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Union Jack

Lindsay Gordon Crime Series, Book 4

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Union Jack

By: Val McDermid
Narrated by: Caroline Guthrie
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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 Thriller

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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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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 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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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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great story. really like the way the characters have developed over the series so far. the interaction between Lindsey and Sophie is fabulous. really feels like a relationship. made me chuckle at times. enjoyed the backdrop to the story, travelling back in time.

another great read / listen

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I couldn’t listen to the end because of the awful narration. Accents all over the place and they proved distracting, it might have been a good story but I couldn’t listen to the dreadful accents which proved distracting.

Dreadful Narration

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McDermid guarantees a well-written book, brilliant sentences and a great sense of humour. However, I felt this book was a little too dated for me. Peace protest camps were too prominently present for my liking. To me that was slightly jarring

Very well written, somewhat dated

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I’m sorry to say that the delivery of the story rather ruined it for me. The attempts at the different accents were painful and I cringed through those scenes.
The story isnt my favourite of Val’s but that’s just my personal preference and no reflection of the story, which was well written.

Ruined by the narration - sorry!

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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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I am not able to complete even the first chapter of this book and if possible would like to change it. the narator' voice is extremely irritating. impossible to continue listening.

the narrator

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