"Something eerie in that part of the river."

The elements of a really good story are all here - great characters, mystery, action, drugs and the terror of something lethal in the river - but offered with such confusion, it has to force it's way out. Written in the first person, that person, unfortunately, changes without indication, also moving between time, that of father and son in the 1970s and 1990s. In some ways it is a clever concept but too clumsily done to be anything more than annoying.
The narration, however, is pleasing to hear. David Phillips ' reading perfectly fits this reader's image of the main characters, with southern accent and a warmth of emotion, nicely modulated. The performance helps carry the reader through to the end of the book, although the final chapter is again badly edited with a curious break in sentence, and sense, in the final words.
My thanks to the rights holder who, at my request, freely gifted me with a complimentary copy of Blue River Blues via Audiobook Boom. This is an enjoyable book blighted by bad editting, too confusing in it's current form to be one I could personally recommend.

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