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Die for Love

By: Elizabeth Peters
Narrated by: Grace Conlin
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The annual Historical Romance Writers of the World convention in New York City is calling to Jacqueline Kirby, a Nebraska librarian who desperately desires some excitement. But all is not love and kisses at this august gathering of starry-eyed eccentrics and sentimental scribes. As far as Jacqueline is concerned, the sudden "natural" death of a gossip columnist seems anything but. And when she's approached by a popular genre star who fears for her own life, the resourceful Ms. Kirby quickly goes back to work … as a sleuth.

There's a sinister scenario being penned at this purple prose congregation. And when jealousy and passion are released from the boundaries of the printed page, the result can be murder.

©1984 Elizabeth Peters (P)1997 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Women Sleuths
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“Delicious stereotypes abound as each author tries to outdo the others. The narrator splendidly delivers the banter and wordplay of these wordsmiths. Peters is a natural for audio because conversation is central to her work. Conlin wonderfully portrays the array of characters.”

(AudioFile)

“A good addition to mystery collections.”

(Library Journal)

“Conlin reads in a rich, resonant and beautifully cadenced voice. Her timing is impeccable and she carries you effortlessly through the story. Light and enjoyable.”

(Kliatt)
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The copyright is 1984 and that it is an outdated form of amateur sleuth is too obvious to be ignored: the clever amateur collects clues and then excruciatingly gathers a crowd of possible perpetrators and v e r y slowly points the spotlight to each person gathered while the perpetrator over confident in the lack of clues to convict him/her sits complacently while the tale is unraveled. Audiences to day are more sophistcated and may enjoy the light hearted proceedings, but with modern forensic methods like to see a more realistic procedural.

Of its Age

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Loved every minute. Laughed and marvelled at Peters skills at telling a good story with brilliant twists and turns. Fabulous narrator.

Elizabeth Peters at her sharp and witty best!

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I have loved Elizabeth Peters Peabody books and decided as this was on the 2 for 1 credit offer I would give it a try. I found the narration hard but decided I had to accept that the monotone was intentional. It only seemed to be that way when the main character was thinking. I did enjoy the story and typically there are things that made me smile. Glad I listened to the end.

Glad I stuck with it.

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Nothing else that Peters wrote equals her Amelia Peabody series (although Vicky Bliss is quite fun) but the Jaqueline Kirby series is okay as bedtime listening. Jaqueline is spiky, bossy, snarky and intelligent, and most importantly, well-read, as she should be as a librarian. Here, she attends a conference of romantic novelists, having decided that writing a steamy novel should be easy, but both conference and novel are barely under way before there's a murder.
Were I to meet Jaqueline in real life I'd probably loathe her, but she does have some good qualities. She can be very kind, although never, in Die for Love, to her unwilling sidekick.
The narration is not perfect, but Conlin's dry style does suit Jaqueline very well. The trouble is that, despite her efforts, she can't help making some of the other characters sound much more sardonic than they are, but once you tune in to the rather monotonous delivery you start to hear more nuance.
I can't help liking a protagonist who gives chase in her bedroom slippers, so I've listened to both Audible Plus's offerings in this series, and enjoyed both.

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Die for Love is well written in an atmospheric situation of writer and their publishers. What people will do for power and money . I love the heroine Jacqueline and the way she pieces together the crime.

Atmospheric tale about literary folk

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