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Smoke and Whispers

By: Mick Herron
Narrated by: Julia Franklin
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When a body is hauled from the River Tyne, Sarah Tucker heads to Newcastle for a closer look. She identifies the dead woman as Private Detective Zoë Boehm, but putting a name to the corpse only raises further questions. Did Zoë kill herself, or did one of her old cases come back to haunt her?

Coincidence is an excuse that soon appears pretty unconvincing. Sarah can’t leave until she’s found the answers to her questions, however dangerous they might turn out to be.

©2009 Mick Herron (P)2020 Isis Publishing Ltd Crime Thrillers Thriller & Suspense
Delightful Prose • Evocative Language • Great Character Differentiation • Compelling Situation • Riveting Storytelling
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Nick Herron. Makes you wonder who "he" is - characters are aptly drawn and have a familiar voice. Excellent little tale

Riveting storytelling

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Wonderful narrator and steady, surprising story! This is a fittingly complex end of this series. Great characters who I enjoy spending time with

Great last chapter!

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I found the main character, Sarah, just a little annoying at times, and I didn’t really follow all of her thinking that kept her hanging around. The end of the book made sense, just not particularly how Sarah got there. Maybe I was distracted during the listening so it might be me.

Enjoyed but no Slow Horses

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I have listened to all the slough house books and really looked them. the story here was ok, but I found the reader distractingly poor

Not Slough house

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Fun plot lines, interesting characters, and a thoroughly compelling situation. Julia Franklin rocks the performance as usual. Highly recommend!

Favorite one of the series yet

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Another great book in this series, and a fantastic wrap up. The narrator is once again phenomenal!!

Great ending

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Mick Herron does a tremendous job of taking us inside the thoughts of the main character. She is not a superhero, but an emotionally and intellectually flawed woman dealing with problems almost beyond her grasp. She makes mistakes -- and we are aware of them most of the time -- but we ride along inside her head on the wave of Herron's delightful and often hilarious prose. There is little action, but a great deal of tension in the book. And, despite her problems, the main character turns out to be stronger and smarter than we, or she, thinks she is.

Julia Franklin did a great job of differentiating the characters vocally. And her almost over-the-top performance of the main character's internal monologues perfectly emphasized how the character was frequently almost overtaken by surprise, doubt, wonder, anger, or what-have-you. I loved it.

Psychologically intense, comedically entertaining

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Terrible story line kept waiting (unsuccessfully) for it to get better. Couldn’t take the main character Sarah Rogers. A total waste of money and my time

Like author but this was a stinker

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Are plot lots of character studies and little sympathy for narrator much less anyone else. Love Herron’s books but this is so disappointing

What a disappointment

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Much ado about nothing! Well- performed narration. Too much talking; little action; no suspense. Chickflickery.

Too Much Talk!

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