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Booked for Murder

Lindsay Gordon, Book 5

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Booked for Murder

By: Val McDermid
Narrated by: Caroline Guthrie
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Why would anyone want to kill Penny Varnavides, bestselling author of the 'Teen Dreams' series? Her demise can't be the freak accident it first appeared – it's an exact replica of the murder method in her forthcoming book. 

Only three people knew the plot of Penny's unpublished novel: her literary agent, her editor and her ex-girlfriend Meredith. In an effort to clear Meredith, Lindsay Gordon delves beneath the glittering facade of the seemingly glamorous world of London publishing in search of a murderer. 

While hobnobbing with industry notables, Lindsay encounters an unsavoury mix of soured relationships, desperate power plays, underhanded fraud, and seething rivalries. Who, amongst this sordid group, wanted Penny Varnavides dead?  

©1996 Val McDermid (P)2018 W. F. Howes Ltd Crime Crime Thrillers Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Mystery Suspense Thriller Thriller & Suspense Urban Murder
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“Funny and scary by turns; always sharp.” (Daily Telegraph)

“The writing is tough and colourful, the scene setting excellent.” (Times Literary Supplement)

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I got confused by who the largely female cast were and found the narrator's grasp of accents laughable. Quite well plotted but I felt I really didn't care about the characters or how the story turned out.

Not her best

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All Val McDermid books are good, however I would say this is not one of the best. But the accents (apart from Scottish) were really pretty awful, which was a shame.

Good story.. awful accents

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The narrator's broad Scottish brogue attempting to do other accents is horrible. AArh - Liverpool accent that sounds part Irish, the Cockney with rolled 'rrrs' the American that sounds like nothing on earth. I bought this book two years ago and sadly it's too late to return it. The story is a bit dull too, by comparison to others I've read.

Don't bother

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Please don't try to do accents again, Caroline G. So distracting. Worse than my ex-husbands awful impressions.And that's pretty bad.

ruined by awful narration

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This is a very good book to read but you've got to concentrate very hard to keep up with the plot.

A very,very good book.

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