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Once Upon a Haunted Moor

The Tyack & Frayne Mysteries, Book 1

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Once Upon a Haunted Moor

By: Harper Fox
Narrated by: Tim Gilbert
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Gideon Frayne has spent his whole working life as a policeman in the village of Dark on Bodmin Moor. It's not life in the fast lane, but he takes it very seriously, and his first missing-child case is eating him alive. When his own boss sends in a psychic to help with the case, he's gutted - he's a level-headed copper who doesn't believe in such things, and he can't help but think that the arrival of clairvoyant Lee Tyack is a comment on his failure to find the little girl.

But Lee is hard to hate, no matter how Gideon tries. At first Lee's insights into the case make no sense, but he seems to have a window straight into Gideon's heart. Son of a Methodist minister, raised in a tiny Cornish village, Gideon has hidden his sexuality for years. It's cost him one lover, and he can't believe it when this green-eyed newcomer stirs up old feelings and starts to exert a powerful force of attraction.

Gideon and Lee begin to work together on the case. But there are malignant forces at work in the sleepy little village of Dark, and not only human ones - Gideon is starting to wonder, against all common sense, if there might be some truth in the terrifying legend of the Bodmin Beast after all. As a misty Halloween night consumes the moor, Gideon must race against time to save not only the lost child but the man who's begun to restore his faith in his own heart.

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The narrator's performance was amazing for this quick little snack of a story. Much like a snack, don't go into this expecting something hearty or overly filling. But it is most definitely an enjoyable treat that is worth a spare credit if you have one.

Fun Sexy Short

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Great narration by new to me Tim Gilbert. Love the story of Tyack and Frayne. The abducted little girl storyline just added to the suspense

Can't wait to continue the series.

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A great introduction to the author and to this series. The plot itself is fairly straightforward but this audiobook serves well to introduce Tyack and Frayne, who are terrific characters.

A great introduction

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Lonely and closeted, Gideon Frayne is the village bobby in Dark on Bodmin Moor when a young girl goes missing. He is frustrated by the offer of help from Lee Tyack, a clairvoyant, but the two eventually mesh well together both professionally and personally. This short PRN murder-mystery romance had a haunting, eerie atmosphere and introduces us to Tyack and Frayne as well as the Bodmin Moor district. Frayne is typically dour but softens in Tyack’s more open presence and it will be fascinating watching the two navigate their relationship over the series. Being such a short work (94 pg, 3 hrs on audio), the mystery is fairly straightforward but no less compelling. Audio narrator Tim Gilbert narrates well with some great UK regional accents.

Atmospheric mystery on the moors!

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