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Let the Bones Be Charred

The DI Stella Cole Thrillers, Book 4

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By: Andy Maslen
Narrated by: Helen E Moore
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From Kindle Storyteller-Shortlisted Author...a Serial Killer Thriller

The glamorous CEO of an anti-abortion charity has been found horribly mutilated and strangled to death in her own kitchen. Before long, the killer strikes again, and again. And now the pattern emerges. The victims are all high-profile Christians.

Back from the brink of killing herself, and newly promoted to DCI, Stella Cole takes a call from her sergeant that puts her plans on hold. Stella and her team at the Special Investigations Unit are racing to stop the serial killer dubbed “Lucifer” by the media, before he can take another life.

To add to Stella’s problems, London’s ambitious Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime is interfering in her investigation, and someone on the inside is leaking details to the press.

A gritty and disturbing psychological crime thriller....

Let The Bones be Charred is the fourth book in this series of hard-hitting crime thrillers. Following Stella’s recovery from the murders of her husband and child, it brings the troubled detective face to face with a serial killer with a grudge against the Church. The action takes place in the long hot summer of 2018.

Can she track down and stop the killer before any more women are murdered? Including the wife of a university professor who may, just, hold the key to the killer’s motivations and methods.

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©2018 Andy Maslen (P)2021 Andy Maslen
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I absolutely love this series of books but please Helen Moore stop with the accents I actually find myself fast forwarding some of the book to get by the cringe worthy Scottish accents 🤦‍♀️

Give up on the regional accents

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This is a good book spoilt terribly by the narrators efforts at regional accents. Her Scottish accents are appalling and at times impossible to understand

Great take but awful narration

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The Stella Cole stories are well worth reading/listening to and this one would have had 5 stars in all categories, were it not for the extremely irritating attempts at characterisation and accents by the reader.

Excellent story

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I generally just tick the star rating. But on this occasion had to leave a review. The book was brilliant. What a wide ride. I was swept away by this tsunami of a story. If you love crime thrillers, this will not disappoint. Thank you Andy Maslen. Can wait to read book 5 now.

Excellent read, should be 7 stars!

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Stella Cole's fourth outing is much more like a polIce procedural than the first three - and the serial killer's activities are certainly not for the squeamish - but this tale is as compulsive as the earlier ones. Stella is on a much more even keel as she, together with a strong team ( plus a few less helpful characters) wade through the clues in pursuit of the killer(s).
If you can live without Stella's detailed back story you could probably start with this book and maybe treat it as a standalone - but you would be missing out if you do not start with the first book - 'Hit and Run'.
On the down side, I do not think the narration as good in this one - some of the accents were not brill. I thought Helen E. Moore's narration in the first three audio books was suberb; I note that she is not narrating book 5 - which is a shame as far as an concerned, as is the fact that she does not appear to have narrated anything else.
I will be pressing on with great anticipation to the next audiobook.

More conventional but still thrilling

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