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Vale of Tears (Bradecote and Catchpoll #5) by Sarah Hawkswood (Sept/Oct 25)
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Vale of Tears (Bradecote and Catchpoll #5) - SPOILER Thread - (Sept/Oct 25)
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A wonderful story, very well read by John Hopkins. His use of slightly different voices is consistent and very well done. In fact when speaking as Insp. Barnaby, he actually bears a resemblance to John Nettles, which is brilliant.
The story is one I remember from the TV series, except as John Nettles notes in his forward to the novel, the book goes into a lot more detail, most especially around the characters and makes the novel a lot more character driven than the T ...more
A wonderful story, very well read by John Hopkins. His use of slightly different voices is consistent and very well done. In fact when speaking as Insp. Barnaby, he actually bears a resemblance to John Nettles, which is brilliant.
The story is one I remember from the TV series, except as John Nettles notes in his forward to the novel, the book goes into a lot more detail, most especially around the characters and makes the novel a lot more character driven than the T ...more
This is another book that the series Midsomer Murders is based on. In this series, Barnaby is investigating a murder that occurs in a new age commune. The contrast between the supposed mission of the new age center and the back stabbing and open arguments that occur among the varied guests and staff is quite amusing. The book begins with establishing the community and all the players, Barnaby does not even appear in the first hundred pages or so. Those hundred pages require attentive reading to
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