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Dire Straits
- Bo Blackman, Book 1
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Bo Blackman is a rookie private investigator working for the London based firm of Dire Straits. She doesn't often get triber-based assignments, which is just as well. Vampires and daemons don't interest her as much as humans do. However, when she has to serve a summons on a dodgy daemon called Devlin O'Shea and she ends up saving his life instead of being framed for his murder, her life takes a shocking turn for the worse. And when the vampire Families start involving themselves too, Bo no longer knows where to turn.
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- Imee-B
- 10-10-2016
Exciting start for a new series
Dire straits is an exciting and the heroine/private detective is lovable but clueless, her heartis in the right place but she seemed to have all the bad luck in the world. Anyway its a great first book of this serial and i want to know what happens next to Bo and Michael? Whill they finally kiss? They do have a chemistry so please don't let us wait forever. Saskia as always is excellent in her narrative xx
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- Grant Lewis
- 20-07-2023
change of genre for me
My first fiction book in quite a while. it was a nice diversion for me. I enjoyed the narration performance and the story.
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- Blue Snowflake
- 24-03-2018
An alright story
Great narration. Story was a bit slow. Main character was not very smart. Other characters were good. The characters reminded me a bit of a Miss Marple story.
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- Gimmebooks
- 26-07-2021
Good mistery
I liked the mystery part of the story. I didn't particularly like Michael the family head/potential love interest. Also, family structure was super vague and the world building could use some work.
I was also pretty depressed by the semi-cliffhanger ending rather than curious about what happens next.
Not sure if I will continue the series.
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