Author: Sam Bungey, Jennifer Forde
Genre: True Crime, Mystery
Narrators: Sam Bungey, Jennifer Forde
Format: Audible Original
Source: Audible/Self
Length: 8 Hours 1 min/410 pages
Purchase: Audible
Audio Description:
This much we do know: Sophie Toscan du Plantier was murdered days before Christmas in 1996, her broken body discovered at the edge of her property near the town of Schull in West Cork, Ireland. The rest remains a mystery.
Gripping, yet ever elusive, join the real-life hunt for answers in the year’s first not-to-be-missed, true-crime series. Investigative journalist, Sam Bungey, and documentarian, Jennifer Forde, guide listeners through the brutal, unsolved murder and the tangled web of its investigation, while introducing an intricate cast of characters, a provocative prime suspect, and a recovering community whose story begs to be heard.
My Opinion:
This starts out in Ireland and a murder that takes place in West Cork, Ireland. We are taken to what happened in that small community and then to the 20th anniversary of it. They are still trying to find the answer to this murder. They go through different peoples perspectives on what happened on that fateful day and if the main suspect was the murderer. The suspect that they have is trying to prove he is innocent.
This is filled with the mystery of what happened to Sophie and the people of this small town and it's secrets. The three castle head is a spooky place and the talk of the white lady that Sophie had seen before her death. Or maybe it's just talk or folklore. This is a well done audiobook that grabs your attention and you find yourself trying to figure out what happened to her with the clues you are given.
It's a journey that I am glad I picked up and was able to listen to. I loved the accents and it drew me to Ireland and it's beauty and it's legends and what the truth really is. They can't even get locals to take them to the house that she lived in. It was a crime that no one really wanted to be a part of.
I enjoyed the narrators but did not like that between each chapter they re-read the credits. I felt this should have waited till the end. It reads like a detective show and has chapters to it(or episodes). I would have liked it to have been read more like a book and have more of a even flow. Instead of stopping, doing credits, and then going back to the story. It stops your flow of thinking about the crime itself.
This is full of suspicion, police investigations and lies. There is only two people who know the truth. The killer and the victim and one of them isn't able to talk. So, who knows, we can only speculate as to who might have done this terrible crime.
I give this 4 of 5 stars as a audiobook about a true crime and it's narration.
Disclaimer: I purchased this on my own. All information I got was from Audible/Goodreads. Please find any information on this audiobook there. This audiobook is free from Audible till May 2018.
Wow this one sounds so interesting here...I like that with a mystery like this you get to see the story in various points of view!!
ReplyDeleteI saw this cover flash across my Audible main page, but got distracted and didn't check it out further. It sounds really engaging and intense, Mary. Great review.
ReplyDeleteHmm, yeah you think they would have edited out the credits in-between. I am excited to listen and do has this in queue.
ReplyDeleteOoooh, I love any book that happens in Ireland! Going to Ireland is on my bucket list. Even though I don't listen to audios, I would love to read this book.
ReplyDeleteLooks like there will be blood shed in the story
ReplyDeletethis sounds like a good book but would not be something I would read. Not a fan of cold case murders
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