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Fatal Decision
- The Freeman Files Series, Book 1
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
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Summary
Gus Freeman is a retired detective inspector who has spent the past three years alone.
Freeman’s wife, Tess, died from a brain aneurysm six months to the day after his retirement. He is still coming to terms with his enforced solitary existence.
His old boss wants Gus to head up a Crime Review Team investigating cold cases. Old witness statements plus fresh clues, and the hunt would be on. But Freeman wonders whether his superiors need his old-style methods. Is the request out of pity, to occupy his mind with fruitless digging into cases that their best young brains failed to crack? Yet he can’t resist the chance to enter the fray for one last hurrah.
In this first case, the team tackles the brutal murder of Daphne Tolliver in June 2008. The sixty-eight-year-old widow was walking her dog, Bobby, in a woodland close to her home. Despite the efforts of detectives at the time, they never identified a single suspect. A reconstruction of Daphne’s last known moments on television five years later yielded nothing. Gus Freeman and his new team appear to have a tough nut to crack for their first case.
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- Lynda Shaw
- 11-09-24
Very interesting
This detective story really kept my attention. There were times when I wondered if all the meandering tale was strictly necessary, but in the end, it all came together and enhanced my enjoyment.
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- Mrs
- 22-08-24
Appalling diction
The narrator surely was not a native English speaker. So many mispronounced words! I can only assume this was produced for the American market.
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- Neil F.
- 31-12-23
Arthur Morgan reads an OK book
I could listen to Roger Clark read a cereal box, and this was better than Kellogg’s ingredients. But, unfortunately, not by much. Very run of the mill cold case crime story with characters I haven’t warmed to after 1 book. I’ll try the next and see how it develops.
Adding to the above, I’ve now done 10 books as they’re included in the ‘free’ titles with membership. I wouldn’t have purchased any of them. I’m prepared to suspend reality for the purpose of fiction, and I’m sure there’s not much entertainment involved in real cold case investigation, but solving an old case every book? Within a week in most cases? Whilst being in your 60’s and attracting basically every female you encounter? After 60hrs odd of listening I still haven’t warmed to the characters, which is partly to do with the writing, and partly due to the delivery by Roger Clark. I love his voice, he’s like the North American Stephen Fry, but he’s given too much to do here. Many regional accents, some he does ok, others not so much, and place pronunciation is really off on many occasions. Maybe it’s just me but when a ‘local’ character can’t pronounce the city/town/village they’ve lived in all their lives, well it takes me totally out of the story. I’ll keep going til the free ones run out just to keep listening to Roger Clark, but without him I wouldn’t have even got to the end of book 1. I hate to say that as Ted Tayler is obviously much more talented than me at writing crime fiction, but I have listened/read a LOT of these type of books and these don’t do it for me.
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- Dr. R. Taylor
- 11-08-24
A goof short piece let down by the reading
The story is good, the plotting excellent. What lets this down is the reading. It begins with the narrator sounding Noprth Amican (maybe Canadian), by the end it is middle England. The chief protagonist begins middle England and by the end sounds Norther Irish - with the edges softened by the south west of England. And the pronunciation of some words and placnems grates every time I hear them. No one in the UK pronounces Salisbury (the city) with all of the emphasis on the 'i'. Clearly the narrator has not a clue and the producer did not bother checking. What a shame.
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- marie
- 29-06-24
Fatal Decision
I really enjoyed this story and the characters. Looking forward to reading another in the series.
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- JM
- 23-06-24
Quite enjoyable
Narrator has 'strange' pronunciations. First time I’ve heard Salisbury pronounced 'Sa lis bu ry'. Story a bit slow but on the whole, quite enjoyable; no violence or strong language.
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