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  • Treasure and Dirt

  • By: Chris Hammer
  • Narrated by: Dorje Swallow
  • Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (850 ratings)

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Treasure and Dirt

By: Chris Hammer
Narrated by: Dorje Swallow
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In the desolate outback town of Finnigans Gap, police struggle to maintain law and order. Thieves pillage opal mines, religious fanatics recruit vulnerable young people, and billionaires do as they please.

Then an opal miner is found crucified and left to rot down his mine. Nothing about the miner's death is straightforward, not even who found the body. Sydney homicide detective Ivan Lucic is sent to investigate, assisted by inexperienced young investigator Nell Buchanan.

But Finnigans Gap has already ended one police career and damaged others, and soon both officers face damning allegations and internal investigations. Have Ivan and Nell been set up, and, if so, by whom?

As time runs out, their only chance at redemption is to find the killer. But the more secrets they uncover, the more harrowing the mystery becomes, as events from years ago take on a startling new significance.

For in Finnigans Gap, opals, bodies and secrets don't stay buried for ever.

A superb stand-alone thriller from the acclaimed and award-winning author of the international best sellers Scrublands, Silver and Trust.

©2021 Chris Hammer (P)2021 W F Howes

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Great tale, poorly narrated.

I looked forward to this book having enjoyed this author's work previously, but not this time. Dorje Swallow's reading of this good tale was appalling. I truly felt I was listening to a 4th grader reading badly.
The narration was stilted and disjointed, there was no flow to it and he broke every sentence into short blocks of four or five words before pausing as if he'd come to a full stop! Dreadful. Painful listening and had I not wanted to read this book to the end it would have been returned.
Are your narrators not subject to an audition? If not I think it a good idea to start.
I will avoid this narrators poor presentations like the plague in future.

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Excellent story poorly read.

Very much enjoyed the story. Chris Hammer is an excellent writer of crime fiction and he understands the nuances of life in the bush. I can’t, however, understand why he chooses to give some of his characters such silly names.
The reader on the other hand was appalling. Nobody reads in three or four word bursts with no regard for punctuation and his penchant for bursts of fake laughter every time a character laughed was grating beyond belief. I very nearly did not persist with the book and will never again purchase a book that this person reads.

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Incredible book

Another amazing book to add to Chris Hammers selection. The storyline had me on the edge of my seat all the way through, very well narrated too. highly recommended this and all his other books.

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An intriguing plausable mystery with an odd ending

The narrator as usual is excellent at .95 speed. Gripping. Couldn't stop until the end. Chris Hammer is great with interrelationships. Precise research but the ending I found a let down based on the tensions created initially.

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Another ripper

I was engrossed it kept me awake. I felt like I was in the outback Australian

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Good plot, awful narration

The narration was painful. Such a shame because I really love Chris Hammers outback mysteries, but it was ruined with Dorje Swallows ridiculously overly dramatic and repetitive tone. Really hard to listen to. Should have just bought the book because the story itself was complex and enjoyable

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Shocking Narration

I am not sure where the narrator was found but I can no longer listen to this audible book. I am not a big fan of the voice of an Australian male narrating a story.

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Loved it!

I really enjoy Chris Hammer books. They keep me interested and eager to hit play again. This one was no different.

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Awesome, classic Chris Hammer

Loved it!!

Once you start reading Chris Hammer you can’t stop. I love them all. Bring on the next one.

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Confusing

Well read but difficult to keep up with who’s who. Seemed to head of in unrelated tangents.

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Good?but no but..

I have become accustomed to the plodding way these stories are told with no frills, no lyricism, no character build up worthy of mention. They are singularly desiccated. But they’re mildly amusing and another lesson in short selling on the stock market was only mildly annoying.
It was, however, the actor narrating the book that annoyed me beyond belief..as other listeners have noted. Admittedly, the author writes shorter, stabbing sentences than most BUT it becomes overwhelming when they are read in machine gun utterings, often breaking up the sense of any longer sentence. What a shame. Last straw for me.

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