Still Waters
Sandhamn Murders, Book 1
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Angela Dawe
About this listen
On a hot July morning on Sweden's idyllic vacation island of Sandhamn, a man takes his dog for a walk and makes a gruesome discovery: a body, tangled in fishing net, has washed ashore.
Police detective Thomas Andreasson is the first to arrive on the scene. Before long, he has identified the deceased as Krister Berggren, a bachelor from the mainland who has been missing for months. All signs point to an accident - until another brutalized corpse is found at the local bed-and-breakfast. But this time it is Berggren's cousin, whom Thomas interviewed in Stockholm just days before.
As the island's residents reel from the news, Thomas turns to his childhood friend, local lawyer Nora Linde. Together, they attempt to unravel the riddles left behind by these two mysterious outsiders - while trying to make sense of the difficult twists their own lives have taken since the shared summer days of their youth.
©2008 Viveca Sten. Translation copyright © 2015 Marlaine Delargy. (P)2015 Brilliance Audio, all rights reservedListeners also enjoyed...
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- Anonymous User
- 24-12-22
Good story ruined by the narration.
The narration would have been fine for an American novel, but it really grated on a European novel. I kept losing all sense of place with the American pronunciation of certain words and this ruined the book for me. I will sti k to reading this series rather than listening if the same narrator is used
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- twiggs
- 04-11-15
"Thomas said"
Good but some annoyances such as repetition of the word archipelago and what sounded like cut and pasted "Thomas said" so many times.
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- Winston Churchill
- 26-05-22
Good story pot narrator
Story was believable and portrayed vacation life in Sweden well. Sequence of novels develop characters well
Narrator poor with a harsh voice
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- Snowy
- 10-12-18
Did not enjoy the narration.
I am afraid that the very obvious American accent and rather hard tone of the narrator meant that the Scandinavian flavour of the story was lost.
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- Colette
- 17-01-23
Awful narrator
I had to give up, the strident American accent of the narrator destroyed the listener experience for me.
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- Mair
- 29-02-24
Interesting setting and characters
I plot was a good one, with great, believable characters. The setting was described with vividness and came to life under the writers deft hand.
Two things jarred a bit. The nasal American narrator, who mispronounced words and galloped along so fast I had to slow it down to 80%, and the authors over explanation. Trust your reader. You don’t have to cross every t and dot every I.
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- Jen
- 17-10-15
A good listen.
I enjoyed listening to this book. The setting on the island of Sandhamn is beautifully described and sounds tranquil, but it's not long before a body is washed up on the shore and in step the police detectives from Stockholm.
I liked getting to know the characters and their back stories. Hopefully more to follow.
The story is a little predictable but flows well and keeps you interested - it's definitely worth a listen. It would be good to hear more from this author to see how the characters and their relationships develop.
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- Joe Doyle
- 02-07-19
Narration ruins the Audible version, Read the Kindle version
Abandoned after 30 minutes. I couldn’t cope with the narration. One of the other reviewers has put it really well when he said that the narrator‘s voice was too harsh, too American and all of the Swedish subtlety has been lost.
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- boyo
- 24-10-18
Ending no surprise
I had worked out “who dunnit” very early in story. No twist at end disappointing
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- M Wilson
- 30-08-22
The narration was irritating
I was unable to get past chapter two as the narrators voice was irritating. Very nasal and nerve jangling to my ears.
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