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Death in Focus
- Elena Standish, Book 1
- Narrated by: Polly Edsell
- Series: Elena Standish, Book 1
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Mystery
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Publisher's Summary
New York Times best-selling author Anne Perry brings us an exciting new thriller of espionage and murder set across Europe in the 1930s. The world is on the brink of war, and no one is to be trusted as young photographer Elena Standish becomes embroiled in a terrifying game of cat and mouse....
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- AJ
- 29-10-2021
Anne Perry foine. Narrator Zero.
I have enjoyed every Anne Perry book I've read in every medium. But, the narrator for this novel destroys the story. I cannot listen to her without wincing as she continuously 'puts on' supposed upper class accents. She cannot manage a male voice and her female voices are insipid. I gave her a chance. I listened to six excrutiating chapters. The audible purchase was a waste of money. Instead, I shall borrow the book from the library.
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- Philippa
- 01-05-2021
Great story as always by Anne Perry
Story is excellent but the reader is very poor. You have to try and ignore the dreadful plummy accent that she gives several of the characters.
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- Mrs. DD Gooding
- 06-10-2019
I enjoyed this book
I found this book quite gripping and enjoyed the plot. The only thing I found irritating is that the text stated that Elena had an American mother but the narrator gave the grandmother an American accent and the mother an English one.
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- mywallmum
- 01-08-2019
good old fash cloak and dagger stuff
took a while to get going then dead bodies everywhere... lovely posh folks too,
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