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  • Inspector Hobbes and the Blood

  • Unhuman, Book 1
  • By: Wilkie Martin
  • Narrated by: Tim Campbell
  • Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (352 ratings)
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Inspector Hobbes and the Blood

By: Wilkie Martin
Narrated by: Tim Campbell
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Summary

Set in a small Cotswold town, Inspector Hobbes and the Blood is a fast-paced comedy cozy mystery fantasy about the adventures of Andy, an incompetent reporter, when he is reluctantly working with Inspector Hobbes, a police detective with a reputation. Andy soon finds himself immersed in a world where not everyone is human, and a late-night visit to a churchyard nearly results in grave consequences, and a ghoulish outcome. An accidental fire leads to Andy having to doss in Hobbes's spare room.

Contending with a wave of murder, suicide, and robbery, as well as Hobbes's weirdness, is the just the start; he must also get to grips with Mrs. Goodfellow, Hobbes's housekeeper, who collects teeth. Although they are mostly from humans, she also claims to have some vampire specimens. However, Andy soon finds her wonderful cooking compensates for her eccentricities. Despite Andy believing he is coping, he is nearly unhinged by horror when a stressed Hobbes's concealed nature reveals itself in an orgy of bone-crunching. Yet, coming through unscathed, Andy develops respect and admiration for his host, even when he uses weird, occasionally brutal, methods to begin unravelling the mystery, which would appear to link The Order of the Dragon and Vlad Tepes, the original Dracula, to the crime wave.

When Hobbes goes missing, Andy, with the dubious assistance of Dregs, Hobbes's big, bad dog, and armed with a leg of lamb, searches for him. Will he triumph over crazed blood lust and human sacrifice?

Can Andy with Hobbes's friends, a binge-drinking dwarf and a troll who looks uncannily human, save the day? And can Andy catch vampirism from false teeth?

These and other questions may be answered in Inspector Hobbes and the Blood.

©2013 The Witcherley Book Company (P)2017 The Witcherley Book Company

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Great performance & story - but not quite British

The story is great - plenty of twists and you feel that you’re experiencing each twist with ‘Andy’. The characters are well built and interesting and I will happily listen to the rest of the series.....
The narrator does a great job giving distinct voices for each of the characters and it is well paced and clear to listen to.
However! Whilst Tim Campbell might sound authentically British a lot of the time - he does have some very odd pronunciations - that almost hurt! Andy’s voice is written as less posh than it is read and I found this a little jarring too.

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Not for me.

The narration is so annoying that even if the book had been great, I would have struggled to enjoy it. The voice is far too posh for the character described, and the pronunciation extremely peculiar - like someone’s imagined idea of what an Englishman might sound like. There are a number of references to “harry hands” and “brikfist”, and on one occasion, Hobbes squats on his “honches”. I struggled through 3 chapters wanting to dig my ears out, then wondered why I was torturing myself and gave up.

...So, I can’t comment on the whole of the book. But judging on the first 3 chapters, the jokes were laboured and lame, the main character irritating and I couldn’t bring myself to care what happened next. Not a good start, and ‘difinitely nit my cip of tea’

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Odd Pronunciations Put Me Off...Couldn't Finish

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The story itself is great, as is the writing and the characters. Initially I really liked the narrator too but then I noticed his odd pronunciations on certain words, 'thot' instead of 'thought' was the worst one, it came up a lot and once I had noticed it, it was like a little annoying poke each time, then other words like 'brek-fest' 'reck-ed' (record) just as two examples. It really spoiled it for me and I stopped listening, going to buy the physical book instead so I can finish the story!

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Woah!

Hang on a minute!
What on EARTH is this hideous sound making my ears bleed?
MAKE IT STOP.

Can't judge the story.
Can't... make it....past.....terrible.......narration........

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Escapism at it's best.

Not laugh out loud but very comical. Read book before listening so I knew what was about to occur but the narrator bought the characters to life. Well worth a read and listen.

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Irritating narrator.

The narrator's pronunciation became so bizarre it started to feel like he was deliberately trying to wind me up. A bit like the policeman in 'Ello 'Ello (look it up).
Shame, because I'm sure I could have enjoyed the story.

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What a find!

Have had this book recommended for a while by the auto suggestions on audible but never took the bait until now. The book is great dealing with the supernatural in a humourous way, going straight to the the others in the series now...

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Fantastic book, appalling narration

This is a great book ruined by the narrator. British book by a British author, read by an American pretending, very badly, to be English.

Do yourself a favour and read the books instead.

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Fabulous

Really love these stories their great fun, make me chuckle and the guy that reads them is great

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Couldn't get on with this

I was excited to listen to this book because it is my favourite genre - but it just didn't hook me in. I found the plot weak and it seemed to be repeating itself. Gave up half way through and didn't finish.

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