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An Ill Wind

By: Margaret Hickey
Narrated by: Sam Rechner, Emma Harvie
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High on a hill above the small Victorian town of Carrabeen, 300 wind turbines constantly spin.

Except one is now deadly still - a body hanging from its huge white blade.

Detective Sergeants Belinda Burney and Will Lovell are shocked to discover the dead man is Geordie Pritchard, a rich local philanthropist and owner of the wind energy farm.

Suicide at first seems the likely explanation, until Geordie's widow Lucinda insists her husband was murdered - and she has the death threats to prove it.

Certainly the wind farm has ripped the rural town in two. Some welcome the jobs and prosperity it brings, others are enraged by the loss of farming land.

In short, Pritchard was both saint and sinner. But who in the small community hated him enough to want him dead?

©2025 Margaret Hickey (P)2025 Penguin Random House Australia Audio Crime Thrillers Mystery Police Procedurals Thriller & Suspense
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The story is a typical rural crime story - not bad, convoluted and prosaic.
The audible narration is awful. There are 2 narrators - the woman is fine - the man should never be employed to narrate a novel ever again. His delivery is slow, disjointed and the voice he uses for the female characters is horrendous. The character ‘Marta’ sounds like a drugged drag performer - ridiculous.

Honestly - the novel is ok - but the narration is so deeply annoying that I feel ripped of. Margaret Hickey should be annoyed

Horrible horrible narration

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Enjoyable! Likeable characters and many through lines in the plot. Loved the small country town vibe. Male narrator had some awful voices for female characters.

Many moving parts

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Great story with good character development. Narrators are both terrible, with the female being marginally more tolerable. Both narrators need to learn timing and voice inflection

Great story

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I don't believe I can finish listening to the rest of the book (only on chapter 4) due to both narrators being unanimated which means that they don't bring any life to the book or the characters. I love Margaret Hickey books but this one definitely needs to be re-narrated before I will finish listening to it. Waste of money and perhaps whoever chooses the narrators need to listen to them first..

Unanimated

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