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  • Peninsula Crime, Book 1
  • By: Garry Disher
  • Narrated by: Colin McPhillamy
  • Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
  • 3.7 out of 5 stars (72 ratings)

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Dragon Man

By: Garry Disher
Narrated by: Colin McPhillamy
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Publisher's Summary

Summer on the Peninsula. 

The heat’s ramping up, the usual holiday madness building. D.I. Hal Challis is already recycling his shower water and starting to dread Christmas. But this year there’s something more. Women abducted and murdered on the Old Highway. A pall of fear over the scorched paddocks. The media are demanding answers - and Challis’s sleepy beat is set to explode.

©1999 Garry Disher (P)2018 Recorded Books Inc

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Can not finish

I love Garry Disher books but I cannot listen to this narrator. I listen while driving my car but his voice is so boring it’s making me sleepy.
I can not listen even at home.

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dreadful narration

The reader (and that's all he is) is dreadful. The whole book is read in the same monotone. It was so bad that I had trouble following the story.
Will never buy a book with this reader ever again.

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Good story but not loving this narrator

I’m sorry to say that I really did not enjoy listening to this narrator. His queen’s English was not the best choice for this Australian crime thriller. The story was good with lots of interesting characters but the narrator distracted me.

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Great listen

I love Garry Disher’s books
Unfortunately I don’t particularly like Colin Phillamy’s narration I think his voice is to formal and doesn’t fit with the characters in the novel

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Horrible narrator, story is a soap opera

I very much enjoyed the other cop series from this author so was looking forward to this. The story is probably okay but the weird narrative style of the reader is a total turn-off.

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Disappointing

Not One of Disher's best, I found the story a little mediocre and the characterisation of the leads not very engaging. I qas glad when the book came to an end.

this may well have been a result of the lacklustre narration, which became maddening at times. I note the narrator reads quite a few titles in this series, which I won't continue. I'll try one of the author's other series and continue waiting for the next in the Hirsh series instead.

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Narrator

His reading and voice. couldn't listen anymore. couldn't follow the story. Shame I've listened to one of his books before

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Book fine - narration terrible

I’m a quarter way through this. Not sure if I can go on. Story is gripping but narrator is awful.

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The voice actor and does not match the story

The storyline is complex and interesting but the voice actor misses the humour that is intrinsic in the text.

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Narrator does my head in

Would have been great like Dishers other books but narrator sounded like he was reading English poetry not an Aussie book

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