Needles by William Deverell Narrated by Steve Scherf, Maggie
Scherf
I received this from the Narrator/Producer Steve Scherf for
a fair and honest review.
Without looking at the original publication date of this
book I could tell it was from the 70’s it definitely has a 70’s Noir feel to
it. This is a good courtroom drama (and much more) with a very flawed, heroin
addicted lawyer as our main character Foster Cobb. There is a lot going on in
this book and it all centers around Cobb who has been trying to put away Dr. Au
who is a scary twisted man and is going to make sure he doesn’t go to prison no
matter who he has to intimidate, kill or make disappear, including Cobb.
As I said this book has a 70’s vibe going on, and in some
ways reminded me of Ed McBain’s writing, very dark and gritty and life ain’t
easy especially when your strung out on heroin and fighting for your life as
the person you are prosecuting is trying to kill you and you have more troubles
than just those. Even though this describes Cobb you still can’t help but root
for him even if he is strung out and not always a good guy you still want him
to survive.
I would probably read more by this author as the writing is
good. If you like gritty crime/lawyer books I’d give this one a try.
This is a performance audiobook all female characters done
by a female and all male by a male, also there is a lot of music and a lot of
background noises ie: gunshots, crowd noises and such. When I see more than one
narrator I always assume that it will be a certain character per narrator but
this one is done differently with all female by Maggie Scherf and all male by
Steve Scherf which is different so is taking me a little to get used to. Also
there is a lot of music that could really just not be there, I know this is an
annoyance for a lot of people. Also traffic sounds were very unnecessary. However Steve Scherf has an impressive arsenal
of different voices and dialects so not sure why the female narrator was added
he is great at so many different voices that I am so curious if he isn’t
comfortable doing female voices? Is he bad at them? Which, I honestly can’t
imagine because all his different voices are pretty darn impressive. I am also
not sure what I think of Maggie’s voice I don’t know if it’s her voice I don’t
like or the format of the audiobook, when the female voice pops in it kind of
takes me out of the story and am really confused as to why it was added in the
first place.
3 Stars-book
4 stars-Steve Scherf’s narration
So 3 1/2 Overall
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