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  • Murder on Oxford Lane

  • By: Tony Bassett
  • Narrated by: Colin Mace
  • Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (148 ratings)

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Murder on Oxford Lane

By: Tony Bassett
Narrated by: Colin Mace
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Summary

The peace of a Midlands village is upset when local businessman Harry Bowers doesn’t return from choir practice.

More concerned than the man’s own wife, it would seem, investigating officer Detective Sergeant Sunita Roy becomes convinced he has been done away with.

But there is no trace of the man, just a litany of evidence of an ailing marriage and a nose-diving business venture.

In charge of her first serious case, DS Roy will struggle to win the respect of her colleagues—in particular her Brummie boss, DCI Gavin Roscoe. All that whilst fighting off the intentions of an increasingly desperate suitor.

Who had it in for the budding chorister? And is Roy tough enough to break down the defences and prejudices of Middle England?

©2022 Tony Bassett (P)2022 W F Howes
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Excellent

Good detective story with plenty of twists, more from this author please, the narration very clear.

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Okay

I listened to this purely because of the narrator and I'm left slightly disappointed. General story quite good but general competency of the police was questionable, not really having any clue of the culprit till right at the very end. The side story of the stalker didn't really seem convincing. Average but would try another.

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Murder on Oxford Lane Book One

I enjoyed getting to know the characters and watching them develop. The storyline was engrossing and I look forward to reading book two

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Well read and a gripping believable story line.

Very well written and a good story. Listened to it all day. Certainly would recommend this title.

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Reasonable story, strange narration

I enjoyed this book to an extent but it was very average. I found the narration odd- all of the female voices sounded weak and pathetic, especially Sunita and I think if I’d read the book, I’d have imagined much stronger female voices. The Brummie accents were like cariacatures, horrible. The timing of the narration was off too and some emphasis seemed to be on the wrong part of the sentence. The writing wasn’t great, lots of descriptions of clothes, food and furniture! Unnecessary and dull. The dialogue, for current times, was strangely old fashioned and on that note, the names of youngish characters were not contemporary- Margaret, Dorothy, Derek!! More suited to the 1950’s! I did like the diversity in terms of gender, and ethnicity of characters but some overt sexism crept in ‘you seem so young for a sergeant, my dear’ says the older male character to Sunita - would he have said that to a male sergeant? All in all, it was okay but not great.

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Good plot - spoilt by poor writing and narration

The plot is good but the story is badly written. There are errors in the timeline and the procedures are incorrect.
The narration is awful. The narrator seems to pause at the end of line rather than taking note of the punctuation.

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Good story well narrated

Nice flowing book, plenty of pace and good vocalisation of characters. Would recommend to Joy Ellis fans. Will be buying second in series

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Disappointing

Unnecessarily story in the story and occasional repeats in descriptions… overall ok but irritating. Narration helps to keep going.

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Detective story with twists

A complex detective story with enough convoluted twists and turns to satisfy most fans of the genre. As always, the narrator was excellent and brought another level to the tale. This is the first book I’ve listened to by Tony Bassett and it won’t be the last.

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Easy listening

It was a good story and easy to listen to Narrated well and I never lost my place Quite gripping and not full of blood and guts

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