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Union Jack

Lindsay Gordon Crime Series, Book 4

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The fourth novel in the Lindsay Gordon series.

Leaving her new home in California for a trade union conference in Sheffield, Lindsay Gordon finds herself in the company of old friends – and enemies, including Tom Jack. When this unethical union leader is found dead, having catapulted out of Lindsay’s tenth-floor hotel room, she is taken in for questioning by the police. Hoping to clear her name by finding the real killer, Lindsay searches among hundreds of unruly union delegates for a murderer who may have struck once before. Along the way she uncovers a seething cauldron of blackmail, corruption and abuse of power, all brought to the boil by her investigation.

©1993 Val McDermid (P)2018 W.F. Howes Ltd Crime Thrillers Mystery Police Procedural Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction Crime Thriller

Critic reviews

"Tough, exciting, moody and unpredictable." (The Times)

“Neatly constructed and splendidly sarcastic about the circus of union politics.” (Daily Telegraph)

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I love this author and this book was good ....quite often I end up laying awake as I can’t leave the story however this one although good did not grip me in that way so not the highest score . Still worth a listen .

Did not grip me

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Whilst I accept that Val McDermid is Scots and presenting the book with a Scottish person reading gives emphasis to the book, lately the person reading the book has an accent that is quite broad and makes for difficult listening for those of us not fully accustomed to the accent.
This appears to be a trend with other books written by authors from Scotland and publishers should think about this if they wish to make their superb writers available to all.

Readers accent to broad

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The attempt at different accents is appalling- unconvincing (eg a Yorkshire accent somewhere between American and alien), inconsistent (so you don’t know which character is speaking). Ghastly!

Dreadful narration

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i love val mcdermid but i had to discontinue listening and maybe go to the written word; the reader ruined this for me and i had to give up

had to give up

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The start of this heavy going with all the conference detail! Worth persevering though.

Another Lindsay Gordon Thriller

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