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    Audiobook8 hours

    Where Death Delights

    Written by Bernard Knight

    Narrated by Jonathan Keeble

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    About this audiobook

    Forensic pathologist Richard Pryor uses his 'golden handshake' to set up in private practice with scientist Angela Bray. A friendly coroner gives them a start, and when two women both claim that human remains found near a reservoir are their relatives, the dilemma is given to them to investigate. Set in 1950's post-war Britain, this thrilling new series is set during the emergence of forensic science.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. F. Howes Ltd
    Release dateOct 1, 2010
    ISBN9781407464558
    Author

    Bernard Knight

    Bernard Knight is a retired Home Office pathologist renowned for his work on such high-profile cases as the Fred and Rosemary West murders. Bernard is the author of the ‘Crowner John’ series, as well as the Dr Richard Pryor forensic mystery series.

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    • 4/5
      I enjoyed this book as it was character driven not especially blood thirsty and there were more reasons for the characters to be involved in crime compared with some cosies.
    • 2/5
      I was disappointed in this work. The premise of the story is very intriguing but the author never seems to be able to settle on a plan. There is where to many descriptive lists of the area and the people the main character interacts with to the point you don't have any idea of who these people are or where they are. Just to much minutiae to hold the reader's interest. There was potential here but not enough to bring me back to the series. A disappointment.
    • 4/5
      I loved the characters and the writing in this book. It took me a while to really get into the story because Knight took quite a bit of time to establish the characters and the setting so it was a while for the mystery to really take hold. That's okay because this was a pretty low-key mystery.

      Richard Pryor is a forensic pathologist, in 1955 in Wales. He has just set up his own business with partner Angela Bray. Many of the cases they get a pretty routine, blood tests (Angela), unattended death autopsies (Richard) and others like that. There are really two main mysteries going on here, one is trying to identify the body of a man killed several years ago using modern (!) forensic techniques and the other trying to determine if a young woman drowned by accident or if her cheating husband killed her.

      This was a fun "first in a series" and I'll be looking for more from this author.
    • 3/5
      Set in the 1950s Richard Pryor and his partner Angela Bray open a pathology lab taking on all the jobs they can, the novel in particular covers two cases - the death of a woman, and the mystery of a set of bones.

      Unlike modern novels which use all the whizz-bang gadgets modern technology has to offer being set back in the day the characters here are reliant on more basic methods of deduction and analysis which make the story that much more interesting.
    • 2/5
      It's 1955, and forensic pathologist Richard Pryor has recently returned to his native Wales from Singapore. Angela Bray has decided to leave her job at the Metropolitan Police lab in London after a broken engagement. After meeting at a conference, Richard and Angela decided to go into business for themselves. They've just set up shop in a house Richard inherited from an aunt. An old friend of Richard's serves as a coroner in the area and he starts throwing business their way. Their cases include a contested identity claim that will involve an exhumation and the drowning death of an expert swimmer.This is one of those books that just doesn't live up to its promise. The plot gets lost in the details. The author was himself a pathologist who got his start in the same era. This seems to be more of a liability than an asset, since he includes a lot of irrelevant details. Instead of focusing on just one case, the author includes calls for Richard's examinations of several corpses that end up being open and shut cases. It was a little like reading about James Herriot in All Creatures Great and Small, except the “patients” were human remains rather than living animals. What we're told of Richard and Angela's personal lives seems more adolescent than adult. They're both living in the house where they set up shop. The young lab technician, the widowed housekeeper, and Angela all seem to be interested in Richard to some degree and, consequently, all jealous of each other to some degree. I'll leave them to sort things out on their own. I'm not interested enough in this series to continue with it.