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Booked for Murder

By: Val McDermid
Narrated by: Caroline Guthrie
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Summary
 The fifth novel in the Lindsay Gordon series

Why would anyone want to kill Penny Varnavides, bestselling author of the 'Teen Dreams' series? Her demise can't be the freak accident it first appeared – it's an exact replica of the murder method in her forthcoming book. Only three people knew the plot of Penny's unpublished novel: her literary agent, her editor and her ex-girlfriend Meredith. In an effort to clear Meredith, Lindsay Gordon delves beneath the glittering facade of the seemingly glamorous world of London publishing in search of a murderer. While hobnobbing with industry notables, Lindsay encounters an unsavoury mix of soured relationships, desperate power plays, underhanded fraud, and seething rivalries. Who, amongst this sordid group, wanted Penny Varnavides dead?

“Funny and scary by turns; always sharp.” DAILY TELEGRAPH

“The writing is tough and colourful, the scene setting excellent.” TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT©1996 Val McDermid (P)2018 W. F. Howes Ltd Crime Crime Thrillers Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Mystery Suspense Thriller Thriller & Suspense Murder
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I got confused by who the largely female cast were and found the narrator's grasp of accents laughable. Quite well plotted but I felt I really didn't care about the characters or how the story turned out.

Not her best

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All Val McDermid books are good, however I would say this is not one of the best. But the accents (apart from Scottish) were really pretty awful, which was a shame.

Good story.. awful accents

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The narrator's broad Scottish brogue attempting to do other accents is horrible. AArh - Liverpool accent that sounds part Irish, the Cockney with rolled 'rrrs' the American that sounds like nothing on earth. I bought this book two years ago and sadly it's too late to return it. The story is a bit dull too, by comparison to others I've read.

Don't bother

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Please don't try to do accents again, Caroline G. So distracting. Worse than my ex-husbands awful impressions.And that's pretty bad.

ruined by awful narration

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This is a very good book to read but you've got to concentrate very hard to keep up with the plot.

A very,very good book.

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