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The Slaughter Man

By: Tony Parsons
Narrated by: Colin Mace
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On New Year’s Day, a wealthy family is found slaughtered inside their exclusive gated community in north London, their youngest child stolen away. The murder weapon is a gun for stunning cattle, leading Detective Max Wolfe to a dusty corner of Scotland Yard’s Black Museum devoted to a killer who thirty years ago was known as the Slaughter Man. But the Slaughter Man is now old and dying. Can he really be back in the game?

©2015 Tony Parsons (P)2015 W F Howes Ltd Crime Fiction Modern Detectives Mystery Police Procedural Fiction Crime Suspense Murder

Editorial reviews

The Slaughter Man is the breathtaking crime thriller audiobook written by best-selling author Tony Parsons and skillfully narrated by British actor Colin Mace. Deep inside Scotland Yard lies a room with evidence of a psychopathic killer who stalked through London 30 years earlier and was never caught. Now an entire family is found slaughtered in his old hunting ground, the youngest child kidnapped. Has he chosen the young child to be his apprentice, to carry on his killings now he’s too old to continue himself? A grotesquely engaging book that will start your heart racing. Available now from Audible.

Critic Reviews

"Spectacular! Tense and human, fast and authentic." (Lee Child on The Murder Bag)
"A relentless plot, evocative prose and compelling portraits of the characters, good and evil, conspire to make this a must read." (Jeffrey Deaver on The Murder Bag)
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This book is quite dark, but not overly violent, it is fast paced and I imagine it will make an excellent film, it put me in mind of 'Mr In-between". I found the characters mostly believable and over all I enjoyed the story, however I found the dialogue between the father and five year old daughter unconvincing - too old and mature - more like a 9-12 year old, I also found the narrators voice was mismatched for the main suspect, too soft and small compared to the description.

The Slaughter Man

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Tony Parsons is my new favourite author and Colin Mace is my new favourite narrator. I cannot get enough of this series and am working my way through all of them.

Binged on this

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I enjoyed murder bag but slaughter man was a let down. Implausible decisions to place officers at risk and Max Wolfe ended up with enough injuries to place him in rehab for a few decades. And yet he just kept on going.

Spoiled by implausibility

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A bit drawn out, and at times fairly unbelievable. It tendered to lurch from crisis to crisis and although I enjoy the hero, (although I found him difficult to emotionally connect with) I do find the situations he finds himself in quite hard to comprehend. The murder of the call girl was a bolt from the blue and there appeared to be on occasions, violence for the sake of violence.

I will listen to the third book in the trilogy, when released, however will seek to now listen to something not as unpleasant in story line and characters.

Fractured

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talking about events far to much.it did keep you in wanting to know more. but so.etimes the voice went to far

the voices of the talker

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Great narrator made it a good listen. But DC Wolfe is implausible and absurd. Sleeping with witnesses in both books so far, getting into near death violent altercations repeatedly and somehow surviving. The stories up to the violence are intelligently written and have dimension. But this is the last book I’m listening to in this series, I just cannot digest this cop’s stupidity and implausible violence and repeated survival.

Absurd DC Wolfe

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Good story but the narrator speaks with no punctuation or inflection whatsoever unless he was speaking for someone else. He makes it sound like someone has forced to do it - sounds bored af..

Narrator ruined it

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DC Wolfe is an irresponsible, neglectful father and a lousy police officer. One of the most dislikable fictional characters I’ve come across. The story is riddled with gratuitous violence (he’s the police force’s punching bag!) and ponderous moralising. Don’t waste your money.

Just dreadful

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