Story Mediocre ... Narration Awful

1. I did enjoy the story, though there were no surprises. It was obvious from the get go what would happen. Some plot mistakes and you'll need to not mind all the locomotive details.
2. My main problem was the narrator. All of the female characters were voiced alike, making them all sound common and stupid. This annoyed me and because of this I will not be spending any further credits on these inferior and badly narrated crime novels.

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Entertaining enough to make me want to finish

I love historical fiction and the sense of period and this book was quite good on changes in mid-Victorian England. It also had a plot that was entertaining. However, I didn't find the narration very convincing and at times irritating. The characterisation was poor and at times, distractingly so. I might look at another book in the series but not if it has the same narrator. I'm sure the narrator is a talented actor, I think he's wrongly chosen for this book.

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Great storyline

I wish I was around during the wonderful world of steam trains. The story is great, and the characters are believable, and all have a place. I will definitely read more from this author.

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A predictable story

I struggled with this story as it's so predictable. It plodding pace is as if a slow train is just rumbling along for the sake of it. The narrator has a talent to present the storyline in many different voices, however his storytelling I found less than engaging.

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Well crafted detective story

This was well crafted detective story set in the Victorian era, and for once it was a story without a twist ending. Thank you.

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A plodding along story

A vanilla crime story without much merit. I recommend listening at 1.2x speed in order to give the delivery a little pace.

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‘Ok’

Immediately disliked the narration intensely and had to up the speed! As others have said, the story was pretty predictable and some of it felt quite lazily written.

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Great detective story

I really enjoy Edward Marston's other works and thought I would try an earlier story. I was not disappointed. A great detective story set in 1851, starting with a train robbery following the early Metropolitan police detective division in the investigation. The characters are well written with both a great detective and an excellent adversary. There are a few cliches with an officious superior, the dependable sergeant and plucky love interest but it works. Great stuff. Peter Walters does a good job with the narration.

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its ok

its OK, not a bad story sadly spoiled by bad narration. luckily looks like the rest are read by somebody else so might try the next one.

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Never thought I'd enjoy a detective story,

Listen to 2nd story on my digital Library app, because I was intrigued by the fact it was about crimes happening in trains in the age of steam trains & I love steam trains.
I enjoyed that, but they didn't have the 1st book, so I got this on audible & it was worth it, I alway said I didn't what to read detective stories which I took had the adult version of a adventure stories I loved has A kid (like the Enid Blyton Adventure series), because I didn't want to read about Murder etc, then I found this series of books and I haven't looked back.
Though once I forgot this was set in Victorian times and got excited when he said about getting a steam train, trying to think what line he could be using & how come that's quicker than a cab, then I remembered I wasn't in my time & that cab is a horse drawn covered vehicle not a taxi & that all trains were steam 😂. Trouble is I keep picturing the steam trains of 20th century has that's that's what I many seen, so it's a bit of a eye opener with trains of the mid 19th century, so we a little further on than the rocket, though not much, which these audio books came with pictures 😂)

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