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London Crime Thriller Boxset
- Desecration, Delirium, Deviance
- Narrated by: Rosalind Ashford
- Length: 22 hrs and 12 mins
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Summary
Evil stalks the city of London at night. Can Detective Jamie Brooke and reluctant psychic Blake Daniel stop the murders before it's too late?
This audiobook contains three full-length crime thrillers with an edge of the supernatural from J.F. Penn.
Desecration. When the body of a young heiress is found within the Royal College of Surgeons, Detective Sergeant Jamie Brooke is assigned to the case. An antique ivory figurine found beside the body is the only lead and she enlists Blake Daniel, a reluctant psychic, to help her discover the message it holds.
Delirium. When a prominent psychiatrist is found murdered in the old hospital of Bedlam, Detective Sergeant Jamie Brooke finds herself investigating the history of madness to fathom the motive. Blake Daniel, a reluctant psychic, helps her to research the case, only to discover that his own family are entwined with the shadowy forces that seek to control the minds of the mad.
Deviance. When the body of a priest is found in the ruins of Winchester Palace, his tattooed arms flayed, his mouth stuffed with feathers, the artists and outcasts of Southwark huddle in fear. Private investigator Jamie Brooke begins the hunt for the murderer aided by Blake Daniel, a psychic researcher, who is haunted by visions of the past. As violence erupts, leaving a trail of bodies in its wake, Jamie and Blake must find the skin collector before those they love are taken down.
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- jenny
- 21-05-20
Exciting Story
J.F. Penn always tells an exciting, edge of your seat story & this trilogy does exactly that. It's much darker than her Arkane thrillers, you have been warned, but is never gratuitously graphic. The darkness is vital to each story & balanced with humour & hope.
I learnt a lot about different places & history - although I've visited the caves at West Wycombe & heard of The Hellfire club, there was a lot in these books that I didn't know. The author informs you without lecturing you, without dumping a lot of information for information's sake. Her love of research is apparent in all her books, & I love knowing that not only am I going to read a well plotted, pacy story, I'm going to learn about things that I didn't realise I was interested in.
The narration is very good - the crisp, almost accent-less English delivery adds an extra something when the occasional really, really dark prose appears.
While the books cover some 'difficult' subjects (such as the death of a child), these are handled carefully & thoughtfully. These books leave you with a lot to think about long after you've finished listening to them - as all great books should.
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- Ryan James
- 02-11-21
Gripping
I really enjoyed this box set got really invested in the back story and was able to work out who was behind it but always just before they where identified struggled to stop listening at times and finished it over 3 days
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- Kindle Customer
- 05-08-17
Dark stuff!
I'm a crime fiction buff and couldn't resist the value of a 3 for 1. Took a while to get used to the willowy narrator who's trying to sound like a ghost, and story 1 took a while to get going, but stuck with it and once it gets going, this is great gothic horror crime fiction. Recommended, not for the faint hearted!
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- Claire
- 10-09-20
Great series
This author has a dark mind! This was an impulse buy, not my usual type of listen at all but it's a great series. The narration is good and the story is excellent.
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- Anonymous User
- 27-12-20
narrator dreadful had to listen to one book at
time as the reader spoiled it. Story its self not too bad but overall gard work
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- MACK BLACK
- 03-07-21
Good story.
I think the narrator could have been alot better but I listened to the end anywY because it was a well written story.
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- hogg99
- 01-07-19
Accents
Whether African or Scandinavia. All accents sounded the same. Lol. This took the edge off the stories for me
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- Rachel
- 22-05-20
Dark and gripping
This boxset was my first introduction to J.F. Penn’s fiction, and now I’m hungry for more! I loved the blend of crime and the supernatural - for me it’s a winning combination when it’s done well, and J.F. Penn has executed it brilliantly with these three novels. She clearly puts a lot of research into her novels, but without overwhelming the reader or including needless detail. I particularly loved the choice of atmospheric locations, including the creepy Hunterian Museum, Bedlam, and Winchester Palace.
Other reviewers have mentioned that the narration wasn’t ideal, but I disagree. I got used to the narrator’s style quickly and found myself instantly immersed in the story.
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- lisa hird
- 30-09-21
Bonus history lessons
Love this authors work and the narrator does the books and storyline justice.
I love the in depth research the author carries out for each book and thoroughly enjoyed hearing all about London.
Fab story line and great characters.
A must read
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- George A Bear
- 19-12-20
Narrator grates-even at 1.2 speed
The stories are really interesting and have good characters but the narrator is totally off putting. Normally I get past this problem when the story is good - but each time I started I cringed again!
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