Recommended!

All true crime fans will appreciate this run down of some of Britain’s most horrific murders. Yes, due to the compendium nature of the book, it is concise - but that is probably its biggest strength. There’s no getting bogged down in detail. Every case is very adequately portrayed and you don’t feel you need to know more than the author provides. The narrator is OK and certainly doesn’t distract with her delivery - as you sometimes find in factual audio books. Wouldn’t hesitate to recommend!

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Excellent book

This was an excellent insight into the minds of murderers, rapist and serial killers. Some of these I had heard of, but others were a complete mystery. Although people like these are in the minority, it is quite scary to think that monsters like these exist and live in society among us mainly undetected. Great book. It won't be for everyone though.

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Horrifying but brilliant

This is not a book to read on your own at night. How people can be so sadistic, murderous and cruel is beyond me. A most fascinating read. Narrator was excellent.

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Relentless & Depressing

I like true crime but found this just too much. It's just one story after another after another of depressing stories of murder & rape, not always sympathetically told. So glad when I finished it (don't like to give up on a book). Only for the hardcore.

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Narration frustration

The content was good, disturbing true life crimes that make your toes curl. Unfortunately the narrators attempt at accents and vocalise the quotations was so off putting and annoying, often sounding like she was mocking the the affected victims meant that I could listen all the way through which is a shame! I couldn’t listen to one more minute!

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I’m just going to buy the book...

I got all of 2 mins 39 seconds into this when the narrator began to put on an accent while recounting a victims account. Completely jarring at best and tone deaf at worst. I’m just going to read the actual book.

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Good book

This is a good book but with one big annoyance for me. The narrators constant impersonations of the characters involved, I found them completely unnecessary and an irritating distraction. It’s quite clear without adapting an imitating voice when you’re reading the quotes of someone else. This aside a good listen, most of the cases I’d heard of but still learnt new details of the cases involved.

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Interesting but not amazingly insightful

seems like a lot of newspaper articles together. Narrator tried to place accents and speech fairly well.

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Comical!

Ok, so this is easy reading of a genre beloved of the British public, written in a jolly Sun journalist sensationalist style, and as such is fine; pre bedtime easy reading. To be fair I don’t think it pretends to be anything else. However, the narration of this fine work is an utter joke. I’m not sure if the comedy accents were done for a dare, or as retribution for some perceived wrong, but they are cringeworthy in the extreme. From the stern ‘you’ve been a naughty man’ judge, slipping up and down an octave, to the squeaky falsetto and baby voice of any female under 18, to the ‘Ivor the engine’ Welshman, it was universally appalling and unnecessary. It certainly seemed a strange work to choose to demonstrate comedic talent, and I’ll be avoiding any more audiobooks narrated by this individual in the future!

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A good book with a but

The author has made an effort to give a brief overview of many cases, which is excellent for the casual listener of true crime in my opinion. However, the narrator cannot do accents! Everytime the author quotes the narrator puts on the accent and it took me out of the narrative completely, like an annoying coworker who doesn't take anything seriously and puts on stupid voices in an effort to be funny!

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