrific reviews but I found this book a struggle. For a huge part it’s just character after character but I didn’t feel drawn into their lives. By the time the only twist does happen, I had lost all interest and just wanted to finish it. I wouldn’t recommend this book, sorry

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