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Dead Wrong
- Calladine and Bayliss, Book 1
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
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Summary
First a shooting, then a grisly discovery on the common....
Police partners, D.I. Calladine and D.S. Ruth Bayliss race against time to track down a killer before the whole area erupts in violence. Their boss thinks it's all down to drug lord Ray Fallon, but Calladine's instincts say something far nastier is happening on the Hobfield housing estate. Can this duo track down the murderer before anyone else dies and before the press publicise the gruesome crimes?
Detectives Calladine and Bayliss are led on a trail which gets dangerously close to home. In a thrilling finale they race against time to rescue someone very close to Calladine's heart. If you like Angela Marsons, Rachel Abbott, Mel Sherratt, Ruth Rendell, or Mark Billingham you will be gripped by this exciting new crime fiction writer.
Dead Wrong is the first in a new series of detective thrillers featuring D.S. Ruth Bayliss and D.I. Tom Calladine. Tom Calladine is a single, 51-year-old detective inspector who is devoted to his job. His personal life, however, is not so successful.
Having been married and divorced before the age of 21 has set a pattern that he finds difficult to escape. Ruth Bayliss is in her mid-30s, plain-speaking but loyal. She wishes she had more time for the gym and a love life. She uses her demanding workload as an excuse not to try too hard with the men she meets. The series is set in the fictional village of Leesdon on the outskirts of an industrial northern English city. There is little work and a lot of crime.
The bane of Calladine's life is the Hobfield housing estate, breeding ground to all that is wrong with the area that he calls home.
Critic reviews
"A must-read new police procedural that will have you gripped. The characters, setting, and plot are detailed and believable. Can’t wait for the next one." (Sarah Stevens)
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- LJ
- 03-07-16
Not for Mark Billingham fans
What could Helen H. Durrant have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?
Not describe women as either "struggling with her weight" or a "stunner", and write grammatical English (a person is sitting, not sat).
What does Jonathan Keeble bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?
An excellent job of bringing banal characters to life.
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The storyline is obvious, the characters generic, and the writing is extremely poor.
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- muggsie
- 24-11-17
disappointing
I thought the torture scenes were overly graphic...chilling to begin with...The they went on too long..became almost gratuitous and somewhat lost credibility
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- Jean
- 05-07-18
Couldn’t finish it
Really poor writing. Why is she so obsessed with women’s weight?
Reader’s portrayal of female characters makes them sound like men in drag.
Plot very banal and predictable.
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- D. Ross
- 18-02-17
Dead wrong
This book is not for the faint hearted, contains graphic and gruesome scenes. I did not finish it
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- Colette
- 18-10-16
Just not good
Didn't like any of the protagonists, didn't like the writing, didn't like the many references to weight as a means of describing people.
Narrator did his best in the circumstances.
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- Jay Clark
- 14-10-20
Good start to a promising series
I never write reviews but felt the need to due to the misleading reviews of others. This book is not anymore gruesome or graphic than any other crime thriller. I read some reviews and half expected a police procedural version of the Saw films, get a grip. Good story albeit a bit samey but essentially that's all I want in crime detective series. Similar to Helen Fields, David Blake and LJ Ross that I've read prior to this. Also...the wonderful Jonathan Keeble does a great job again narrating. I'm happy to find another good series to get stuck into and onto book 2 for me
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- Anne C.
- 31-10-16
Calladine and Bayliss get their first hit !
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
Yes.
What about Jonathan Keeble’s performance did you like?
Very well read by Jonathan Keeble and I liked the fact that you tell when he was portraying a female voice without him sounding too "camp".
Any additional comments?
I shall definitely be looking out for the next in the series.
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- S. Murdoch
- 07-08-18
Nothing wrong just formula
Nothing wrong just a formula. No twist was unpredictable. Not s bad version of the sane old story.
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- D. Gauden-Wells
- 24-07-18
loved it.
easy to follower.
interesting story line
reader good at the doing the voices
would buy another book.
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- zach1301
- 06-11-18
Easy to follow while doing other tasks
loved it. nice easy simple listen with a cheeky twist in it. will keep you wondering all the way through. can't wait to listen the other books
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