The Cornish Detective

Box Set

By: Paul Whybrow

Narrated by: Paul Whybrow

Neil Kettle is a detective chief inspector with Devon and Cornwall Police Force, in charge of the major crime investigation team. A widower, he comes through depression by using his work as support.

A countryman, the son of a farmer, Neil is in touch with the landscape as he hunts down serial killers, murderers, drugs and weapons smugglers, human traffickers, rustlers, and even the Beast of Bodmin Moor. A country copper with a strange mind, a weary heart, and quick fists. What could possibly go wrong?

©2014 Paul Whybrow (P)2021 Paul Whybrow

Enjoyed every word.

I liked all five.
Good stories and kept my interest. Sorry to see these end. 👍

Decent Collections

This collection was worth a credit and my time. Comparable to a number of others in this genre. The stories are well constructed and intriguing, prose and dialogue a little stilted sometimes. The characters, although a little predictable, grow with the stories. The narration could have done with a professional voice actor and in part 5 someone forgot to edit out the out-takes - that was interesting in its own way.

Whew! Exhausting

I should have read the other reviews a little more carefully.
After listening, then restarting a couple times, I decided to see just who this narrator was. According to Paul Whybrow ( the author, narrator) his agent passed away while he was in America, It was then he decided to take over promoting his work as he could save a bit of money in doing so. I guess taking over promotion including narrating the audio books himself. He states in his blog, he is not actually from Cornwall, hence the fake Cornish accent.
The plots are rather interesting, it's just to awfully bad he chose to do the narration. The problem is the the author while a decent writer is an awful narrator. He has only one voice and that one voice is desperate, depressed, morose. You will take Cornwall off your bucket list after listening to these books, as read by the author; if everyone in Cornwall sounds A.A. Milne's Eeyore. You cannot get away from it at all.
Paul Whybrow states in his blog writing is his favorite "job", not his art or passion, I do not think he cares about the listener at all.
It's really sad, as the stories themselves are fairly decent.