Catherine Nixey
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366 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 16 Jul
Catherine Nixey’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And why are such quintessential American thrillers being filmed as these often are in places like Manchester?
And above all, how do characters who have such humdrum jobs afford such astonishingly swanky kitchens?
His shows have also elicited some critical bafflement too.
Though some of them have received decent reviews, like Stay Close about a cold case that suddenly heats up, others have been rather less lauded.
His plots have been called twisty and confusing, not without cause.
The series' plots are what might politely be called eventful, unless delicately be called soap operas.
Open the episode menu for Netflix's 2021 series The Innocent, and over the course of four swift episodes, you find yourself offered an accidental murder, episode one, an alleged suicide, episode two.
And a mysterious nun in episode three, who is rapidly a mysteriously dead mysterious nun.
These are followed by episode four, in which, as the episode summary explains, the nun's body is scribbled away by federal agents, which infuriates Lorena.
Non corpse theft can be so annoying.
Coben's plots then are not Pinterestque, but nor are they meant to be.
His books are archetypal thrillers.
They have dark, ominous covers, fog is a feature, and ominous strap lines in the A Missing Girl, a deadly game.
A lot of full stops, vain.
Their characters tend to have names that sound as though they might be medical procedures, Griffin Scope, or possibly Cockney Rhymingslang, Larry Gandal.
Either way, they sound bad.
So why do people like them so much?
Well, it's partly that family tragedy is, as Sophocles could have told you, always compelling.
And it's partly because the setting helps.
Just as Greek tragedy was removed from a too alarming immediacy by being set in similar but different Thebes, so Coben's tragedies are calmed a bit by being set in the similar but different world of swishy murder series chic.
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