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The Mark of a Murderer

By: Susanna Gregory
Narrated by: Andrew Wincott
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 February 1355: Oxford explodes in one of the most serious riots of its turbulent history. Fearing for their lives, the scholars flee the city, and some choose the University at Cambridge as their temporary refuge. But they don't remain safe for long. Within hours of their arrival, the first of their number dies, followed quickly by a second. When Matthew Bartholomew begins to investigate the deaths, he uncovers evidence that the Oxford riot was not a case of random violence, but part of a carefully orchestrated plot.© Susanna Gregory; (P) Clipper Audio Crime Fiction Fiction Historical Mystery Traditional Detectives Crime Detective
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After a previous 10 books, performed brilliantly, by David Thorpe I was extremely disappointed to hear another voice reading about my favourite characters. It wouldn't have been as bad if Andrew Wincott had pronounced the names the same, it ruined the flow of the story every time I found myself correcting his pronunciation. If it hadn't been for the fact I wanted continuity in Bartholomew's life I would have stopped listening after chapter 1! One more book to go before David is back, hopefully for the rest of the series.

Disappointed

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Well I came to this with some trepidation having followed the series from book 1 and absolutely loving the usual narrator. I have to start by saying anyone who starts with this book would not really have anything bad to say about the narration, as he is good although does not have as much range and strangely changed the pronunciation of several of the names not to mention Agatha the laundress suddenly sounded Irish! The biggest disappointment though is the voice for Brother Michael who previously had been given a fey, slightly camp voice that perfectly captured the dual aspect of the big, gluttonous monk who underneath has a razor sharp mind and is very knowing. Here he has a deep gruff voice that completely changes the character and takes away the knowing humour and just, at times, makes him appear a bully.

The story was a bit convoluted and not terribly believable and unfortunately there was not much time spent at Michael House and its eccentric crew, always my favourite bit and too much time spent with to good to be true Mathilde. She could do with a few quirks to make her more interesting. Still I suppose when you are writing a series of this length some stories are going to be slightly weaker.

As long as Matthew stays at Michael house to keep up the good work with Michael and be forever exasperated by his fellow scholars, that is all I ask.

Good but not as good.

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Well read. Full of surprises. Historical setting well researched. Why do I have to use 15 words for this review.

Unguessable plot.

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The story is great but the performance leaves a lot to be desired.
The narrator pronounces several words incorrectly which grates. But I wouldn’t have minded as much if there was consistency between audiobooks in the series.
The fact that the rights to the audiobooks for books 11 and 12 remain with whichever publisher arranged Andrew Wincott to do the narration let’s the whole series down a little bit.
I have read several reviews that disparaged David Thorpe’s work on the rest of the audiobooks but I absolutely LOVE his work. I was a bit taken aback by his choices of voice for Brother Michael but I went with it and now David Thorpe’s sibilant, posh, supercilious voice for Brother Michael IS Brother Michael.
I would probably not be so harsh on Andrew Wincott if I hadn’t been spoilt by Thorpe’s narration. BUT it is what it is.
I hope they get the rights back and ask David Thorpe to redo these soon.

Good story, poor performance

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Loved this book, well-read in a variety of voices. Villains and medieval town life a-plenty.

A favourite author starts a new series!

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