Starvation Lake

A DCI Sean Bracken Crime Thriller, Book 1

By: John Carson

Narrated by: Angus King

A brand-new series from the creator of the DCI Harry McNeil and DI Frank Miller novels. Here comes DCI Sean Bracken.

A killer on the loose.

A killer behind bars.

And a detective caught between them...

Ailsa Connolly was a brilliant psychologist and a respected criminologist.

She was also a serial killer.

Six years ago, DCI Sean Bracken caught her just before he was about to become her seventh victim. Every year on the anniversary of her incarceration, she taunts him with a phone call, giving him one message: "When I get out, I'll kill you."

Now, Bracken has transferred back to Edinburgh from Fife and is thrown into the deep end on his first day back on duty.

There's a killer who is emulating Ailsa, threatening to surpass her body count.

Bracken knows he needs her on board to help him track the killer down, but she's reluctant to get involved.

Then the case takes an unexpected twist, and she agrees to help. But this new killer is taking them down a dark, twisted path, where nobody sees the outcome.

Until it's too late.

©2020 John Carson (P)2022 John Carson

Seemed very familiar

The story had good characters and all, but nothing new and some well-worn plot themes. Yawn.

Fair knockoff

Okay story, although character development is shallow. Plot moves along fine, and then just falls off at the end like the author had to get the book to the publisher the next morning and tried to wrap it up in a few pages. My biggest issue with the book is the STRIKING character and plot similarities to Kirk’s DCI Logan series. Walking a thin line and barely stayed on this side of plagiarism IMO.
But at least there was solid narration by Angus King.

Revenge brings out all the bad things in life

A story full of thrills and suspense. The narrator made the whole story come alive. Looking forward to the next break in the series

Can't finish

Angus King is my favorite narrator, but even he can't save the inane dialogue. Maybe it is an interesting story, but any time there are more than a couple lines exchanged between the characters, I was cringing at how boring and unrealistic it was.

just 1

The author struggled mightly, plot is interesting but by the last chapter so many characters
were added to wind up this murder mystery I am
going to listen to the last part of the book to figure out what happened.