Ghost in the Machine

DC Scott Cullen Crime Series, Book 1

By: Ed James

Narrated by: Dave Gillies

Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins

Publisher's summary

Caroline Adamson's future is looking up...until her mutilated body is found. Her ex-husband is the main suspect. But when one murder becomes three, Edinburgh faces up to the fact that it might have a serial killer in its midst.

Could the answer lie with Schoolbook, the latest social media craze to hit the city? DCI Cullen is determined to prove himself and equally determined to find justice.

©2017 Ed James (P)2017 W. F. Howes Ltd

Bain Book

The character Bain is performed perfectly. funny stuff. kind of a crude bunch of characters and juvenile sex references.

Technology has overtaken the plot

This would have been a very interesting plot 7-8 years ago when detectives were not expected to be familiar with the concept of IP addresses and when the laptop of a woman murdered at home was not automatically taken for forensics examination. The bread crumbs of technology clues would have been long solved by today’s 12-year-olds.

Great read...Don’t miss this one!

Great characters and a thrilling ride! Ed James is a terrific storyteller and edge of your seat ending. For those who love crime thrillers don’t miss out.

Baine

hope the character Baine is not in the following books. I found it difficult listening to the way he treated people who worked under him. I know that's just the story. but not for me.

A good beginning

Think I’ll stick around for more. The DCI being a “ blow hot, blow cold” mental case was a trial but I liked it enough overall to get the next one. I wasn’t sure about the narrator at first and that can be a dealbreaker. But the low voice for Cullen grew on me as things progressed. And his women sounded womanly. A definite plus. Oh and the mystery was interesting. 😊

Rate

Book is a decent read and it listen. Can't wait for the next book to come out

Narration

My only complaint is that the narrator tends to drop his voice during the narration portions making it hard to hear and necessitating volume changing. Conversation potions are fine.

I hope the rest become audiobooks soon

This was good. I didn't realize right away that this was an early Ed James series of books. This first one was just released on Audible. I hope the rest of them are available as audiobooks soon.

While not as interesting or as well written as the Fenchurch books, this was good. I had a bit of a problem keeping the characters straight. I swear at one point the DI was called MacBain which really threw me. There were a lot of potential false leads and that added to the drama of the story.

Just ok.

The narrator, or how the narration was recorded, sometimes talked in a very low tone, only to suddenly talk very loudly throughout the entire book. The beginning story line promised to be interesting, but the interactions between characters were either somewhat immature, or loud and profane/insulting. I enjoyed another series more by this author. Sorry, can't remember the name of it right now, but will have to start this review over again if I leave this page.

Good story but the narration not so much

The story was good and I thought I had another series by this author to get into. It was all I could do to finish it as the narrator was, in my opinion very difficult to listen to. It wasn’t as noticeable when the characters were actually speaking, but you can hear every breath he takes and also there’s a odd unnatural cadence to his voice when he is just speaking, not as a character, but merely narrating the text. It has a funny breath quality like it’s supposed to be suspenseful when the content isn’t suspenseful at that moment at all. Difficult to describe, but I barely made it through it and won’t be listening to anymore books by this narrator.