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A Holmes for the Czar

By: Gorg Huff, Paula Goodlett
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Ufa is going crazy. The new capital of the legitimate government of Russia, once a trading post in the far east, is now a fast-growing boom town. Into this maelstrom come peddlers and exotic dancers, criminals and craftsmen, nobles and assassins. Crime is running rampant and the city guards that passes for policemen don't have a clue how to handle it—and wouldn’t know a clue if they stumbled right over it. They can manage to walk a beat, at least in broad daylight. But solve a crime?
Not a chance. And Czar Michael Romanov and his officials aren’t any help, since they’re pre-occupied with building a nation out of spit and bailing wire.
But the bargirl who was murdered had friends who cared. And those friends call in Vasilii Lyapuno, an engineer working at the newly-founded Dacha in Ufa, who loves up-timer murder mysteries.
Can Vasilii track down the killer? Luckily for him, he has the assistance of another bargirl named Miroslava, who has a unique way of seeing the world. Together they might figure out who did what to whom and who was responsible for the crime.
Crimes, rather. Murder starts adding up. Crime Mystery Murder Russia Fiction Hard-Boiled Adventure Science Fiction Time Travel

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a great story. based on the 1632 universe the unlikely tale of a bargirl detective in the Tzar's parallel Russia. humorous and self aware of detective tropes the novel was enjoyable. the virtual voice narration is better than ancient text to speech, but it is still a dismal replacement for a red blooded professional which make audiobooks enjoyable. I wish it was human narrated.

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Story was pretty good, but I had a very hard time getting past the terrible "Virtual Voice". The narration is stilted and pronunciation of words and names is just weird sometimes. Really detracts from the enjoyment of the story. Please go back to human readers. I hate this so much I will never buy another audio book with Virtual Voice

Virtual voice is terrible.

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Virtual Voice is undoubtedly less expensive, but give us George Guidall! He knows how to pronounce 1636 and AK 47 consistently, plus actually reads well.

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