Attack and Decay

Vinyl Detective, Book 6

By: Andrew Cartmel

Narrated by: Finlay Robertson

The Vinyl Detective plunges into the world of death metal in his sixth adventure. Expect laughs, LPs, cats and the return of fan favourites, Nevada, Tinkler, Stinky Stanmer and more.

The Vinyl Detective goes Scandi noir in his sixth adventure. Disfigured corpse. Check. Grotesque snowman. Check. Headless animals. Check. But in fact the killer is taking their cue not from Scandi noir fiction but another popular Scandinavian export—death metal.

©2022 Andrew Cartmel (P)2022 W F Howes

Tinkler should have stayed in Sweden

I have generally liked all of the Vinyl detective series. But this most recent book was extraordinarily disappointing. Tinkler’s behavior and language was so off-putting I found it quite difficult to believe Nevada would put up with him, let alone Agatha. It’s not only distracting but hard to suspend one’s belief that he has any redeeming qualities whatsoever. I hope his character improves or at least grows more interesting as the series continues.

brilliant

loved it, great story! can we get a Rivers of London crossover or cameo please?

Awful narrator

The narration was just so off putting. His pronunciation of “motherfucker” is just so exaggerated and unnatural that it like a sharp elbow pointing out a running gag. The plot wasn’t as good as previous novels in this series.