Having a tough guy that thinks he can get away with murder is frustrating, right?! Every good crime mystery has one. The same goes for the innocent bystander that gets accused first and the gossiper! Every good crime mystery has one of those too, even if the part is slight or insignificant compared to the entire story. Martin has some interesting twists that take the characters on a merry-go-round, circling back to through the same suspects, knowing that one of them has to be their person of interest, but everyone has a motive and intent to do it.
Sergeant Winston Windflower is the one in charge of the crime investigation of a local man, found dead on the Cape, from what is assumed to be from a fatal heart attack. According to the coroners report though, the man was poisoned. With a small community like this one, it shouldn’t be very hard to weed out what happened right?! Windflower and his team must follow the breadcrumbs to find out exactly who wanted him dead and why. With what seems to be, at first glance, an open and shut case–starts to turn into a more complex and inundated investigation when secrets about some of the residents start popping up left and right. These secrets may make or break the case, so Windflower has to be careful and quick with his arrest before another body is found dead.
Windflower has a basic crime fiction story with likable characters, but this audiobook somewhat feels very slow and may cause some readers to disengage or get bored easily. There is nothing that stands out about this story or separates it from the rest of the genre as a “must read”. The story appears to be well-written, with Kearney providing effortless narration; however, the accent is thick and may not be likable to readers either considering that his vocals do not match what is ideal of the main character. If you are a reader of crime fiction and murder mysteries, you may enjoy reading this story.
A copy of this audiobook was provided to Turning Another Page by Audiobookworm Promotions and in no way affects the honesty of this review. We provide a three-star rating to The Walker on the Cape by Mike Martin.
Note: review originally published on May 27, 2019
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