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Under the Cold Bright Lights

By: Garry Disher
Narrated by: Douglas Hansell
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Detective Alan Auhl does things his own way - and gets results. He works cold cases now. Like the death of John Elphick - his daughters are still convinced he was murdered, the coroner not so sure. Or the skeleton that’s just been found under a concrete slab. Or the doctor who killed two wives and a girlfriend and left no evidence at all....

©2017 Garry Disher; 2018 W. F. Howes Ltd (P)2018 W.F. Howes Ltd Crime Fiction Mystery Police Procedural Fiction Crime
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I liked writing of the main character didn’t go down a wormhole of self analysis of his actions.

The unique main character

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Too many moving parts: The various story lines were interesting & some of the characters were compelling...but pacing was clearly off, & nothing really developed with the depth to make it a cohesive novel.

Good characters but overall story didn’t hold together

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Garry Disher needs to write faster - I'm running out of titles to dive into.
This is a terrific character, a former homicide detective brought out of retirement to work some
cold cases and finds himself caught up in a couple that are still quite hot.
The narrator does a great job with the characters..not so brilliant with the narration itself but fine.
However doesn't a writer as brilliant as Garry Disher deserve someone who knows how to pronounce the
location titles? Please engage a Victorian to narrate his books...it's grating to hear (for example) Moe pronounced as one of the Three Stooges instead of as in Cooee. Sounds picky but its distracting. Anyway, like all the Disher books this leaves me desperately wanting more.

Another masterful book

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