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  • The Dead Hour

  • By: Denise Mina
  • Narrated by: Katy Anderson
  • Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (33 ratings)

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The Dead Hour

By: Denise Mina
Narrated by: Katy Anderson
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Summary

Paddy Meehan is trawling the city for a story that will get her off the terrible night shift to which she's been consigned by her male colleagues. And then a woman, bleeding from a vicious head wound, offers her £50 to leave her alone. The very next morning the woman is found dead. Only Paddy cares enough about what's really happened to pursue a dark and brutal truth that could make her career, or kill her.
©2006 Denise Mina (P)2007 Isis Publishing
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Critic reviews

"I hope the wonderful Paddy has an investigative career as long as Miss Marple's ahead of her." ( Telegraph)
"Mina's detached but unsentimental view of man's inhumanity to man...never flinches, and her deadpan style serves her purpose well." ( Guardian)

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Denise Mina is a good writer but is badly let down by the reader of this book. Katy Anderson puts her inflections in the wrong places, pronounces corridor as corri-door and generally irritates the listener with a reading that is not fluid and seamless. I will not buy any books read by Katy Anderson.

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Superb narration!

Katy Anderson really brings the story alive, totally immersive, and loved the feisty heroine, Paddy

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Good story marred by the narration

I down-loaded this book on the strength of a previous Denise Mina book I'd listened to. It's a good story but spoiled for me by the narrator. I see that another listener has commented on this. I wish I'd read her review and not down-loaded solely on the strength of the author! I found it difficult to concentrate on the story at first as I was mesmerized by the extraordinary reading style of the narrator: it wasn't the Glasgow accent, I'm used to this I'm Scottish, it was the weird intonation swinging down and ending sentences on an up. I persevered with the book and enjoyed the story, but I can't recommend it because of the narration.

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