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Dead Girls Dancing

By: Graham Masterton
Narrated by: Deirdre O'Connell
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Publisher's Summary

In the middle of Cork, in the middle of the day, a fire crackles in a local dance studio. Thirteen women, all promising stars of Irish folk, die in the blaze, their young lives cut short by a tragic accident. But where others see tragedy, DCI Katie Maguire sees murder.

This is not the first fire to sweep through Cork. And in one previous case, the victims were dead before the fire was started. As Katie Maguire investigates the strange, obsessive world of competitive Irish folk dancing, she must face her most chilling killer yet.

©2017 Graham Masterton (P)2017 W. F. Howes Ltd

Critic Reviews

"A tough and gritty thriller with an attractively feisty principle character." ( Irish Independent)
"One of the most original and frightening storytellers of our time." (Peter James Davidson)

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Sexually explicit and violent

It appears that with each book the story gets more and more violent and sexually explicit - which I suppose might sell but does not provide quality to the writing. Great shame.

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Good story, dreadful narrator

The narration for this one was dreadful, apart from the singing. The story was good though.

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Honestly took a while to get into it after the 1st

This book took quite a while to get into after the 1st chapter.
I really wasn't a fan of the narrator, she obviously hadn't listened to the other books, her pronunciation of some of the characters names was so off it really made listening to the book quite difficult. Not sure I am up for another book in this series.

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Not the best in the series

I found this story so hard to get into due to the sing songy narrator. She didn’t even seem able to consistently keep the same accents for characters, at one point the lead character took on a Welsh lilt then reverted back to Irish.
Story was okay but not as riveting as other instalments. Don’t want to ruin the ending other than to say “WTF?!”

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Great story

Loved another instalment of DSI McGuire but not a big fan of the narrator. Her reading of the dialogues is fantastic but her reading of the narrative is often too soft and musing which gets quite annoying after a while.

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Graphic descriptions

I enjoyed listening to the book but I feel for some people the would find some of the descriptions to detailed especially in the sex descriptions.

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Another terrible narrator!

if this was book 1 I would never have listened to the series. Hard work

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suspense

loved it. didn't want to switch it off and always keen to open up again.

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worst narrator<br />

I love Graham Masterton's writing, and this series but I wish you would go back to the original narrators. this narrator was particularly pedestrian.

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disappointed

the sexual decriptions were not needed the story did not need this . they are only filling and takes away from the story

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