Overall I was disappointed. Poor plot.

The premise of this story sounded good. However it didn't quite work. I had a few issues with the storyline itself, so I'll start there.

I'll start with the plot holes: There was the lack of police procedure. The womans laptop is shown as being looked through for evidence, yet the police leave it to be stolen? I highly doubt that's procedure. Same with the laptop that belonged to the murder victim.

Then there was the way emails were talked about as if they could only be accessed by the person's personal computers. I don't know about you, but my email account can be logged into from any computer!

I'm sure there were more plot holes, but those are the ones that stuck out like a sore thumb for me.

Then there is the overall story. It turns out not to be one thing or another. Is it a thriller, or is it a romance? The thriller part doesn't work for me for the reasons mentioned above. The romance doesn't work because honesty there are huge amounts of time spent comparing 'perfect teeth', and 'straight noses'. With that happening it rapidly becomes boring and repetitive. So much so that I ended up forwarding the story just to check who was to blame for the murders. I guessed that easily as well. Again, not enough plotline to stop you from guessing who the bad guys were. It was pretty obvious.

Then there was at least one factual error. These always put me off faster than any poor storyline. Like I said I ended up fast forwarding to the end of the story, so there could have been more. For an author who has either spent time in the UK, or researched the UK, they talked about the American not wanting to drive in the UK because of being on the wrong side of the road - and because they never grasped the concept of kilometres - seriously? You got something as basic as the way the UK measures its driving distance and speeds wrong? The UK use the same measurements as the US. Always has used miles and mph! If the woman had been Canadian then I might have understood the comment. There were a lot of things that had been got right, but it only takes one major mistake to ruin the whole thing.

That concludes the worst of the storyline issues I had.

Onto performance. Actually, to start with I really wasn't sure about the narrator. I'm used to hearing American narrators so that wasn't the problem. I'm still not sure quite what it was about the narrator's voice that bugged me, but I was surprised to find I warmed to her. Like many Americans, the English accent wasn't terribly good. But the reverse is also true. Very few British actors/actresses can manage a decent American accent. With that in mind, I knew it would be unfair to be critical of that problem. Overall the narrator was the one thing that saved the story for me, and kept me listening long after I would have normally given up!

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