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Union Jack

By: Val McDermid
Narrated by: Gemma Stroyan, Val McDermid
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From the no.1 bestseller Val McDermid: When union leader Tom Jack falls to his death after a spectacularly public row with Lindsay, the only way to prove her innocence is to find the real culprit.
When lecturer Lindsay Gordon returns to the UK for a trade union conference in Sheffield, she finds herself in the company of old friends and enemies, including corrupt union leader Tom Jack.

When Tom is found dead, falling from Lindsay’s tenth-floor hotel room, she is instantly pegged as the top suspect.

Desperate to clear her name, Lindsay searches for the real killer among the hundreds of union delegates at the conference, uncovering a seething cauldron of blackmail and corruption.

Praise for Val McDermid

‘McDermid remains unrivalled … Brilliant’ Observer

‘Val McDermid is a born storyteller… absorbing reading’ Sunday Telegraph

‘A classic … McDermid pulls out all the stops. Impeccable’ Guardian©1993 Val Mcdermid (P)2026 W.F.Howes ltd Crime Thrillers Mystery Police Procedural Suspense Thriller & Suspense Women Sleuths Fiction Crime Thriller
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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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