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The Black Dahlia
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
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Summary
A neo-noir crime novel from the legendary crime novelist James Ellroy.
Los Angeles, 15th January 1947: a beautiful young woman walked into the night and met her horrific destiny. Five days later, her tortured body was found drained of blood and cut in half. The newspapers called her 'The Black Dahlia'. Two cops are caught up in the investigation and embark on a hellish journey that takes them to the core of the dead girl's twisted life....
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- Kosta-Koffe
- 30-05-18
Would have profited from some editing.
I was absolutely grabbed by the brilliant beginning and the middle, very atmospheric and full of life-like personages, but the story should have ended a three chapters earlier to make this book almost as good as "LA Confidential".
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- Amazon Customer
- 30-03-23
Great!!
fantastic story little bit of a choir at the beginning of the story but once it kicks in you won't be able to press pause
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-03-21
Scottish accent?
I know it’s a small thing and not really the fault of the audiobook producer but there is no such thing as a Scottish accent. Jeff here does an alright job of of an Aberdeen accent but needs some work z🤣
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- R J Worsdall
- 24-09-22
Excellent
Ellroy is a phenomenal story teller, keeping the reader hooked through many an unexpected twist and turn. The choice of Jeff Harding to narrate is absolutely exquisite: his style, his voices, his characters matching the crime noir to perfection
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- Anonymous User
- 27-07-24
absolutely brilliant
having only ever seen the movie I went into this not expecting too much. I was so wrong, brilliant story, brilliant narration and so much better than the movie in every way, a great book
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- MAGGS
- 03-04-16
The Black Dahila - good read but some parts quite disturbing & some readers light not like the choice language in book
The Black Dahila - good read but some parts quite disturbing & some readers light not like the choice language in book
Jeff's narration great as always
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- Dredddog
- 05-09-20
Good but tries too hard to be grim
A neo-noir about dirty cops in LA who get involved in an equally twisted (and famous real-life) murder. I liked the performance but the story tried a bit too hard to be grim and gritty. Literally everything in this book is dark. There are no light spots. After a while you wonder what is the point of it all. The author seems to be saying that everything is miserable, It's well researched and the characters are very believable. And yet it's all so unrelentingly grim and everyone is so horrible you wonder why everybody doesn't just go kill themselves. It makes Game of Thrones seem like Walt Disney by comparison. I prefer my fiction to be a little more balanced. But in its favour it does have plenty of twists and turns to keep you interested.
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- S. Wragg
- 20-09-23
Dark stuff.
This is a grim and convoluted tale you have to concentrate on at all times. Jeff Harding is great with the American male voices but his "Scottish" accent wanders all around that country and crosses the Irish Sea quite a bit too. Also, his female voices rankled with me. A sort of highly exaggerated camp tone. Women really don't talk like that!
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- Amazon Customer
- 23-09-20
Robotic Narration
Terrible narration, read in such a robotic manner.
It's a shame because the actual story is interesting although very unrealistic.
Narration has put me off listening to the quartet , back to basics and buy the paperback versions.
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- Ash M.
- 29-01-23
Great story
Enjoyed the story more than the performance, plenty of twists and turns but the performance lacked a little drama to truly entertain.
Enjoyable none the less.
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