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Title: The Altered Case
Author: Peter Turnbull
Narrator: Gordon Griffin
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-01-12
Publisher: Soundings
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective
Publisher's Summary:
When a deep grave containing five skeletons is discovered in the corner of a field, DCI Hennessey and his team of officers from the Vale of York Police are called in to investigate. The burial site had lain undiscovered for over 20 years and was only found after a chance conversation between two old friends revealed the possibly sinister reason for the area of disturbed soil that they had both noticed during their last summer of innocence. The resulting police inquiry soon uncovers a multiple murder that seems to have its roots in a legal dispute between two families which can be traced back to the aftermath of the English Civil War. But have the victims been discovered too late to catch the killer?
Members Reviews:
Five Stars
Great read --love this series!
Turnbull delivers a page turner!
Cyrus Middleton and Tony Allerton are childhood friends. They meet for coffee once a month on Friday night. While reminiscing they discuss something they found when they were 15--a mound in a field that they suspect hides a buried body. Middleton and Allerton decide to take their suspicions, some 30 years later, to the police.
DCI George Hennessey and DC Reginald Webster on the strength of the mens memories accompany them to the field to see if what they suspect is true. The field is owned by a thoroughly unlikeable man named Thomas Farrent. As the police dig in the area they find five bodies. Digging through thirty year old records, the police find a record of a missing family: The Parrs. The murder seems to be rooted in a land dispute of long running, but is it still possible to find the killer?
This is a British police procedural and although not the best that Turnbull has written over the years, it is a good solid mystery that weaves all the pieces together for a satisfactory read.
The Altered Case: (A Hennessey & Yellich Mystery)
Wonderful fun fast read of a mystery. Good plot, good sense of place and character. Like a good mysteries the past comes back to haunt those so assured that they had committed a perfect crime.
An interesting mystery
It was an unusual mystery that investigated a much earlier crime and the methods of investigation, thought, and technique used to solve it.
Very poorly written
I am only up to page 6 and have given up as I can't bear to continue with something so badly written. Was this book even edited? If so, the editor should hang their head in shame. Here is a typical sentence: "They sat in silence as they betook of the beverage, both admiring the slender form of the waitress, who had, they both thought, the mannerisms of a university undergraduate who was working to help her pay her way to a good degree, and the doors that would open for her". "Betook of the beverage" - really? How about "drank"? My mind boggles at what "mannerisms" the waitress displayed that might have told them (and us) all that about her. And as for the dialogue: "I need something else in me other than the slice of toast I had for breakfast in order to go through with this" ... "Likewise...It will psyche us up; help muster the courage to go through with this". Clunk, clunk, clunk. Pity really, because the plot sounded quite interesting and with better editing it might have been a decent read.
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Title: The Altered Case
Author: Peter Turnbull
Narrator: Gordon Griffin
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-01-12
Publisher: Soundings
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective
Publisher's Summary:
When a deep grave containing five skeletons is discovered in the corner of a field, DCI Hennessey and his team of officers from the Vale of York Police are called in to investigate. The burial site had lain undiscovered for over 20 years and was only found after a chance conversation between two old friends revealed the possibly sinister reason for the area of disturbed soil that they had both noticed during their last summer of innocence. The resulting police inquiry soon uncovers a multiple murder that seems to have its roots in a legal dispute between two families which can be traced back to the aftermath of the English Civil War. But have the victims been discovered too late to catch the killer?
Members Reviews:
Five Stars
Great read --love this series!
Turnbull delivers a page turner!
Cyrus Middleton and Tony Allerton are childhood friends. They meet for coffee once a month on Friday night. While reminiscing they discuss something they found when they were 15--a mound in a field that they suspect hides a buried body. Middleton and Allerton decide to take their suspicions, some 30 years later, to the police.
DCI George Hennessey and DC Reginald Webster on the strength of the mens memories accompany them to the field to see if what they suspect is true. The field is owned by a thoroughly unlikeable man named Thomas Farrent. As the police dig in the area they find five bodies. Digging through thirty year old records, the police find a record of a missing family: The Parrs. The murder seems to be rooted in a land dispute of long running, but is it still possible to find the killer?
This is a British police procedural and although not the best that Turnbull has written over the years, it is a good solid mystery that weaves all the pieces together for a satisfactory read.
The Altered Case: (A Hennessey & Yellich Mystery)
Wonderful fun fast read of a mystery. Good plot, good sense of place and character. Like a good mysteries the past comes back to haunt those so assured that they had committed a perfect crime.
An interesting mystery
It was an unusual mystery that investigated a much earlier crime and the methods of investigation, thought, and technique used to solve it.
Very poorly written
I am only up to page 6 and have given up as I can't bear to continue with something so badly written. Was this book even edited? If so, the editor should hang their head in shame. Here is a typical sentence: "They sat in silence as they betook of the beverage, both admiring the slender form of the waitress, who had, they both thought, the mannerisms of a university undergraduate who was working to help her pay her way to a good degree, and the doors that would open for her". "Betook of the beverage" - really? How about "drank"? My mind boggles at what "mannerisms" the waitress displayed that might have told them (and us) all that about her. And as for the dialogue: "I need something else in me other than the slice of toast I had for breakfast in order to go through with this" ... "Likewise...It will psyche us up; help muster the courage to go through with this". Clunk, clunk, clunk. Pity really, because the plot sounded quite interesting and with better editing it might have been a decent read.