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Dark Murder

DCI Greco, Book 1

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Dark Murder

By: Helen H. Durrant
Narrated by: Nicholas Camm
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A woman is found dead by a canal. Her eyes have been poked out.

Detective Stephen Greco has just started his job at Oldston CID and is faced with several murders with no obvious connection except for the murderer's penchant for disfigurement. His team are crumbling under the pressure; he doesn't know whom he can trust. Can Greco regain composure and control in order to stop the murders?

©2015 Helen H. Durrant (P)2017 W. F. Howes Ltd Crime Crime Fiction Murder Mystery Police Procedural Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction
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A fastidious loner with OCD, DCI Stephen Greco has not made friends with his new team at Oldston CID over the last 3 months. Greco feels he has been given a bunch of no-hopers and despairs he can whip them into shape, especially ‘Speedy’, his hard-drinking, work-shy sergeant. A local violent drug dealer is implicated when two women are found dead with their eyes missing but Greco feels like he is being led down the garden path. I was familiar with Greco from Helen Durrant’s Calladine series, where he presents as a pretty unlikeable machine. Here, sitting in Greco’s head, he seems much more human, and as flawed as the rest of us. The story is fabulous. I loved the dysfunctionality of Greco and his team who somehow perform in spite of themselves. Like a lot of Durrant’s plots, there were multiple storylines woven through each other, overlapping in places, and it was really interesting to see it all fit together. The Greco titles all start with ‘Dark’, which is apt since Greco himself is overly sombre and so is the mood within his team. UK actor Nicholas Camm narrates the audio. While he matched the mood and voiced the characters extremely well, he dramatically raises and lowers his volume to suit the emotion of the dialogue which left me scrambling to lower the volume on the shouts or having to replay sections when he whispered (the series is currently free on the Audible Plus catalogue).

Like dark chocolate: bitter, rich and satisfying!

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The story was well thought out, but too much cruelty for me. The performance was very uneven, so couldn’t hear some of it clearly. Disappointing.

Just missed the mark

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Missed so much of the story as the recording was terrible. The narrator spoke so softly I couldn’t hear so much even when on full blast.

Terrible recording

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Although this was quite a good story leaning toward gruesome as Durant's murder mysteries tend to be, the narrator's way of reading it distracted me throughout and I've since read the others myself. He seems to add too much emphasis or inflection where it is unwarranted.

Story ok but narrator not so much

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Bloody awful reader. Goes from full volume to a whisper, all in the same sentence. Tried 3 different Bluetooth speakers but could not get enough volume out of any of them to be able to hear all of it. - very frustrated.

The reader whispers the crucial details - annoying

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Had trouble listening as narrator would speak very softly at times, almost whispering then speak loudly

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Having a friend who reads these books months before they become available I've been eagerly awaiting this new Graco series. This was a good start so can't wait to get catching up. I hope that unlike the Calladine & Bayliss series, also by Helen H Durrant which I loved, all the books become available on Audible.

Finally on Audible

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It was a well thought out story… but I struggled badly to hear even with my EarPods no matter how hard I tried it was very difficult way too low volume, I had to go back several times to listen to different parts of it (and no I don’t usually have an issue)

Great story hard to hear

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Couldn’t hear half of what was said because the narrator decided it was a good idea to whisper all the time.

Terrible whispering

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