This was my first audiobook experience, I felt like I was in the book. It was a fascinating narrative that I would think about for hours. Thanks to Netgalley for this reading opportunity!

Really enjoyed this audio book it had me hooked from the beginning. Really look forward to more by this author. Highly recommend this audiobook.

I so wanted to like this audiobook: the blurb made it sound just up my street & exactly the type of audiobook I enjoy listening to. Unfortunately, although the plot was interesting I found the story as a whole ‘ok’. I certainly wouldn’t rush to buy the next in the series, unlike many others that fill my audible library,
I found the narrator extremely off-putting and distracting from the story. Although her Bradford accent was acceptable, many of her characters sounded pretty much the same - apart from those whose accents hark from outside West Yorkshire. I have listened to many hundreds of audiobooks and I have to say that this narrator’s abysmal attempt at a Scottish accent has to be the very worst I have ever heard. I really wanted to stop listening because of her narration but the storyline kept me listening.
3 stars for the story but the narration drags this audiobook down to 2 stars. Not one I will be seeking the next instalment of & a narrator I will avoid in future.

This is a great "first in series". Nikki Parekh is policing the area she grew up in, trying to keep the streets clean and safe. Things get difficult very early in the book when her stranger husband's father turns up on her doorstep accusing her of murder.

Her family's life is turned upside down by the endless gang/drug crime on the estate and Nikki needs to juggle the sudden and urgent needs of her family with the demands of tracking down a killer. Something is going to break, soon ....

Loved this Audio book and listened to it in 2 day
.Nikki Parekh is a female detective with a number of personal issues and family dependency issues
Set in Bradford and also read in a Yorkshire accent it was gritty and with plenty of twists which is just what I like in a book
Give it a go you won't be disappointed

Thriller set in BRADFORD

This is the first outing for DS Nikki Parekh, so the author takes her time to introduce this new character, a woman of dual heritage, who has a blended family and certain family members who need keeping in check. She struggles financially and the author does a good job of painting a woman on her uppers, determined to get through life against severe odds. Of course being in the police force is a hard job in itself, let alone the other issues with which Parekh is faced.

The book opens with a woman dying of Aids, back in 1983 and there is already a hint that she was the victim of a serial criminal, whose mission it was to infect others. She is being tended by her daughter and the whiff of decay surrounding the woman is starkly palpable. Grim, in fact.

Parekh is called to excavations in the city, the car park of the old cinema, which have reveal a skeleton which looks to be 10 years old and it becomes all too clear that the skeletal remains are very close to home.

There are several strands which keeps the story hopping, though it could feel a little choppy at times. What I really struggled with was the audiobook narration. The voice is absolutely pertinent to the storyline but sometimes – I assume at the end of lines or at page breaks from which the actor was reading – there would be a fraction of a pause as her eyes moved from one side to the other, which just broke the flow; once spotted (early on) it became just too irritating and marred the story for me. Objectively I could appreciate this novel for the gritty read it was and therefore would suggest picking up the written version, steering away from the audible.

This was an interesting listen - I havent listened/read anything from this author and narrator before and they really (assume) captured the tones of the characters. Yes it is another hard nosed female detective who struggles with work and home life but it worked and I really enjoyed it exploring the new areas and social implications which were new to me.

I was given a free copy by the publishers and netgalley but the review is entirely my own.

I found the narration of this book stilted and it nearly put me off but I preserved because it is a good book. The characters are strong and the storyline disturbing and frustrating. I would like to read another by Liz Mistry but this time in print

I really loved Nikki and found the story gripping, all in all found this was a good police procedural with a great Nikki-twist.
The narrator was fantastic!
Thanks to NetGalley, the editor and the author for the opportunity to access this ARC.

This is the first book in a series where Nikki and Saj are partners out to solve local crime. Like many such series, there is an appropriate conclusion to this episode but you can also sense that there is more to come. Although I enjoyed this fast paced novel, I sense that it would be even better re-written as a screen play and used as a TV series. Perhaps this is the intention.

Having read a lot of these type of books, thought there can’t be others out there, well I was wrong. Liz Mistry starts at a phenomenal pace and never lets her foot off the accelerator. With all good partnership Nikki & Saj make a great match. Thoroughly enjoyed the first book, now reading the next three in the series

I love all the series, and was really glad to get the opportunity to listen to the first book as an audiobook! I loved listening to Nikki, her Yorkshire accent, as well as all her family! I knew about the plot and enjoyed to have it "live", it was very convincing! I loved it!
I received a digital copy of this audiobook from NetGalley and I am leaving voluntarily an honest review.

Blurb sounded good but really it felt all over the place with far too many storylines for there to be a proper focus on the important ones. I love a police procedural storyline but there wasn’t much when it came to that side of the story and a little inaccurate in the aspects that it did touch on. I found the main characters likeable and I do love a strong female character but Nikki came across a little OTT for me nearly to the point of invincible. It moved at a slow pace but did pick up in the last 1/4 but it was a little bit late. Unfortunately it wasn’t the gripping thriller I was hoping for.

2.5/5 🌟🌟/🌟

Thanks to Netgalley and Harper Collins UK, Audio for the opportunity to listen to #LastRequest

I have to admit I really struggled to maintain any concentration on this one. All the makings are there for a really good story, instead of a novel though this read very much to me like a screenplay. I genuinely think if I’d watched this in a tv series I’d have loved it.

The writing is great, the storyline is strong, if a bit repetitive at times, and as I say I struggled to maintain concentration. None the less a really nice piece of work. I enjoyed the narration, and the emphasis and attention on the local accent.

Thank you to NetGalley and Harper Collins U.K. audio for the opportunity to listen to this audio book in return for an honest review.

I liked the sound of this from the blurb. It sounded like a police murder mystery with a different slant. I’ve tried a few times to listen to it, but I’ve given up and find I’m unable to listen to it.

There are two problems. The writing feels rather cliched; the characters and conversations are one dimensional and I’m not buying in to any of the characters or their interaction. But the worst issue is the narration. It’s unreal with emphasis in the wrong place. it’s stilted and I became transfixed by how bad it is rather than taking in the story. Reading would be better than listening, but I’m not interested enough to follow up with a written version. Sorry, but for me this really doesn’t tick any box.

My thanks to the publisher for a review copy via Netgalley.