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The Merchant's House

By: Kate Ellis
Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
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Summary

DS Wesley Peterson, newly arrived in the West Country town of Tradmouth, has his hands full when a child goes missing and a young woman is brutally murdered on a lonely cliff path.

Then his old friend, archaeologist Neil Watson, unearths the skeletons of a strangled woman and a newborn baby in the cellar of an ancient merchant's house nearby. As the investigation continues, Wesley begins to suspect that these deaths, centuries apart, may be linked by age-old motives of jealousy, a sexual obsession and desperate longing. And the pressure is on if he is going to prevent a further tragedy....

©1998 Kate Ellis (P)2017 Soundings Crime Thrillers Fiction Historical Mystery Police Procedural Suspense Thriller & Suspense Thriller Crime
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Hard to keep track of the many characters and their stories but I was happy to keep listening to the end.

quirky but enjoyable

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riveting from the get go....loved the story and the narration.....simple to listen to and a treasure to keep....
I have caught up to my other FAV authors Kate Morton and Elly Griffiths ....now to work thru your titles

added this author to my FAVs list

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This may well be an interesting book but the narrator's voice is all wrong. The main character is presumably about 30 years old and has a group of similar aged friends and colleagues. The narrator sounds like he's in his 70s and reads in a very clipped, old fashioned amdram style. I found it impossible to warm to the story - it all sounded like some 1930s black and white movie. I gave up after four chapters.

Spoiled by corny narration.

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Loved the dual story and the narrator is very easy to lasted to, looking forward to trying another in the series

Great book

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I have listened to hundreds of books
This is my second attempt to listen to the story. I again can't finish it. The narration was distracting. As a nearly octagenarian I don't want to be ageist but the voice was too old for the characters depicted. In my experience males are able to enable the listener to distinguish the male and female characters but this does not occur with this narrator. Sorry I cant listen further. Can't concentrate on the story

Narrator distracted negatively

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