strange voices...

Promising series but this book gets too bogged down in the inner life of Noah. Whilst the lead characters of Marnie and Noah are okay, they aren't interesting enough to dwell on at the cost of a good detective story.

i'm not sold on Imogen Church (preferred the more understated reader of book 1). She is one of those readers who combines a posh (often breathy, emotive) narrator voice with a range of caricatural Eliza-Doolittle-cockney accents. For some reason the assumption of such readers is that the police almost always talk to each other in angry, shouty, rude voices - especially those in the higher ranks. Aside from being a cliche, this is tedious to listen to.

Unfortunately, the book also calls for a young male Jamaican voice. To be fair, Imogen is quite good at putting on various accents but the race/class distinctions are a bit grating when so obviously performed by someone who sounds like a middle class white woman. Might've worked better with the inclusion of an additional reader.

Hopefully the writer will drop the inner voices in future and focus on plot.

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