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Borrowed Time

By: Robert Goddard
Narrated by: John Telfer
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One fateful summer evening, businessman Robin Timariot meets a strikingly beautiful woman while out walking. They exchange only a few words, but those words prove to be unforgettable. A few days later, the newspapers are full of the rape and murder of Lady Louise Paxton - and to his horror, Timariot realises that this was the woman he met just hours before her death.

A man is swiftly charged and convicted of the crime, but a series of bizarre events begin to convince Timariot that all is not what it seems. Against his better judgment, he is soon sucked into the tortuous complexity of the dead woman's life. But the closer Timariot gets to the truth, the more hideous and uncertain it seems to be. And far too late, he realises that anybody who uncovers it is unlikely to live....

©1995 Robert Goddard (P)2018 Audible, Ltd Crime Fiction Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Crime Fiction

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I stuck with it cos I was sewing and seemed like good company - but honestly! This is the second book of Robert Goddard I have listened too and now I realise that they are pretty much the same..
A male lead who makes shocking decisions and the story ambles on for hours as we listen to him regret his decisions only to have a massive twist at the end... enjoyable but had I not been otherwise distracted with the sewing I probably would have felt like ending this myself!!!!
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Bit long...

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I have heard good things about Robert Goddard but this book would not convince me to try more. The idea of the protagonist meeting a woman just before her murder held a lot of promise but the storyt doesn't deliver. The main character has a very tenous link with the victim and her family and so it is not credible how embroiled he becomes in the aftermath of her murder. The story goes on and on in tedious detail with very little development and reveal until the end of the book. The writing style is very good and the narration was very good although the male lead sounds older than the character he was portraying. and I personally prefer female characters to be narrated by females.The accents especially the French were good . I struggled to finish book and would not recommend it although I will give Robert Goddard another chance and hope for better.

Disappointing

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Just when I thought it had resolved another twist to the plot came along. Not at all predictable, well narrated ( which improved with a slight increase in speed). All in all a very satisfying listen as it always is with Robert Goddard novels.

More twists than a twister

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As a middle of the road, holiday read, this book passes. The main issue I have with it is I never understood or related to the main characters obsession with a stranger he met for 5 minutes. As the thread which wove all other plot lines and characters together, this fundamentally spoiled my enjoyment of the story.

An ok read

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This was very well narrated, and I usually enjoy Robert Goddard books but the story in this one was rather unreal and convoluted, although I did listen to the end.

Well narrated

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