mystery
Jack, a police detective in a small British town is awakened
by news that they’ve found a murdered woman in the woods. Anna, a BBC
newswoman, learns that a murder has been committed in her hometown. Jack and
Anna haven’t seen each other in quite some time but they both appear at the
crime scene and want to find out who committed the crime. Yet neither of them
seem entirely innocent.
His & Hers by Alice Feeney is a fun mystery full of misdirection, unreliable
narrators, and well-paced spoon-feeding of clarifying information throughout. I
really wanted to find out the identity of the murderer and was glued to the
audiobook. This, despite the audiobook beginning with a distorted voice with
hideous sound quality. It sounded like the narrator had the microphone down their
throat. I almost bailed on the audiobook right off the bat not realizing it was
supposed to sound distorted! But that section was short and the narration that followed that section was fine, so I persisted. I came to learn that the hideous voice
represented the murderer’s point of view and it was not used very often,
thankfully.
In the end, while the mystery was fun and the reveal of the
murderer was satisfying, there
were a few plot points that really irked me. I can’t say much without giving
things away but, suffice it to say that a) the pivotal event in the story was
disturbing and b) the sad reason for the central break-up
seemed too easily explained and unexplored.
The narrators, Richard Armitage and Stephanie Racine, did a
great job with voice acting. This novel did not require a large vocal
repertoire by either of them and nothing stood out in this regard by either
one. Due to their limited repertoires, I give them an A- as an ensemble.
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