great story!

Loved the many parts of this story! And the narrator is fantastic! Found this book by searching the narrator, and am downloading the next in the series now!

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Amazing Suspense and Character Development!

This is the first time in a long while that an author so utterly pulled the rug out from under me with a truly clever plot twist! These characters are made for TV (and I mean that as a sincere compliment)...the players have layers of depth that can be teased out for many novels to come. Thank you, Sam Blake, for a true escape into the world of the Irish Guarda (or Guardi??). And as always, Aoife McMahon was brilliant in her narration...she truly brought your characters to life!

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Don't waste your time

The author has tried too hard to be clever. There are too many characters in little mini plots. All eventually tie together but it is poorly done. Does not create suspense, only confusion. I found the book pretty boring.

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Not a conclusive book

I found this book to be a bit annoying. The main character is pregnant and a kick boxer.. she workouts out kick boxing but is afraid of running while pregnant... And she can't think straight because she is pregnant... and she can basically control her vomiting... Vomits only when convenient.

The accents are not well done.

And this ends like the first section of a book, not like an entire book... the story doesn't conclude, not even close. So I don't think it is worth starting.

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Okay Story

The book was okay and performed good but it skipped throughout the playing of the reading.

AWFULL!!!!

I got to chapter 24 before I finally decided that I had had enough. I should have bailed out at chapter two.
Boring story, boring characters. "You will not be able to put it down" the cover said. I should never have picked it up.
One of the very few books I will be requesting a credit for.

dumb, soapy, melodramatic and ends on cliffhanger

also, this is not this book's worst offence, but oooof, the accents are borderline hate crime.

Kept me on edge

Twist and surprises throughout great listen characters were throughout and believable looking forward to the rest of the trilogy

Clumsy and irritating

I really wanted to like this book but finished only because I am self isolating due to the coronavirus. I am a fan of other crime writers whose work is set in Ireland but this was such an unsophisticated example of the genre. Listening as I walked outside, I nearly yelled a few times about obvious questions that should have been asked, steps that of course would have been taken and other actions that seemed merely plot contrivances to make things come out the way the author wanted. The heroine, Cat Connolly, is simply not believable as a mid 20s year old champion kick boxer who also almost lost her life defending another policeman, who is already a detective and who is now pregnant from a one night stand. Way too much time spent on the pregnancy, followed by a surprise reveal at the very end as to who was the father. It is not fair for an author to strew so many red herrings!. Several plots all going at once that conveniently come together in a way that strains credulity. The narrator was good but she had little to work with. I cannot recommend this series.

Terrible Ending

Love the narrator and the plot. However, there were far too many loose ends and unresolved plot lines. I get it, this is the first book of an eventual series. Ending the book in this way forces the reader to crave the next book in the hope of getting some answers. But for me, it had the opposite effect. I feel duped as there was no payoff for the reader of this book; therefore, I can’t trust the author to deliver on the next book. Finally, although the plot was good, stylistically there was too much “telling”. As we’ve been told by all of our writing teachers and professors, at least when it comes to fiction: “show, don’t tell”. Far too much telling compared to showing in this book.