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Careless in Red

An Inspector Lynley Novel, Book 15

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Careless in Red

By: Elizabeth George
Narrated by: Crispin Redman
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About this listen

 It is barely three months since the murder of his wife and Thomas Lynley takes to the South-West Coast Path in Cornwall, determined to walk its length in an attempt to distract himself from his loss. On the forty-third day of this walk, he sees a cliff climber fall to his death, apparently witnessed by a surfer in a nearby cove. Shortly afterwards, Lynley encounters a young woman from Bristol whose personal history is a blank before her thirteenth year. These events propel him into a case that brings Barbara Havers from London and thrusts both detectives into a world where revenge is only one of the motives they must sift through to identify a killer.

(P)2008 ISIS Publishing Ltd©2008 Susan Elizabeth George Crime Fiction Mystery Fiction Crime Suspense

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Critic reviews

Ms George is the connoisseur's crime writer
A first-class, page-turning read
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George at her best...

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narrator ruins the story completely, it is a parody, ridiculous voices (especially the female ones)

the narrator is horrible

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Started to listen. Straight to chapter 11!! Not good enough Audible. I’m sure book would be fine if I could start at chapter 1!!!

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