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    A Room Full of Killers
    A Room Full of Killers
    A Room Full of Killers
    Audiobook12 hours

    A Room Full of Killers

    Written by Michael Wood

    Narrated by Stephanie Beattie

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    About this audiobook

    ‘DCI Matilda Darke is the perfect heroine’ Elly Griffiths

    The third book in Michael Wood’s darkly compelling crime series featuring DCI Matilda Darke. Perfect for fans of Peter James, Lee Child and Karin Slaughter.

    Eight killers. One house. And the almost perfect murder…

    Starling House is home to some of the nation’s deadliest teenagers, still too young for prison.

    When the latest arrival is found brutally murdered, DCI Matilda Darke and her team investigate, and discover a prison manager falling apart and a sabotaged security system. Neither the staff nor the inmates can be trusted.

    The only person Matilda believes is innocent is facing prison for the rest of his life. With time running out, she must solve the unsolvable to save a young man from his fate, and find a murderer in a house full of killers…

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins Publishers
    Release dateJun 27, 2019
    ISBN9780008367343
    A Room Full of Killers
    Author

    Michael Wood

    Michael Wood is a freelance journalist and proofreader living in Newcastle. As a journalist he covered many crime stories throughout Sheffield, gaining first-hand knowledge of police procedure. He also reviews books for CrimeSquad, a website dedicated to crime fiction.

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    • 2/5
      REMEMBER THIS .....
      redemption is within striking distance, almost -- lets get you on your way to creating stories that have a thread of plausibility:
      1). >there is no such thing as a "prison guard" and that appellation is resented and rejected by the professional men and women comprising this work force<
      2). >everyone would agree that society is dependant on these workers to a degree only found in few occupations -- without them, what? anarchy?<
      3). >this work force (312,595 Certified/July 2023) requires an individual's personality to be mostly comfortable in dangerous, difficult and challenging environments -- each worker must possess a rare blend of complex talents giving them the ability to take on one of society's thankless and unrecognized necessities<
      4). >for an individual worker to succeed requires a high level of understanding and acceptance of the diversity that comprises human nature<
      5). >currently there's a worker shortage of prison staff that's been labeled a "stubborn staffing crises" and it affects every aspect of life sentences, e.g., some go home after work while "doing time" -- others do not<
      6). >henceforth know them as Correctional Officers, "C-O"s -- this chosen, noble and honorable profession labeled correctly in your stories will bring you one step closer to removing the taint of "so preposterous" [from my review of Book One For Reasons Unknown and my review of Book Two Outside Looking In] -- please, at the bare minimum, have your characters referred to by their correct job titles. Copyright 2024 All Rights Reserved WH3012724
      ref: American Correctional Association Founded 1870
      ref: National Institute of Corrections (Federal Govt)
      ref: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (Federal Govt)
      ref: Correctional Leaders Association
      ref: Correctional Peace Officers Foundation CPOF (serving surviving families of COs who lost their life)
    • 1/5
      With nearly 3/4 of the book done, I’m bailing. My frustration with the narrator, the redundancy and the sheer implausibility of how naive some of the officers are… I just can’t keep going with the series.
      The final straw was the lack of editing with the narration - the narrator is a bit lispy, which is ok, but in this book there’s a wetness to it that drove me insane. Editing **just** got the slurp out but they stopped maybe 1/4 second too early and the ghost of the swallow/suck/wet smack is still there. If you’re sensitive to such things, avoid this one!!!!
      As for the book itself, I’m sorry but a dc meeting with the resident psychologist bc he truly doesn’t understand how teenagers can be killers… bc he, as a teen, just wanted to play outside?!?
      Combine things like the cowardly confused dcs with Matilda’s never ending references to James’ icy blue eyes… gah. Oh and she just **KNOWS** in 30seconds of meeting one kid, he’s innocent… no. Just no.
      Character development is severely lacking both with the main cast as well as with the boys in the youth home.. it’s very rare for me to put down a book - *especially* when I’ve listened to over 9hrs… but I honestly have so little investment with anyone that I truly don’t care enough to ride it out.. maybe without a slurpy narrator.. but just can’t do it.
      The hunt continues for a decent series
    • 1/5
      The ending completely ruined the book for me. What was the look did Thomas actually kill his family? Really enjoyed it up to then - disgusted no more Matilda Darke for me !!!
    • 5/5
      Excellent book. Plenty of action, Like the characters and their interaction with each other,
    • 4/5
      This instalment is set in an institution for teenage murderers and is very dark in places. Matilda continues to cope better with her grief and guilt, although her actions towards the end were (in my opinion) a big misjudgment. Well-plotted with a good ending.
    • 4/5
      Scary book; a home for teenage murderers and a flawed police officer. Thoroughly enjoyed this story.