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Candles and Roses

A Serial Killer Thriller

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Candles and Roses

By: Alex Walters
Narrated by: David McCann
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DI Alec McKay is a man haunted by the loss of his daughter. As he obsesses over a missing person case that is going nowhere, McKay's investigation is interrupted when bodies start appearing on the Scottish Black Isle. Soon McKay and his team start to identify a disturbing pattern behind the killings.

Why are candles and roses placed around the bodies?

What is this twisted murderer trying to achieve?

While the police follow their own leads, a young woman who discovered the first victim begins an investigation of her own.

As the case unfolds McKay will be forced to face his own demons.

To catch the killer McKay must discover the true motive and untangle the web of truth and lies.

Candles and Roses is the first book in the explosive new DI McKay Series.

©2016 Alex Walters (P)2017 Bloodhound Books
Crime Thrillers Fiction Police Procedural Thriller Mystery

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Not easy to listen to.

The reader made lots of mistakes! He had a pleasant voice but slurred a lot.

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I made it to the end because I paid for this audio book, but can't say I enjoyed it. The narrator and lack of editing ruined it for me. I'm not really a fan of stories where there is a lack of suspects until the end, and then I could guess it straight away

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Awful narration

After only two minutes I knew I couldn’t Liston .. audible wouldn’t let me return grrrrrr

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Good story

I enjoyed the story but the narrating wasn’t good. The narrator kept rereading lines and I lost track of who the characters were that were speaking because he used the same voice for all of them.

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Poorly edited narration

A reasonable story but due to many narration errors it was a frustrating listen.

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editing required

As everyone said. It is hard to listen to and not enough editing done. Come on Audible, read your reviews!

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Fortunately I accidentally started with book 2 of the series. Because the narration of this book would not make me finish the series!!

Worst narration i have heard to date! And i had to pay 😩

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Not a bad story but narration shocking.
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Great story but narrator lets it down

Glad they changed narrator after this first book. Felt narrator was slow and repeated himself many times, frustratingly other books refer to this case so went back to hear this one. Annoyed this is the only one that charged a credit given how difficult the listen was.

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The terrible and amateur narration ruined the entire story for me.

The terrible and amateur narration ruined the entire story for me. It started off well but a third of the way through the narrator kept making frequent mistakes and repeating the lines. Ruined it!!

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