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The Nick of Time
- Capital City Murders, Books 6-10
- Narrated by: Joseph L. Stevenson
- Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
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Summary
From a Hanging in Helena to a Defenestration in Denver, Nick O’Flannigan can’t seem to avoid mysteries.
A mysterious hanging in Helena takes Nick on a historical journey. A cowboy game in Bismarck turned deadly. Family gone wrong led to parricide in Pierre. The carnage of an unsolved mystery in Cheyenne leads to a shocking solution. He witnessed defenestration in Denver, and his photos held a critical clue.
Wherever Nick goes, mystery follows.
In this exciting continuation of the Capital City Murders series, you can read books 6-10 all in one place for one low price! Catch up with Nick as he travels across the country on assignment for Travel USA magazine, taking photos of state capitol buildings. In every city, he finds a new mystery, and he’s got one year to complete his assignment. Will he be able to finish, or will his side adventures get in the way?
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- Norma Miles
- 01-03-21
"I have an idea..."
Stuart Gustafson, travel writer and co author of the Capital City Murders series, approached established author Troy Lambert with those words - as the ambitious project to write 50 novellas at the rate of one per month about a photographer travelling to each Capitol building around the U.S. to gather pictures for a soon to be published book was begun. A murder in every city. It is a big project, and a fun one to read. Murder, mayhem and lots of food eaten, a touch of romance, interesting location details - it's a great series and this compilation edition is a good way to read it including, as it does, five of the titles under the one cover - books 6-10.
6) Hanging in Helena
7) Branded in Bismarck
8) Patricide in Pierre
9). Carnage in Cheyenne
10) Defenestration in Denver.
In addition to the stories themselves, there is a brief section of facts about each of the cities visited. All is read by narrator Joseph.L.Stevenson.
Total running time is a little over ten hours, making each of the individual stories about the right length for a comfortable evening's entertainment. Because of the speed at which these books are brought out, inevitably there are a few editorial glitches, like the one in the how-it-all-began introductory chapter, which obviously must have also appeared in the first compilation, and was simply republished without removing the reference to it being the first book. But these are minor and easy to overlook.
My thanks to the rights holder of The Nick of Time, who, at my request, freely gifted me with a complimentary copy via Story Origin. An engaging and interesting series and I am looking forward to many more Capitol visits to come.
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- Julie
- 01-05-21
To need to carve out some time to enjoy this book
I enjoyed this book. This is the second book set of Capital murders, containing books 6 to 10 and what a great way to listen to them. You get the best of both worlds with this book, great if you only have a short amount of time, say a car journey because each book is only about one or two hours long but if you like a longer story then you can just keep listening for the next adventure. Each murder is very different but all happen in a capital city and is investigated by the same person, Nick. The author obviously did a lot of research on all the different locations, so that each method of death had meaning for that location, there is also some cool facts about each place at the end of each book. I did think that by now the stories might be beginning to become predictable, arrive at a new city, met and girl, get caught up in a murder, get told to keep out of it by the police, solve the murder and move on but it is so much more than that and I really enjoyed them.
Book 1 (book six in the series) Hanging in Helena.
This was the weakest book in the set for me because it seemed Nick was just trying to decided if he wanted to start a relationship with a new lady friend and was busy sight seeing more than investigating.
Nick arrives in Helena just in time to caught the lingering smell of smoke in the air. It seems a body was just found hanging in a tree and set alight to cover any evidence. With no plans other than taking photos of the capital Nick joins the receptionist when we asks him to join her for a hike. The trail they take leads them past the crime scene and Nick is unable to stop himself from taking pictures. When we spots something in one of the photos he takes it to the police and brushes his hands of the case to enjoy the sights with Helen but he keeps bumping into the same man and something about him is off. Can Nick figure it out?
Book 2 (book seven in the series) Branded in Bismarck
This was a fun one for me being brought up watching cowboy films with my mum. I liked how Nick had to work out of it was even a murder.
Nick arrives in Bismarck to the tragic news of young boys death of a heart attack. Everybody is talking about it and Nick is shocked at the young age of the boy follows up with his own questions. He learns of a video of the boy getting branded like cattle and quickly learn everything he can on the subject. Was it an accident that caused the heart attack or something a lot more deadly?
Book 3 (book eight in the series) Parricide in Pierre.
I really enjoyed this one as Nick was involved a lot more in the investigation as a crime scene technician and I certainly didn't work out who the killer was in this book.
Nick is beginning to get recognised and when one of there own is killed the police turn to him to help take crime scene photos of the dead policeman's home. A speeding ticket he forgot to pay catches up to him and he is taken off the case while it gets sorted out. But Nick is unable to let the fact that he thinks the police are wrong in thinking the murder was a simple burglary and what about the boy that is leaving him notes? Can Nick get to the bottom of another murder?
Book 4 (book nine in the series) Carnage in Cheyenne
This was my favourite and I loved how the authors turned what we thought we knew on our heads.
Nick might be a photographer at heart but all the murders he has investigated along the way has given him the big to investigate, which is why once reaching Cheyenne he offers his services in investigation a cold case. It seems on Halloween a mine walked into a clothes shop and gunned down three model's who were putting on a show and then disappeared. Can Nick find the clue that means the police can finally solve the cold case?
Book 5 (book ten in the series) Defenestration in Denver.
This was another one of my favourites. I liked the different way Nick solved the case and the fact that he was caught up in it instead of just being nosey.
With his girlfriend and best friend joining him on this part of the trip Nick is eager to get to the airport to collect them when he becomes a witness. The streets of Denver is full of protesters and Nick and his trust camera are just in time to see three people being thrown off the roof of a building. The police aren't the only ones interested in the photos he took of the event and Nick suddenly gets more attention than he wants when his photos hits the news. Will his photo show the evidence that leads to the killers arrest or has Nick damaged his reputation with the police for good this time?
I liked the narrator he continually brought great and different voices to each of the characters Nick met along the way.
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