What is interesting for me in this novel was the amount of character development we have in the detective.

He reads well, and his calm just the facts ma'am tone really set a lovely tone for the novel. He has some, but I wouldn't say voices was his forte. His reading is straight forward with very few voices. Szarabajka has a gruff voice that added to film noir feel of this novel. The reader for this Audiobook was Keith Szarabajka. It's a solid mystery with good character development. Or I may just skip it all together.įadeout by Joseph Hansen receives three stars from me. I may try to read this book on my kindle instead and try to come back to the audible version after I figure out what this book is all about. I've never been so distracted by an audible book before. I can't tell who is married to who, who's kids belong to who, who's in love with who,I haven't even sussed out the main character is contentedly gay. I reread the synopsis and the only thing that I can make out from the story is that a man may have faked his death by driving his car off a bridge. The phrasing is very clipped, in short spoken bursts. And I love being read to and have been an audible subscriber since 1999. Someone else mentioned that there are too many characters to keep track of, I can't even say that, I can't tell who is who. I listened to the first hour or so and have no idea who the characters are or what the story is about. He's hypnotizing to the point I'm not actually listening.

I just don't believe that this book is a good fit for this narrator. I found the three books and their plots frustrating to follow by only listening. That said, this series might be very entertaining to someone reading from the page, with the chance to easily flip back to check on locations and characters. If there were clues along the way, I missed most of them.

There were too many characters for me to keep track of and the abrupt transitions between scenes sometimes made me ask ‘Where are we now?’ The author included plenty of potential murderers, but by the time each story ended I cared more about getting finished and ending my confusion than guessing which character was guilty.

Joseph Hansen created a likable, believable character in Dave Brandstetter (although in my opinion he smoked too much), but after listening to the first three books in this series, I honestly can’t recommend them as audiobooks. I’ve been an Audible reader - and fan - since almost its beginning and while I’ve read many, many reviews here, I’ve never posted one.

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