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The Body in the Dales

A Yorkshire Murder Mystery, Book 1

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The Body in the Dales

By: J. R. Ellis
Narrated by: Michael Page
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An unpopular victim. An impossible crime. A murderer on the loose.

Revised edition: Previously published as The Body in Jingling Pot, this edition of The Body in the Dales includes editorial revisions.

A body is discovered deep in a cave beneath the Yorkshire Dales. Leading the investigation into the mysterious death are experienced DCI Jim Oldroyd and his partner DS Carter, a newcomer from London.

The deceased is Dave Atkins, well known throughout the village but not well liked. While there is no shortage of suspects, the details of the crime leave Oldroyd and Carter stumped. How did Atkins’s body end up in such a remote section of the cave? When someone with vital information turns up dead, it becomes clear that whoever is behind the murders will stop at nothing to conceal their tracks.

Oldroyd and his team try to uncover the truth, but every answer unearths a new set of questions. And as secrets and lies are exposed within the close-knit community, the mystery becomes deeper, darker and more complex than the caves below.

©2017, 2018 J. R. Ellis (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Cosy Crime Crime Thrillers Fiction Mystery Police Procedural Thriller & Suspense Murder England Thriller
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The story is unnecessarily complicated and the narration is the worst I've heard. Not recommended.

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the narrator was terrible the so called Yorkshire accent was so bad , I am born and bred in Yorkshire and i can assure you nobody sounds like that, it's a shame the story wasn't bad ,

story not bad however I haven't finished the book

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On the surface an old-fashioned tale but I think that is the author's intention. I actually find it difficult to date - I grew up in the area myself but have been away for 50 years visit often and things have moved on in most ways but not in others. What has never changed is most locals' love of the area, the landscape, the small villages and market towns and the author's love comes through the writing.
All the characters are well written and rounded out as the tale continues. The main character is a local who has been educated at Oxford which cleverly gives the author the opportunity to explain his love of his surroundings and demonstrate his learning. The introduction of a new subordinate from the South allows him a chance to describe the area and the background of the inhabitants.
The problem is cleverly thought out with enough complications and suspects to confuse and although I knew the answer to the 'how" quickly having been a potholer in my youth I was never quite sure of the perpetrator. All very pleasantly enjoyable.

Entertaining who-dunit

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For a book so steeped in Yorkshire, the narrator HAS to come from there! What about Ralph Ineson??? He is a Yorkshire man who is a very skilled story teller.
Shame because the story is great with extensive research done on pot holing :-)

Narrator let it down :-(

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Reader's accent not really suitable for a Yorkshire based drama. Over precise pronunciation of names such as Harrogate. And Keighley as Keeley!

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