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The Body in the Dales

A Yorkshire Murder Mystery, Book 1

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The Body in the Dales

By: J. R. Ellis
Narrated by: Michael Page
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An unpopular victim. An impossible crime. A murderer on the loose.

Revised edition: Previously published as The Body in Jingling Pot, this edition of The Body in the Dales includes editorial revisions.

A body is discovered deep in a cave beneath the Yorkshire Dales. Leading the investigation into the mysterious death are experienced DCI Jim Oldroyd and his partner DS Carter, a newcomer from London.

The deceased is Dave Atkins, well known throughout the village but not well liked. While there is no shortage of suspects, the details of the crime leave Oldroyd and Carter stumped. How did Atkins’s body end up in such a remote section of the cave? When someone with vital information turns up dead, it becomes clear that whoever is behind the murders will stop at nothing to conceal their tracks.

Oldroyd and his team try to uncover the truth, but every answer unearths a new set of questions. And as secrets and lies are exposed within the close-knit community, the mystery becomes deeper, darker and more complex than the caves below.

©2017, 2018 J. R. Ellis (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Cosy Crime Crime Thrillers Fiction Murder Mystery Police Procedural Thriller & Suspense England Thriller
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I didn’t like the narrator but the story was ok
Don’t think I will get the next book

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I won’t be buying any more books with this narrator think he ruined the story

Ok bad narrator

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well I love listening to David Thorpe so I was happy to find this what i though was a little gem., but I was sadly disappointed. Story is good and like the characters. What I didn't like was that the book wasnt fact checked very well. Harrogate even though it has an O in it is sounded A. very off putting when you live there. And Harrogate Police is in North Yorkshire not West. ok rant over.

great story

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The story is ok, a bit stereotypical and derivative but ok. Unfortunately the narration by Michael Page was dreadful, truly dire. It was a performance worthy of the worst end of am-dram. The growly male voices were awful and the falsetto women's voices were verging on hilarious, and I can only assume Mr Page has never heard a Yorkshire accent, and is a devotee of Peter Sellers or Spike Milligan in The Goons. The performance really got in the way of the story and was intensely irritating

Good story but the performance !!!

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This story was spoiled for me by the dreadful attempt at the Yorkshire accent and the awful tremulous voice given to female characters
Overall not as good as reading a book by this author

Good enough story

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