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  • The Cutting Season

  • By: M. W. Craven
  • Narrated by: John Banks
  • Length: 2 hrs and 15 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (17 ratings)

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The Cutting Season

By: M. W. Craven
Narrated by: John Banks
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Publisher's summary

Poe's just hanging around on a Saturday afternoon....

Dangling from a hook in a meat packing plant isn't how Detective Sergeant Washington Poe wants to spend his weekend. He's been punched and kicked and threatened, and when a contract killer arrives, it seems things are about to go from bad to worse. He goes by the name of the Pale Man, and he and his straight-edged razor have been feared all over London for 20 years.

But Poe knows two things the Pale Man doesn't. Although it might seem like a hopeless situation, Poe has planned to be here all along. More importantly, a nerdy computer whizz-kid called Tilly Bradshaw is watching his back. And now things are about to get interesting....

©2022 M. W. Craven (P)2022 Hachette Audio UK
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Critic reviews

"A brutal and thrilling page-turner.'' (Natasha Harding, The Sun)

"A thrilling curtain raiser for what looks set to be a great new series." (Mick Herron)

"One of the most engaging teams in crime fiction." (Daily Mail)

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Fun, but please work out the production glitches!

As a big fan of DS Washington Poe and Tilly Bradshaw, (not to mention narrator John Banks, who is quickly ascending in my pantheon of best Audible narrators), I very much enjoyed this side romp, especially as I will have to wait a while for the next novel in the series. While I found the ending satisfying and the storytelling entertaining, it was slightly predictable, which was why I took star off the story rating. I also took a star off the overall rating to reflect my disappointment that the editing problems that have plagued this this excellent series have not been resolved. JW Craven, John Banks, and Poe & Co. deserve better attention to the production of the series.

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Too predictable.

The story was trite and too predictable. It utilized many of the tropes that readers of police procedurals are familiar with.

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