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  • Death of a Policeman: Booktrack Edition

  • By: M. C. Beaton
  • Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
  • Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
  • 3.6 out of 5 stars (82 ratings)

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Death of a Policeman: Booktrack Edition

By: M. C. Beaton
Narrated by: Graeme Malcolm
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Publisher's summary

Death of a Policeman: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience!*

From the author of the Agatha Raisin television series...Death of a Policeman: A Hamish Macbeth Mystery

Local police stations all over the Scottish Highlands are being threatened with closure. This presents the perfect opportunity for Detective Chief Inspector Blair, who would love nothing more than to get rid of Sergeant Hamish Macbeth. Blair suggests that Cyril Sessions, a keen young police officer, visit the town of Lochdubh to monitor exactly what Macbeth does every day. Macbeth hears about Blair's plan and is prepared to insure that Cyril returns back to headquarters with a full report. But Cyril is soon found dead, and Hamish quickly becomes the prime suspect in his murder.

*Booktrack is an immersive format that pairs traditional audiobook narration to complementary music. The tempo and rhythm of the score are in perfect harmony with the action and characters throughout the audiobook. Gently playing in the background, the music never overpowers or distracts from the narration, so listeners can enjoy every minute. When you purchase this Booktrack edition, you receive the exact narration as the traditional audiobook available, with the addition of music throughout.

©2014 M. C. Beaton (P)2020 Hachette Audio
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Critic reviews

"Series fans will welcome another visit to Lochdubh...charming and tenacious." (Library Journal)

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Story good, but…

Lose the music and background bits! Great for movies, but not for audio books!!! Please!!!

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Background music is a nuisance

For some reason, the producers felt the need to include a classical type of music at random points of the book. It’s very distracting and irritating. The narrator is very good and my favorite actually. But I will be returning this book because of the irritating music. If I have an option to get this book without the music I would get it instead even with an inferior narrator. Removing the music would be an easy fix.

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Sounds effects - a nice addition

At first I HATED the sound effects but soon found They faded into the background as was a very soft enhancement.

As usual, the story and characters were engrossing. I love Beatons development of her characters

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Annoying background music

This story With background music is very annoying. This story is otherwise decent. Hope the other stories don’t hav have this music.

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Music

Good story and narration. Terrible music background!!! Greatly reduced the quality and enjoyment of the production.

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Background “music” and noise UGH!

Excellently read but the background music and noise totally ruined this recording. It was hard to listen to!

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sounds

what was with all the weird music in the background.. to me off putting, do love Hanish

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Music distracts

I thought the addition of music and other sounds would be nice but found it a distraction. Buy the older version. Always good stories though.

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A winner!

Love this whole series! Quirky characaters you'll love, and so many plot twists that you never lose interest.

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Background noise😳

While I love the story, I’m a big fan of Hamish, I didn’t think the background noise enhanced the narrative.. in fact I found it distracting.

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