Misleading

Bought as a Lynley mystery but I got about three chapters in and I think he’d appeared once. Maybe everything comes together eventually but it’s not gripping enough at the beginning for me to persevere till it does. Shame. I was looking forward to this one.

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Review of Something to Hide

I was eagerly awaiting the next book in the remarkable Lynley series, but was extremely disappointed with it. Although I stuck with it to the end, the story was slow moving and the whole needed a really, really good edit. A plethora of side issues encompassing too much detail detracted from the story. In some respects it was a brave attempt at highlighting an issue which often gets swept under the carpet of political correctness. But I’m not sure that the issue was dealt with properly. The actual production was uneven - some technical difficulties- and it may have been better to have had two narrators - one to do the Nigerian voices - which were excellently performed- and another to perform the plummy male voices of Lynley, Simon etc. which were poorly performed.

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Great story but didn’t like the narrator

Another great story from Elizabeth George but I really didn’t like the narrator. Her characters voices weren’t always great - women often sounded like a whining child, Lynley’s voice was all wrong and some of the African voices were also off. In addition, there were some “phone conversations” where one side was “missing” - just patches of silence. This happened in a particularly important part in Chapter 22.

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Disappointed with latest Inspector Linley book

As others have commented there is missing audio - especially in the last chapter - which makes the last chapter hard to comprehend, especially after 16+ hours of listening. Very disappointed in this long and disjointed story. I’ve read every Lynley and Havers book but found this one extremely disappointing. I cannot recommend it.

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Too long narration terrible

Story was good but it was way too long and the voice was awful most of the time I thought all of them were in Nigeria couldn’t tell who was who and Inspector Lyndley was so off it was horrendous

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Missing dialogue ,especially in the last chapter

Frustrating- I have no idea of the final conclusion due to important dialog missing

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Good book but sound issues

Enjoyed the story and the presenter. The frustration was that when someone spoke on an intercom or phone that side of the story was left blank so there were key sections missed especially in the last hour of the story.

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narrator issues

story was good but severely disappointed in that it appeared that voices in conversations have been omitted, especially towards the end if book. leaving silences when people should be speaking

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Badly recorded

Entire parts of dialogue missing in several places. Volume levels unevenly recorded so parts are too quiet while alternating with ear blistering loudness. Not read very well either. Story however captivating as always by this author.

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Strange accents

As usual Elizabeth George writes a cracking story and I enjoyed her usual twists and characters. But the narration with the faux accents was appalling

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