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The Secret Voices

A Cora Lael Mystery 1

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The Secret Voices

By: MJ White
Narrated by: Lucy Scott
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They said, 'It's okay, Hannah. You know you can trust me.'

They lied.

When eight-year-old Hannah Perry goes missing in the small Suffolk village of St Just, the community is rocked. Heading up the investigation is Acting DS Rob Minshull, but he's out of his depth in a case that seems to mirror the disappearance of a young boy, seven years ago. That search ended in unimaginable tragedy... and Minshull is praying that history won't be repeated.

But with an investigation full of dead ends, and a kidnapper taunting the police with sinister deliveries of Hannah's belongings and cryptic notes, the young girl's life hangs perilously in danger.

Until Dr Cora Lael enters the picture. A psychologist with a unique ability, Cora's rare gift allows her to sense emotions attached to discarded objects. When she is shown the first of Hannah's belongings, she hears the child's piercing scream.

With few leads on the case, could Cora prove Hannah's only hope? And as time runs out, can they find Hannah before history repeats itself?

A twisty, original and utterly gripping detective thriller that fans of James Oswald and LJ Ross will love. Don't miss the crime thriller debut from the bestselling women's fiction author, Miranda Dickinson.

MJ White is the pseudonym for bestselling author Miranda Dickinson. She is the Sunday Times Bestselling author of ten books, and has been shortlisted twice for RNA awards (Fairytale of New York and It Started With a Kiss). She has been published in fifteen languages. The Secret Voices is her first crime novel.

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An unusual premise and an engaging cast of characters. What more could you want from a crime debut? I flew through it.
-- Mari Hannah, author of Her Last Request and Without a Trace

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Thrilling

If you're tired of police procedurals and want a book with something a little extra then this is for you.

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Pathetic heroine

The story was good but the heroine Cora was pathetic and it always irritates me when women “just want to be normal”. Rubbish. I never needed to feel normal in the sense of being like the majority and Cora has a gift worth having and of potentially great benefit to others. If there are to be more novels about her then I hope she pulls herself up by her bootstraps and stops being so dependent on the approval of others and uses her ability to help.

I’m not sure if I shall bother with her when there are so many great audiobooks to enjoy. It always disappoints me when female writers portray women characters as needing to be bolstered by others, especially by men, and makes me want to shout “what happened to women’s lib” and slap the female character. At least the “baddie” was unexpected but I can’t say more as I’d hate to ruin this novel for others. Tis a pity this is the second audiobook out of five listened to so far this week where the heroine was a tad stupid and needed a good shake. Thank goodness for The Bookseller of Inverness read by the glorious David Monteath between the two. That novel I heartily recommend.

I do wish to register approval of Lucy Scott, the narrator, who has a pleasant voice, thankfully not an irritating high silly voice which stops me ordering an audiobook if I hear it in time. I’ve started checking whether or not there are examples of narration when perusing the forthcoming delights and being intrigued by the storyline but now being wary of female narrators, some of whom have hideous voices. Voices are exceedingly personal choices and a couple of major British male narrators who narrate certain authors’ series and are beloved by the majority of Audible members apparently I find either horribly common or too histrionic.

However, I’m so very grateful that Audible exists as my eyes could never cope with reading as many physical books as I can listen to audiobooks and the bliss of being plugged into my iPhone, often all day and into the evening, cannot be underestimated. I was never keen on physical work such as housework and at least nowadays in my mid-seventies I can do the few chores (apart from the privilege of looking after my animal friends) which I’m prepared to undertake whilst enjoying the labours of all these gifted writers.

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