Murder on Oxford Lane

De: Tony Bassett

Narrado por: Colin Mace

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

Engrossing story

The team solving the murder is one I look forward to getting to know better, and the narrator made them come alive. Starting the second book now.

Very impressive characters

So glad I found this book! Really enjoyed the plot and all of the various characters and their development. The narration was perfect.!

Enjoyed it!

Very well written, interesting plot with twists and turns, interesting and likable characters, and I also really enjoyed the narrator! Thoroughly enjoyed his style of narration, with his pleasant voice.

Excellent Characters and Plot

Good police procedural set in the heart of England. Sympathetic back stories for heroine and her boss, newbie with a stalker and experienced senior detective family man. Evokes sweet and tough aspects of semi-rural British contemporary life in an endearing and enduring country town near Birmingham. I confess I have a weakness for British/Indian young detectives. The who done it was classic. Very well done voice-acting as well.

Solid police procedural

The chief protagonists were given enough backstory in this start to a series to make them interesting, but not so much as to overwhelm the main plot.

I’ll be interested to see how this series progresses.

Although the narration was generally good, Roscoe sounded very much like he just flew in from Australia at many points.

Two less satisfactory points are (stop here as they are potential plot spoilers):
1. Sunita‘s nearly angelic sympathy for a very bad actor.
2. The other was the failure to charge an assailant who, in fact, contributed to a murder.

Pleasant narrator but mediocre story

Murderer just revealed at the very end - no way for readers to determine who it was by following clues throughout-?- as there were no clues !! Will not listen to other books by this author!

Very enjoyable!

An easy detective, crime fiction listen/read.
The pace was good not to slow and giving enough information.
The plot and the characters were great, and I didn't know who done it till the end.
Good narration.

Good intro to this mystery writer

First listen to this author’s work. Interesting plot, and included characters about whom I want to learn more. Thus I look forward to more in the series. Good narration, with the exception that he would occasionally speed up suddenly. This happened several times during the book, causing me to have to back up and re-listen. But very pleasant voice. Characters did not get mixed up with one another. Recommend, and will look for more by this author.