ONE TO WATCH
Narrator: Alison Campbell
Length: 7 hours 27 minutes
Publisher: Saxon Publishing
Sub-Genres: Mystery, Police Procedural
Narrator: Alison Campbell
Length: 7 hours 27 minutes
Publisher: Saxon Publishing
Sub-Genres: Mystery, Police Procedural
Sophie Whittaker shared a terrifying secret. Hours later, she was dead.
Detective Kay Hunter and her colleagues are shocked by the vicious murder of a teenage girl at a private party in the Kentish countryside.A tangled web of dark secrets is exposed as twisted motives point to a history of greed and corruption within the tight-knit community.Confronted by a growing number of suspects and her own enemies who are waging a vendetta against her, Kay makes a shocking discovery that will make her question her trust in everyone she knows.One to Watch is a gripping murder mystery thriller, and the third in the Detective Kay Hunter series. A whodunit for fans of Jeffery Deaver, Peter James, David Baldacci, and James Patterson.
Before turning to writing, Rachel Amphlett played guitar in bands, worked as a TV and film extra, dabbled in radio as a presenter and freelance producer for the BBC, and worked in publishing as a sub-editor and editorial assistant.She now wields a pen instead of a plectrum and writes crime fiction and spy novels, including the Dan Taylor espionage novels and the Detective Kay Hunter series.
Originally from the UK and currently based in Brisbane, Australia, Rachel cites her writing influences as Michael Connelly, Lee Child, and Robert Ludlum. She’s also a huge fan of Peter James, Val McDermid, Robert Crais, Stuart MacBride, and many more.
She’s a member of International Thriller Writers and the Crime Writers Association, with the Italian foreign rights for her debut novel, White Gold sold to Fanucci Editore's TIMECrime imprint, and the first four books in the Dan Taylor espionage series contracted to Germany’s Luzifer Verlag.
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HALL
WAYS REVIEW: Audio Book Review. Having listened to the
prior two books straight through in one day, I prepared myself to do the same
with One to Watch, the third
installment in the Detective Kay Hunter series by Rachel Amphlett. It was a
good move! One to Watch starts with a
creepy crime and is non-stop twists and turns until the finish. In terms of the
whodunit aspect, I was confident that I had solved the mysteries -- and was
consistently wrong.
While the book can stand
alone, there is a definite advantage to reading the prior books to feel the
slow-build of the side stories going on in the background of the primary crime
to be solved. In One to Watch, those
backstories seem to be less prominent than in prior books and the focus is more
heavily on the crime and all the interviews with suspects. Nonetheless, those sub-plots
are moving forward and the tension is mounting. And grief is a common thread that
runs through all the stories.
Admittedly, I am thoroughly
hooked on this series, but I found this installment wasn’t quite up to the same
level as the other books thus far. There were times when DC Kay Hunter seemed uncharacteristically
insensitive, and the descriptions were at times lackluster with some repetitive
words and phrases (too much glaring and too much repeating of “I can’t believe
she’s gone.”). And, the characterization
of Larch has gone stale – he just didn’t add anything to the story this time
and has lost his threatening edge. Strangely, I miss that.
The narration by Alison Campbell
is still excellent, and she IS Kay Hunter and several of our other regular
characters. In One to Watch, for the
first time in the series, I had some trouble distinguishing between a couple of
the male characters’ voices. Additionally, though she has a convincing American
accent, there are numerous slips that detract from it (namely, adding the ‘r’
sound to the ends of words: idea sounds like idear, for example.) On the other
hand, one of the most charming aspects of the series is that it’s delightfully
British, so I really didn’t mind the American mispronunciations.
That I eagerly listened to all
seven and a half hours of One to Watch, straight
through, attests to Amphlett’s skill as a master storyteller – and Campbell’s skill
at bringing the voices to life. I
absolutely recommend this book and series, and downloaded the next installment,
Hell to Pay (book 4), as soon as I finished listening to
book three.
Thank you to the author and
Audiobookworm Promotions for providing me a free download in exchange for my
honest opinion – the only kind I give.
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