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  • Where the Bodies Lie

  • DI Rob Marshall Scottish Borders Police Mysteries, Book 2
  • By: Ed James
  • Narrated by: Angus King
  • Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (32 ratings)

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Where the Bodies Lie

By: Ed James
Narrated by: Angus King
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A serial killer’s secret grave. Another murderer’s victims.

The case that broke Rob Marshall crashes back into his life.

Ten years ago, Marshall profiled a serial killer the press had dubbed the Shadow Man, who killed six young athletes at remote sites in cold blood, and he worked with Northumbria Police to catch the perpetrator. But the Shadow Man kept the burial locations of the final three bodies to himself. Tired of the passivity, Marshall quit profiling and joined the police.

Now a detective inspector in Police Scotland’s Borders Major Investigation Team, Marshall is summoned to HMP Frankland in County Durham, a.k.a. the Monster Mansion. The Shadow Man promises to show them where one body lies, allowing a family to finally grieve. But he will only show Marshall.

At a lonely woods on the banks of the Tweed, the Shadow Man leads them to where the body lies. But they find another three, freshly killed. Victims the Shadow Man couldn’t have murdered, with a vastly different MO. Is it a copycat? A collaborator? Or someone else entirely?

As Marshall and team scour the Borders and the North of England, desperately trying to identify the victims and track down the killer, it becomes clear someone else has been abducted and will suffer the same brutal fate. Can Marshall unpick the trail in time to save them?

Where the Bodies Lie is the second book in the DI Rob Marshall series, starring a haunted detective who masks his trauma with biting humor. Perfect for fans of Ian Rankin, Stuart MacBride, JD Kirk, and LJ Ross.

©2023 Ed James (P)2023 Grey Dog Audio

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Totally gripping

The story had me immersed from the very beginning. I really enjoyed the character development.
The action and mind-games were enthralling. I also felt the frustration of the detectives taking long drives, trying to get from one location to another. You've got to love A Roads. (or not!)
I found the narrator engaging and he injected both humour and excitement where appropriate.
I'm looking forward to the third installment.

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Great Yarn

I enjoyed this far more than the first in the series. Great fun. I’m a huge fan too of Angus King but having women speak quietly (very quietly in some cases) is problematic. I had to continually adjust the volume on the first part of the novel.

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Better Ed James better..

I nearly didn’t buy this book as I found the first in the series convoluted and tricky to follow …but this second story was great…a good yarn with better character development.

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Get's better eventually

i enjoyed the final quarter of this. Eventually there was some actual police work with some unanticipated twists.
However, i did find the first half hard going. The back story was tedious. Rob Marshall is fine when he gets going. We're endlessly told how he left profiling (and bizarrely forget how to do it?!) because he wanted to put theory into practice in frontline policing. But ironically, there is more angsting over ineptitude than action. I don't completely buy the idea of his complexity or not having sex for 20 years. Both he and Leanna are set up as having great psychological insight but their initial conversations are pretty banal and plodding -- although they come good in the end. I'd much prefer cracking on with the police procedural.

The narration is part of the problem. Like most people, i love Angus King's stock in trade "DI Logan" voice, which does the job for Rob too. He's also good roving around the Highlands. But the south of the border accents are horrible to the point of distraction (Geordie, Cumbrian -- and worst of all, breathy female Mancunian seductress). i think this made the multiple, relatively uneventful storylines of the first half difficult to follow.

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