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Gallows Court
- Rachel Savernake, Book 1
- Narrated by: Sheila Mitchell
- Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
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Summary
London, 1930. A headless corpse; an apparent suicide in a locked room; a man burned alive during an illusionist's show in front of thousands of people. Scotland Yard is baffled by the sequence of ghastly murders unfolding across the city, and at the centre of it all is mysterious heiress Rachel Savernake. Daughter of a grand judge, Rachel is as glamorous as she is elusive.
Jacob Flint, a tenacious young journalist eager to cover the gruesome crimes, is drawn into Rachel's glittering world of wealth and power. But as the body count continues to rise, Jacob is convinced Rachel is harbouring a dark secret, and he soon becomes part of a dangerous game that could leave him dancing at the end of the hangman's rope if he pursues the truth.
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- Gordon Barclay
- 28-05-22
Brilliant!
A wonderfully complicated pair of plots unravel through a compelling narrative. The first of, so far, two Flint/Savernake stories. Very dark - not one for fans of cosy crime!
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- Cas Perry
- 30-03-22
Complicated plot
Excessively complicated plot which left me struggling to finish the story. The narration was poor so the characters ( of which there are lots) never came to life.
Not enjoyed at all.
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- Abigail W.
- 13-10-22
Enjoyed the story but...
...the narration lets it down. So many characters and so hard to distinguish between them.
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- elly gausden
- 23-05-19
Not really as billed
This was billed and reviewed as a kind of Christie, Sayers Golden age detective fiction. It really isn't. It falls into the trap that so many modern authors do when trying to write a book set in and of the time, but spend too much time describing things no author writing at the time would do. In most cases needlessly.
Also, I didn't really like any of the characters in it. The main character spends a lot of his time pondering things and worrying, the main female character is deliberately mysterious to the point of being annoying.
It does have a twist that was unexpected, but still, it felt like a slog to get to the end.
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