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Title: The Diviner's Son
Author: Gary Crew
Narrator: Michael Veitch
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-28-08
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective
Publisher's Summary:
Horse-breeder Christopher Mansell has lost his wife and his daughter, as well as his memory of the night they were brutally murdered. He is tormented by the thought that he is to blame. A chance encounter with a fairground diviner and his captive 'son', who is said to talk to the dead, pricks his curiosity. Although originally skeptical, his troubling dreams make finding this boy a necessity and he begins to search him out in the neighboring towns. The murder inquiry is moving slowly and it seems everyone is a suspect, and Christopher must find out once and for all who killed his wife and daughter.
Editorial Reviews:
Narrator Michael Veitch's low-key but intense performance subtly explores the complex emotions in this story about horse breeder Christopher Mansell, who has lost his wife and daughter in a brutal murder. Tormented by the thought that he may be to blame, Christopher hears about a fairground diviner's captive "son" who can communicate with the dead. Despite his skepticism, Christopher seeks out the boy to find resolution. Veitch voices the characters with well-etched personalities - it's clear that he understand who they are, even if they may not know themselves. Listeners will appreciate his careful pacing, which allows time to absorb the details of this touching story.
Critic Reviews:
"Michael Veitch reads with just the right tone of understated emotion, letting the writing speak, rather than forcing the story with verbal tricks. His pacing is perfect--quick yet clear when the plot demands and replete with enough pauses for the listener to consider the oddity of the action. A terrific listen." (Audiofile Magazine)
Members Reviews:
"They Don't Come Knocking on Your Skull?"
Set in colonial Tasmania, and told through several points of view (including first person and third person narrative, letters between a mother and daughter and dispersed with accurate newspaper accounts of the 1840's `Fox rappings'), we meet Christopher Mansel, a middle aged horse-breeder and his unhappy household. A few months previously, Mansel's wife and daughter were found bloodily murdered in the summerhouse whilst Mansel wandered the ground drunk. He cannot remember a thing about that night, only that he came to in the summerhouse covered in blood, as was his stable boy Virgil Morrisey. Now he's haunted by the tragic night, unsure of his own involvement in their deaths and mystified as to why his family was killed in the first place.
Living a wretched half-life where his only interest is the well-being of his horses, Mansel is wandering about a fairground when he comes across a dubious diviner named Henry Jones who claims to heal all physical ailments. More to Mansel's interest though is the youth that Jones identifies as his son, a boy named Abel Hawkings and who claims to communicate with the dead. Both repulsed and fascinated by his claims, Mansel arranges a series of meetings with Abel who reveals both his powers and his tragic past - and promises to communicate with Mansel's family.
Meanwhile - just to complicate matters - Sergeant James Riley has renewed interest in the case, and is asking several strange questions concerning their deaths.
