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The Word is Murder
by Anthony Horowitz
Delightful reimagining of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson for a modern-day murder mystery.
The bit here that Horowitz employs (my experience is that he likes a little twisty trick in his writings) is making this metafiction, where Horowitz is the Watson character. So where Watson in the Sherlock canon writes the novelizations of their cases, here Horowitz is writing himself writing a detective case with his own creation of Hawthorne, the Sherlockian former police detective.
This was fun and humorous and just plain ol' entertaining. (It was also such a relief after trying to push through a book that I ended up DNF-ing just before turning to this as a remedy book.)
Audiobook, as narrated by [a:Rory Kinnear|4503082|Rory Kinnear|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png]: Kinnear aligned with my surprise new standard for audiobook performances: he was so great with his accents/voices, that at times I "forgot" that Hawthorne and Horowitz were voiced by the same person. I think another aspect about this is a level of commitment to the journey of narrating an audiobook. Going all in and beyond simply reading it, ensuring the delivery is as much a performance as a voice-acting job for an animated movie, and do so by dropping the ego. I think that in and of itself is why there is such a positive response to this new wave of actors doing these performances; this is why there is a such an easy auditory delineation from the "old style" of audiobook narration to this newer and more engaging method of an actual performance.
The bit here that Horowitz employs (my experience is that he likes a little twisty trick in his writings) is making this metafiction, where Horowitz is the Watson character. So where Watson in the Sherlock canon writes the novelizations of their cases, here Horowitz is writing himself writing a detective case with his own creation of Hawthorne, the Sherlockian former police detective.
This was fun and humorous and just plain ol' entertaining. (It was also such a relief after trying to push through a book that I ended up DNF-ing just before turning to this as a remedy book.)
Audiobook, as narrated by [a:Rory Kinnear|4503082|Rory Kinnear|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png]: Kinnear aligned with my surprise new standard for audiobook performances: he was so great with his accents/voices, that at times I "forgot" that Hawthorne and Horowitz were voiced by the same person. I think another aspect about this is a level of commitment to the journey of narrating an audiobook. Going all in and beyond simply reading it, ensuring the delivery is as much a performance as a voice-acting job for an animated movie, and do so by dropping the ego. I think that in and of itself is why there is such a positive response to this new wave of actors doing these performances; this is why there is a such an easy auditory delineation from the "old style" of audiobook narration to this newer and more engaging method of an actual performance.