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The Body in the Dales

A Yorkshire Murder Mystery, Book 1

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The Body in the Dales

By: J. R. Ellis
Narrated by: Michael Page
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An unpopular victim. An impossible crime. A murderer on the loose.

Revised edition: Previously published as The Body in Jingling Pot, this edition of The Body in the Dales includes editorial revisions.

A body is discovered deep in a cave beneath the Yorkshire Dales. Leading the investigation into the mysterious death are experienced DCI Jim Oldroyd and his partner DS Carter, a newcomer from London.

The deceased is Dave Atkins, well known throughout the village but not well liked. While there is no shortage of suspects, the details of the crime leave Oldroyd and Carter stumped. How did Atkins’s body end up in such a remote section of the cave? When someone with vital information turns up dead, it becomes clear that whoever is behind the murders will stop at nothing to conceal their tracks.

Oldroyd and his team try to uncover the truth, but every answer unearths a new set of questions. And as secrets and lies are exposed within the close-knit community, the mystery becomes deeper, darker and more complex than the caves below.

©2017, 2018 J. R. Ellis (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Cosy Crime Crime Thrillers Fiction Murder Mystery Police Procedural Thriller & Suspense England Thriller
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The narrator was very hard to listen to could not distinguish from many of the characters he was trying to portray

Not a great storyline

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The story was okay but the narrator was so boring I kept falling asleep.

I struggled to finish.

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I am going to enjoy my journey with DCI Oldroyd. I can forgive the dry passages and the unnecessary romance between his junior colleagues. Lots to be going on with Jim.

Another great detective.

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Loved the way it drew you into the love of the Dales snd potholing via very old poems.

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Entertaining story. It was fairly predictable though. Narration OK but I had trouble discerning which character was talking at times.

Entertaining

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