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Under the Cold Bright Lights
- Narrated by: Douglas Hansell
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Mystery
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- Denise
- 03-11-2021
Dissapointing
Narrator was terrible. Toneless and boring not Garry Dishers best story . I really struggled to get into it but was glad to finish.
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- Sherri
- 23-04-2022
Another masterful book
Garry Disher needs to write faster - I'm running out of titles to dive into.
This is a terrific character, a former homicide detective brought out of retirement to work some
cold cases and finds himself caught up in a couple that are still quite hot.
The narrator does a great job with the characters..not so brilliant with the narration itself but fine.
However doesn't a writer as brilliant as Garry Disher deserve someone who knows how to pronounce the
location titles? Please engage a Victorian to narrate his books...it's grating to hear (for example) Moe pronounced as one of the Three Stooges instead of as in Cooee. Sounds picky but its distracting. Anyway, like all the Disher books this leaves me desperately wanting more.
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- Laura Quine
- 27-03-2018
Good characters but overall story didn’t hold together
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- P.W.Ainsworth
- 26-03-2018
Good story
Good story plenty of different aspects to it. Just slightly spoilt by the performance delivery.
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