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Fatal Isles

By: Maria Adolfsson
Narrated by: Hattie Ladbury
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Summary

A remote island. A brutal murder. A secret hidden in the past....

In the middle of the North Sea, between the UK and Denmark, lies the beautiful and rugged island nation of Doggerland.

Detective Inspector Karen Eiken Hornby has returned to the main island, Heimö, after many years in London and has worked hard to become one of the few female police officers in Doggerland.

So, when she wakes up in a hotel room next to her boss, Jounas Smeed, she knows she's made a big mistake. But things are about to get worse: later that day, Jounas's ex-wife is found brutally murdered. And Karen is the only one who can give him an alibi.

The news sends shockwaves through the tight-knit island community, and with no leads and no obvious motive for the murder, Karen struggles to find the killer in a race against time.

Soon she starts to suspect that the truth might lie in Doggerland's history. And the deeper she digs, the clearer it becomes that even small islands can hide deadly secrets . . .

©2021 Maria Adolfsson (P)2021 Bonnier Books UK

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Excellent “Scandi Noir”

Got this book from a Sunday Times review. So glad I took the chance. This is true to the Scandi Noir genre and has those hooks that just won’t let go.
I would certainly recommend this title.

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A steady Scandi police procedural

If you are looking for a standard Scandi police procedural, with a few twists, then you will enjoy this too. It is not dissimilar to the other books in this genre, and carries the same themes of the outsider female cop, struggling with her personal ghosts, as well as her male dominated environment, but it is still satisfying in its plot and nareative

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very enjoyable

great book & great narrator. well written with a good twist. made me chuckle a few times too (as much as you can reading a book about murder anyway...) 💜

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Felt relentlessly negative about everything

I didn't feel the story was very plausible, though I persevered. Perhaps the storyline , & opinions expressed by the main character, would have been less bleak if we could have had some insights into a few positive thoughts & feelings from this central figure; what a miserable view of life.

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too long

struggled to get through the story. far too much description. doesn't allow for readers own imagination. this makes the pace far too slow. skipped a few chapters and it didnt make any difference to the storyline

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A but long, convoluted but still a good story

I confess to dropping in and out of this one so perhaps that is why there were elements of the narrative which didn’t seem to make sense.

The last few listens were like an attempt to finish a marathon and completed by shear determination, BUT it all started to calm down hold itself together and tidy up ‘most’ loose ends.

I really liked the ending and suddenly felt there was coherence and genuine emotion between the main characters. There are issues dealt with which go beyond the main storyline which ask good questions to anyone with or separated from a family.

There were issues particularly violent element of the story which I felt were left hanging. Maybe I missed them resolving, maybe n they were in a different story, maybe I just fell asleep too many times, or maybe there were two sets of stories with one of them leading to a sequel. Apologies if this is a [spoiler] for anyone!

In summary, perhaps I’m being a bit harsh by knocking of a star in my review, but the narrator’s voice kept going off not a most irritating sing-song style and her excellent voice characterisation was so good that it undeservedly has been docked a star, because some of the other voices see are really really good, sound genuinely in character without being hammed up. Perhaps it’s because the sing-song voice reminded me of a sister-in-law. Sorry.

The other reductionsninnstars is because it is all a bit too looonnnggg.

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Good character and plot

Doggerland is a wonderful creation and Karen is a great character, tough and damaged as all crime cops seem to need to be. The plot ended up being quite satisfying.

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Foul language abounds

This is a completely nasty book ,, its vicious , bad-tempered , sarcastic and the amount of foul language is always absolutely jarring but when its coming out of the mouths of the female characters it really is obscene , it’s completely unnecessary and ruins what could have been a half decent story .

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Very good

I was a bit worried at first.
But as I got into the story it turned
Out very good.

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Excellent listen

Good story, believable characters, engaging narration. Look forward to reading more by this author in the future.

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