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Death in Fine Condition

By: Andrew Cartmel
Narrated by: Olivia Dowd
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Cordelia knows books. An addict-turned-dealer of classic paperbacks, when she's not spending her days combing the charity shops and jumble sales of suburban London for valuable collector's items, she's pining for the woman of her dreams and nimbly avoiding her landlord's demands for rent.

The most elusive prize of all, her white whale, has surfaced — a set of magnificent, vintage Sleuth Hound crime novels. Gorgeous, and as rare as they come. Just one problem. They're not for sale. Still, that won't stop a resourceful woman like Cordelia… One burglary later, the books are hers. Unfortunately, the man she's just robbed turns out be one of London's most dangerous gangsters, and now he's on her trail and out for blood.

Cordelia's best laid plans to pay the rent and woo the object of her affections start to fall apart, and she realises she may have placed herself in the crosshairs of a villain torn straight from the pages of her treasured novels.©2022 Andrew Cartmel (P)2022 W. F. Howes Ltd Amateur Sleuths Animals Cosy Detective Mystery Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Fiction Suspense
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I tried to warm to Cordelia but I couldn’t. I thinks she’s almost as loathsome and self-centred as her brother in her own way. I love the Vinyl Detective and it was interesting to bump into familiar characters, though I didn’t like Cordelia’s fixation with Agatha, especially as she was unaware of what was going through Cordelia’s head. I’m most of the way through this (3 hours left) but I’ve just had enough, I really don’t care what happens to Cordelia.

I just didn’t like the main character

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I’ve read a few of the authors “Vinyl Detective” stories and was surprised to find the change of both writing style and character. A simple tale, light but fun and beautifully described. A great beach read

An interesting change of style and gender

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Really enjoyed this distraction from the Vinyl Detective series. Love how Cordelia relishes not actually being very nice but we still root for her. Nice cameos, even Tinkler isn’t annoying so hopefully the author has taken not of the criticism of Tinkler’s last few outings. Hope there will be a follow up…..

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Decent story but a bit padded, testament to the writers skill that he manages to make the reader warm to a character that doesn’t really have a single redeeming feature. Prefer the Vinyl crew.

Enjoyable but not his best.

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I enjoyed this book and liked how it interconnected with the characters from the Vinyl Detective series.
Looking forward to more.

Interesting take on crime fiction

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