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The Perfect Murder

A pulse-pounding thriller from the multimillion-copy bestselling author

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The Perfect Murder

By: Peter James
Narrated by: Paul Panting
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The Perfect Murder is a suspenseful and gripping novella from Peter James, the bestselling author of the phenomenally successful Roy Grace series.

How do you commit the perfect murder?

Victor Smiley and his wife Joan have been married for nearly twenty years. Victor secretly loathes Joan more and more each day. Joan is bored by Victor, and his snoring drives her mad. Their marriage has reached a crisis point.

Victor decides there is only one way to get Joan out of his life for ever, but he's about to get a nasty surprise. As it turns out, Victor's not the only one with murder in mind . . .

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23 million books sold.

Don't miss the Grace series from Peter James - Roy Grace is Her Majesty Queen Camilla’s favourite fictional detective, and the series is now a major ITV show starring John Simm.

'Peter James is one of the best crime writers in the business' – Karin Slaughter, author of the Will Trent series

'Peter James is one of the best British crime writers and therefore one of the best in the world' – Lee Child, author of the Jack Reacher series

'One of the world’s most popular detective series' – The Guardian

'The master of the craft' – Daily Express

Crime Crime Thrillers Suspense Thriller Thriller & Suspense Fiction Marriage Murder Exciting
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Unfortunately, not the standard I was expecting from one of my favourite writers I'm afraid.


Disappointing

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The way the characters were introduced made them appear alive. I could swear I had seen them, although they were just words on a page. Such is the magic of good writing.

The characters

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I'm a big fan of Peter James otherwise I wouldn't have bothered with this very short book in the first place. It's a decent short story even if the final twist is something I think a lot of listeners will see coming from a mile off. Peter Panting breathes life into it and does a fair enough job of the narration so James completists will of course want to get this.

For me though next month I will be getting 45 hours of Brandon Sanderson epic fantasy for the same single credit and I can also get any of the full length novels by Peter James including the excellent Roy Grace series. It's a problem with the credit-based system of course but to me if you're going to release something this short it really should be something that's genuinely a bit special or also available for a much cheaper cash price than the fiver it's currently available for.

So, this has novelty value but not enough for me personally.

Novelty Value is Not Enough

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A run down fed up with one another couple , think of the best way to enjoy the rest of there lives without the other . Who will come out on top ?

perfect short story

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read this book before and it was even more enjoyable to listen to it - very good and recommend

hilarious

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