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The Walker on the Cape
- Sgt. Windflower Mystery Series, Book 1
- Narrated by: Francis G. Kearney
- Series: Sgt. Windflower Mystery Series, Book 1
- Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Mystery
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- Deedra
- 04-06-20
The Walker on the Cape
I absoultely loved this book!It was set in Newfoundland,with many different types of people.Sargent Windflower and his sleepy little town are rocked to find an old codger dead,and not from natural causes.This leads to many things coming to the surface. Francis G. Kearney was a fine narrator.I especially loved his Newfieisms. I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.'
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- missy50s
- 06-06-21
Couldn’t Get Into This One
I found the dialogue stilted and the characters unsympathetic. Windflower is not a Brunetti or even a Montalbano.
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- Jan
- 02-04-21
One of my favourites!
RCMP, law-enforcement, Canada, Newfoundland, murder-investigation, organized-crime, procedural, police-corruption
***** Excellent! Super mystery with lots of interesting characters and plot twists set in Newfoundland, CA. The main character is Sgt Windflower who originally hailed from Alberta, but has come to really enjoy the work and the people of the allegedly sleepy small town near the Atlantic Ocean. This is the first in series and sets the pace for the rest. I happened to start with number five so maybe I enjoyed this one a differently, but don't let that stop anyone else from beginning wherever they might. The publisher's blurb gives some good hints and there's no need for recap or spoilers. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did!
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- Lucy Weber
- 18-11-19
Great New Series!
New to me, anyway. I love the narrator's voice, and learning about a new place is always a bonus! Please add the rest of the titles in the series...
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- Priyanka Athavale
- 04-08-19
Good read
The Walker on the Cape is a well-crafted story of a man who ends up dead on his walk, with the world calling it suicide but one man believing his instincts that it was in fact, murder. The story moves at a sound pace, but there are times when it does get a little slow. I'd have loved to have some more thrill or action within the plotline, but it still flows well. Also, it would have been more fun to listen had there been some more twists or an additional mystery to keep things alive. Don't get me wrong; this is a great audio book and I'd recommend it to anyone who likes mysteries. There was an element of surprise in the book, and the author has done a great job of sticking to the storyline throughout; never once does the story dawdle. Finished this book within 2 days and already bought the next!
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- K N
- 15-07-19
Well Read
The Walker on the Cape: Sgt. Windflower Mystery Series, Book 1 by Mike Martin is a murder mystery set in Newfoundland. The reader sounds like he is from that area and it makes the book even that much better. Elias Martin dies as he takes a walk along the cape, a walk he took daily. During the autopsy it is found that he died of poisoning. Sergeant Winston Windflower of the RCMP is the lead investigator, with his sidekick Tizzard. I enjoyed the story and really liked that the story was of Canadian Mounties. Definitely worth the purchase to listen to.
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- Ms Peach
- 02-07-19
He said he said he said
Good characters, good plot. Horrible dialogue. He said he said he said. I can’t believe the editor did not help this author out with OTHER VERBS. Or suggested constructing dialogue, he looked into her green eyes, what do you think? As he reached for his cup of coffee. NO “HE SAID” NECESSARY. The narrator was very pleasant to listen too.
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- Mariuca Asavoaie
- 10-06-19
A great opening to a mystery series
Even though my native language is not English, I have found very relaxing to listen to audiobooks, especially those that keep me on the edge of my seat. The Walker on the Cape is the perfect example of a mystery book, with many twists and turns, and a town filled with secrets. Sgt. Windflower is being set face to face with an interesting case, that firstly seemed like an accident, but, in fact, is a murder. The whole investigation brings to the surface the fact that every town has its little secrets. Being the first of the series, I am looking forward to reading more from Mike Marin and see what the Sergeant will try to solve next.
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- quirru
- 12-05-19
Good Job!
The Walker on the Cape Sgt. Windflower Mystery Series, Book 1 written by Mike Martin and Narrated by Francis G. Kearney, it is a simple story about a murdered man and the way they do the investigation in a little town on the eastern coast of Canada. The story starts with comments about the man that is found dead in the Cape, Elias, he was a widow that misses his dead wife and how he talks to her every morning while he walks to the Cape. When they find him, they think it was a heart attack, but then the coroner find some poison in the body, so it turns to be a murder and the Sergeant Windflower starts his investigation, I love this character, because unlike many other “principals” he is a simple man with a simple life, and he does his best to do a great job. He also has his heart on Shiela, the owner of the local coffee shop. The narrator is very good, he pronounces the words completely and articulated so is very easy to understand what he says, capital in an audiobook, also he gives the right inflection all the time and even he changes his voice to do the women voices different a little more acute.
I love the story because of its simplicity but at the same time the mystery enough to make you continue hearing the book.
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- Faith Lee
- 10-05-19
A slow moving mystery
“The Walker On The Cape” is the first book of the Windflower series. The story is about a man whom, after he lost his wife, takes a long walk around the coast every day at the same time each day. One day, this man’s body was found and everyone thinks the death is a result of stroke or heart attack. Sergeant Winston Windflower takes on the case as it is later discovered that the man had been poisoned. The secrets of this small community are then slowly uncovered in the process of Windflower’s investigation.
The story plot is rather interesting but I find that the pace is too slow. I find myself speeding up the audio to get the story moving faster. I think the suspense of the story took too long to build up and I lost interest somewhere in the middle. I also have to admit that I didn’t enjoy the narration all that much.
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- Amanda Adams
- 03-05-19
My first Newfie mystery novel/audiobook
The Walker on the Cape (Sgt. Windfower Mystery #1)
by Mike Martin
*This first portion is specific to GoodReads, not Audible.com or Amazon.com/Kindle*
I'm sorry but I have to call out Goodreads or whoever entered this audiobook there because as you can see above, the title character is spelled W-i-n-d-f-o-w-e-r not WindfLower (or it was as on the date of this review). I noticed that it was an odd but perhaps clever opportunity for the author to go a bit off the reservation with something as simple as a character's name to set his aside from hundreds of other detective series. So... when I began listening and heard the Sgt.'s name pronounced WindfLower, I was thinking, shame on the narrator, that's a big mistake. But it is NOT the fault of the narrator and before you know it, I, as a reader, am thinking more about that discrepancy than what is happening in the story I'm listening to. That is something I think, I, as an author, might be fairly perturbed about.
Beyond that, I thought this story was.. cute. I know that's probably not what the author wants it described as but that's where I am. The townsfolk were quirky and fun, perfectly fleshed out for their role in the plot. Sgt. Windflower felt, to me, like your second choice for prom date but not your "ugh, if no one else asks me I'll go with...". I just didn't really care about him personally, beyond his role in the mystery. The mystery the plot is surrounded by was not necessarily tightly spun but it was enough where I wanted to know the ending. And speaking of the ending, I will admit I thought it was deeper than I expected. In fact, overall, the entire thing felt deeper than its individual parts - meaning that I found the characters to be so so, the mystery level to be so so, peripheral plots to be so so... And in the end, when I sit to think about The Walker on the Cape, I definitely cannot say I hated it. I have many friends I would recommend the book to.
*Something it did take me a while to get past - the Canadian accent of the narrator. I am quite sure it is perfect, but I'm a Southern American and I'm not sure two dialects could be more different than American South and Newfie.