Booklog 32/26: Sarah Hawkswood: Servant of Death – Bradecote and Catchpoll #1 – Audiobook

[jacey]

Audiobook narrated by Matt Addis.

I've listened to most of the currently available Bradecote and Catchpoll books, so it was lovely to get hold of the first one. After a skirmish with outlaws in the Sheriff of Worcestershire's company of knights and men-at-arms, Hugh Bradecote would simply like to go home and rest, but the Sheriff's men stay the night at Pershore Abbey where the abbot asks for help to solve a murder. The Bishop of Winchester's envoy has been found dead, prostrate in front of the high altar. The sheriff appoints Hugh as deputy under-sheriff and teams him up with wily Serjeant Catchpoll, experienced thief-taker. The two men don't hit it off immediately. Hugh is a bit sniffy about working with someone of Catchpoll's lowly status, and Catchpoll doesn't wan an inexperienced nobleman getting between him and the killer. But gradually as the investigation progresses, the two man begin to develop a grudging respect for each other. Matt Addis reads this whole series brilliantly. He gets the voices just right from Bradecote's fluent English and Caatchpoll's yokel burr which hides a sharp mind.