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The Landscape of Death

DCI Tom Raven Crime Thrillers, Book 1

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The Landscape of Death

By: M. S. Morris
Narrated by: Dan Calley
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About this listen

A dead man on the beach. A detective with everything to prove. And a secret that won't stay buried.

When a man’s body washes up on the North Yorkshire coast with a gunshot wound to the chest, DCI Tom Raven is handed the case. The only clue to the victim’s identity? A ring engraved with two names.

Raven hasn’t set foot in Scarborough for over thirty years. Now he’s back – leading a murder investigation and facing ghosts from his past.

The trail leads to an old friend turned shady businessman. But the deeper Raven goes, the more tangled the lies become – and the less he can trust the people around him.

Not everyone wants him solving this case. And not everyone wants him back.

Scarborough holds secrets. And someone will kill to keep them hidden.

Set on the North Yorkshire coast, the Tom Raven series is perfect for fans of David J Gatward, J M Dalgliesh, Simon McCleave, and British crime fiction.

©2022 Margarita and Steve Morris (P)2025 Margarita and Steve Morris Crime Detective Fiction International Mystery & Crime Mystery Police Procedural Traditional Detectives England Murder British Thrillers British Police Procedural

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I don’t think I shall read
Any more of these novels. Characters are not inspiring.

A longwinded and boring

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New author and narrator ok. Look forward to next title initial first title good .

Book 1

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A nice, easy listen with pleasant background scenery! The characters were strong and the plot interesting. Sadly I thought the narration let it down.

YORKSHIRE LANDSCAPE

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The story engaging enough but the narrator's odd inflections spoil the book. I may read the other books in the series

Weird Narration

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Good story but narration a bit off putting. The characters voices were great, but the story in between very monotone

Narration

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I think this might be a good book. Unfortunately, the boring monotone of the narrator means I can't be bothered to finish it. I like to listen to audiobooks in bed night and morning but this one kept sending me to sleep. No change of voice for the different characters and sentences run together without pause. I might try future books by this author but not if they use the same narrator.

Disappointing

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Really enjoyed this story, it kept me guess till the very end.
But the narrator, well it was mixed. The character voices were good but during the actual narration he seemed to have developed a habit of adding a strange inflection at the end of each sentence. I nearly gave up but stuck with it because it was such a great storyline.

Great story

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I struggled to stay with this book, although I liked the story line.
The narrator, however, was dreadful. all the characters sounded the same, and all sounded like the residents of a home for the very elderly.
The awful narration spoilt this for me and I will give any books with this narrator a wide berth in future.
Shame as I would have liked to hear more of DCI Raven

Good story - dreadful narratir

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storyline but very badly performed by Dan Calley. He read it so fast it was almost as if he needed to be somewhere. Such a shame.

Interesting

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A good story with twists and turns to the end. Looking forward to the next.
Some accents were not Yorkshire. I kept slipping between Liverpool, Australia and elsewhere but never North Yorkshire.

Good story but narration took getting used to

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