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Title: Do or Die
Subtitle: An Inspector Green Mystery
Author: Barbara Fradkin
Narrator: Kevin Kraft
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-30-14
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 16 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective
Publisher's Summary:
Another freezing winter descends in seeming peace upon the Northern Ontario lake where realtor Belle Palmer lives genteelly with her dog, tropical fishes and classic film collection. But the snow-laden tranquility is tragically disturbed when a good friend is lost in a freak snowmobile accident on an isolated lake. Or so it seems. Belle and others suspect foul play, but a motive and a criminal prove hard to find. Resort owners, anti-environmentalists and the new local drug dealers may all have had reason to want Jim Burian quietly removed, and information isn't forthcoming. Belle is determined to find out what happened to this decent man, but she is shocked when she discovers what twisted roots underlie this savage crime on idyllic northern ice.
Members Reviews:
Good Mystery but Investigators Back-Story Weak
A student is knifed in the library of a University in Ottawa. Did it happen because of his love life, his role in the investigation of a possible research scandal or due to his family's circumstances.
I thought the mystery and the investigation were fairly strong and entertaining. The bits that I found maddening involved the characterization and the backstory of Inspector Green and the other detectives. I don't have to have likeable and moral characters in the mysteries I read, in fact the ones I enjoy the most involve shades of gray. Inspector Green however almost seems to have been done by the numbers: Obsessed investigator-- check. Marriage in trouble-- check. Father dying-- check. New baby-- check. He was a total jerk to his wife and she wasn't a strong enough character to stand up to him in any meaningful way. I was rooting for her to dump him by the time the book ended.
The author has written more in this series so I will maybe dip into a later book to see if I'm still as annoyed by Inspector Green's family life as I was in this one. There's potential if the author could just find the right balance.
The narrator didn't really add anything to the book. Competent but uninspiring.
A Good Start to this Series
Where does Do or Die rank among all the audiobooks youve listened to so far?
I partially agree with the review above. I've also listened to (or read) a few of the Inspector Green books and yes, in this one Green and his wife Sharon do have an edginess in that sometimes make them hard to like. But I wouldn't omit this book from your listening list because the characters are still in development. Rather I'd say it's essential because it sets the stage for the rest of the series.
"Do or Die" really spells out clearly where they came from (second-marriage stressed-out new parents living in a tiny rented apartment). But they definitely get warmer to each other, and to us. As Green's work ethic, passion for deductive reasoning and pursuit of justice puts his new second family life precariously on the edge time and time again, I found myself rooting for them because I knew, from "Do or Die", how far them came.
Did the plot keep you on the edge of your seat? How?
Definitely! The plot is murder mystery set in the high brow setting of an cutting edge brain research program on the edge of a breakthrough, complete with all the competitiveness and backstabbing that can occur in academia.
The author clearly did her homework.
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Title: Do or Die
Subtitle: An Inspector Green Mystery
Author: Barbara Fradkin
Narrator: Kevin Kraft
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-30-14
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 16 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective
Publisher's Summary:
Another freezing winter descends in seeming peace upon the Northern Ontario lake where realtor Belle Palmer lives genteelly with her dog, tropical fishes and classic film collection. But the snow-laden tranquility is tragically disturbed when a good friend is lost in a freak snowmobile accident on an isolated lake. Or so it seems. Belle and others suspect foul play, but a motive and a criminal prove hard to find. Resort owners, anti-environmentalists and the new local drug dealers may all have had reason to want Jim Burian quietly removed, and information isn't forthcoming. Belle is determined to find out what happened to this decent man, but she is shocked when she discovers what twisted roots underlie this savage crime on idyllic northern ice.
Members Reviews:
Good Mystery but Investigators Back-Story Weak
A student is knifed in the library of a University in Ottawa. Did it happen because of his love life, his role in the investigation of a possible research scandal or due to his family's circumstances.
I thought the mystery and the investigation were fairly strong and entertaining. The bits that I found maddening involved the characterization and the backstory of Inspector Green and the other detectives. I don't have to have likeable and moral characters in the mysteries I read, in fact the ones I enjoy the most involve shades of gray. Inspector Green however almost seems to have been done by the numbers: Obsessed investigator-- check. Marriage in trouble-- check. Father dying-- check. New baby-- check. He was a total jerk to his wife and she wasn't a strong enough character to stand up to him in any meaningful way. I was rooting for her to dump him by the time the book ended.
The author has written more in this series so I will maybe dip into a later book to see if I'm still as annoyed by Inspector Green's family life as I was in this one. There's potential if the author could just find the right balance.
The narrator didn't really add anything to the book. Competent but uninspiring.
A Good Start to this Series
Where does Do or Die rank among all the audiobooks youve listened to so far?
I partially agree with the review above. I've also listened to (or read) a few of the Inspector Green books and yes, in this one Green and his wife Sharon do have an edginess in that sometimes make them hard to like. But I wouldn't omit this book from your listening list because the characters are still in development. Rather I'd say it's essential because it sets the stage for the rest of the series.
"Do or Die" really spells out clearly where they came from (second-marriage stressed-out new parents living in a tiny rented apartment). But they definitely get warmer to each other, and to us. As Green's work ethic, passion for deductive reasoning and pursuit of justice puts his new second family life precariously on the edge time and time again, I found myself rooting for them because I knew, from "Do or Die", how far them came.
Did the plot keep you on the edge of your seat? How?
Definitely! The plot is murder mystery set in the high brow setting of an cutting edge brain research program on the edge of a breakthrough, complete with all the competitiveness and backstabbing that can occur in academia.
The author clearly did her homework.