The Darkwater Bride: An Audible Original Drama

by Marty Ross, Clare Corbett (Narrator), Donal Finn (Narrator)

Late Victorian London. When the most respectable of Scottish businessmen is pulled, dead, from the Thames, his daughter is drawn into an investigation which reveals a whole world of secrets and corruption and leads all the way to the tragic truth behind the ghostly legend of The Darkwater Bride – in an epic drama combining the genres of the Victorian mystery thriller with the equally classic Victorian mode of the ghostly tale.

Rachel Atkins, Amy Cooke-Hodgson, Clare Corbett, Stephen Critchlow, Donal Finn,Jamie Glover, Peter Gold, Joel Gorf, Chris Grahamson, Edward Harrison, David Holt, Frances Jeater, Yolanda Kettle, Fiz Marcus, Freya Mavor,Gerard McDermott, Nina Millns, James Parkes, Richard Reed, Adrian Scarborough, Lizzie Stables, Mark Straker, Ben Whitehead, Sarah Whitehouse and Sarah-Louise Young.

Genres: Audiobook, Horror

Audible Audio

Published October 29, 2018

Reviews

[Carolina]

This is a great premise for a spooky season story, and you can tell the author is drawing from some of the greats of Victorian gothic and supernatural literature. The radio-style production is great fun at moments. And it tackles some difficult questions in the way it looks at the violence men and society have done to women—especially poor and desperate women.

Unfortunately, the pacing gets bogged down by multiple characters’ tendency to speechify when they should be acting. And dear god the final confrontation between Katriona and McGavigan goes on entirely too long.

[Sky Alicia Duran]

What Dark Truths Lie Here

A suspenseful mystery with a dash of supernatural, this story follows a young woman in search of the truth of how her father, a respectable businessman, was found dead near the Darkwater Bridge in the turn of the century London. In doing so, she uncovers a damping truth not just of her father's "business trips", but also the Soho slums and a phantom figure only referred to as the Darkwater Bride.

Good storyline, great quick read/listen.

[Rachel]

2.5 stars rounded up. A surprisingly enthralling story of murder and ghosts in Victorian England. Unfortunately, every single man was an awful, violent rapist except one. The amount of sexual violence was truly disturbing, especially because this is a full cast audiobook. If you can handle that, the story is entertaining, but it bordered on grotesque for me personally.

[Mahayana Dugast]

Entertaining and haunting gothic mystery acted by a great cast.

[Brent]

boring.

[Ken Seals]

That was actually horrific to read.

[SweetSerialKiller]

Awful, just awful.

Every single guy in this story is a r*pist, let that be the spoiler that stops you from listening to this story.