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The Beauty of Murder

By: A K Benedict
Narrated by: Nick Rawlinson
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Stephen Killigan has been cold since the day he arrived in Cambridge. Seven hundred years of history staining the stones of the university have given him a chill he can't shake. Then he stumbles across the body of a missing beauty queen - a body which disappears before the police arrive...

Unwittingly, Killigan has entered the sinister world of Jackamore Grass on a trail that reaches back to seventeenth-century Cambridge. It's a world of cadavers, philosophers and scholars of deadly beauty, a world where a person's corpse can be found before they even go missing, of a city and a person that hold far too many secrets written in blood.

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(p) 2013 Isis Publishing Ltd©2013 A K Benedict Crime Thrillers Science Fiction Suspense Thriller & Suspense Time Travel Crime Fiction Mystery
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Critic reviews

Written in sinuous, elegant prose with characters that linger in the mind...one of the more interesting debuts this year
A fast-paced page-turner, this is a speculative crime thriller that travels to the heart of a series of gruesome crimes by way of a city and person that have far too many secrets written in blood
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If you could sum up The Beauty of Murder in three words, what would they be?

Intriguing. Clever. Original.

What did you like best about this story?

Characterisation is both sympathetic and honest. All characters are real and believable, including those we would normally not want to understand.

What does Nick Rawlinson bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?

A voice

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

The ending is full of both human understanding for us as readers and for the main character. This beautifully crafted moment will stay with me forever.

Any additional comments?

This book will capture you. Count on it.

Outstanding

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I nearly asked for my money back when first listened to this as found it really annoying the accent of the main character makes him seem middle aged and boring but the character is supposed to be young but still boring. His best friend and another female police pathologist character sounded like badly attempted Welsh accents instead of possibly being Indian also the college porter, a later minor character supposedly West Indian also began to sound a bit Welsh. The baddy upper class English characters and their accents were all too hammy and the characters ridiculous. I’d say the main story is a good idea but gets a bit lost. I liked the descriptions of 17th century Cambridge and the fens. Found myself impatiently waiting for book to end as it rambled on too long.

Appalling accents and too long winded

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