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Cemetery Lake

Theodore Tate, Book 1

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Cemetery Lake

By: Paul Cleave
Narrated by: Paul Ansdell
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A heart-thumping, no-holds-barred murder mystery that keeps you guessing until the end.

Some secrets won't stay buried . . .

A standard exhumation becomes anything but for private investigator Theodore Tate when bodies begin bubbling to the surface of the cemetery lake. Tate knows he has to let it go and let his former colleagues in the police deal with it. But when the coffin is opened and its occupant is not the old man supposed to be inside, he knows he cannot walk away. But he cannot let the police keep digging, because they are getting dangerously close to digging up the real truth: the truth about him.

With the evidence mounting against him, Tate must use his skills to stay ahead of the police and out of jail in order to find a killer. A killer on a mission. A person who will kill again and again. A person who will turn Tate into the very man he despises.

©2024 Paul Cleave (P)2024 Dreamscape Media
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went on a bit but a good story, shame about the use off dollars on at least 3 occasions in what was supposed to be a British story, accents were good and narrator was good.

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Excellent really good story suspense till the end didn’t expect the ending very good will check on other books

Twists in the story

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I love this novel and I want to listen to the rest of the series. The narrator is very good but he;s English and the novel is set in New Zealand. It sounds wrong when he reads the New Zealand English.

Great novel, wrong narrator

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Where to start? This was maybe the worst book I’ve ever listened to on here.

It managed to combine everything you don’t want in an audiobook. Bad narration, with a bad story that was lazily transferred to audio and a main character so unlikeable that I wanted him to get caught by the bad guy.

About a quarter of the way in you realise that the book is set in New Zealand but for some reason despite making no attempt to alter places, names or small things like currency the narrator decides to voice it in regional British and Irish accents. It’s quite off-putting .

The man character who I guess is supposed to have shades of grey due to his actions and tragedy is completely unlikeable . His actions are often bemusing and he continually has conversations where he somehow always gets his way by continually telling the other person “it’s important” offering no more despise him being thought of as an awful human for most of them. It makes zero sense.

The story drags out, making huge leaps to somehow get this main guy away with acting however he wants and the reveal of the actual killer doesn’t really explain his actions which im certain the author was trying to do.

Spend your time how you wish but personally I’d avoid this.

Awful.

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