Superb

I forgot just how good Lynda Is Plants is. Evan though forensics and communication has come along way since the book was set, the story telling and characters and plot are so good that those details don't matter, in fact they add to the frustration of not solving the crimes more quickly.
I don't know if LLP wrote with Helen Mirren in mind but, Helen Mirren IS Jane Tennison following her portrayal for tv of the detective. The narrator of this book picked the traits displayed by Mirren beautifully and I felt as though I was watching rather than listening!
Still makes me fume that Tennison was disrespected by her colleagues so frequently purely on her gender! I sincerely hope things are very different now.

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brilliant

loved this book excellent narration can't wait to start another story of Jane Tennyson. thanks

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Murder mile a grisly mile indeed

Although I enjoyed this book I found it very grissly to read but nevertheless I finished it. I did enjoy the story ,although as others have mentioned the accents were very bad for some of the characters.

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Very Good

Excellently narrated, a great story, and I was really riveted, I couldn't put it down!

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Mixed bag

I think this book suffers from the huge success and increasing sophistication of the murder mysteries published and filmed since it was written. Linda La Plante is a brilliant writer of plot and character, but the audience has moved on in every way from this book's world, so it feels very dated and awkward, like an embarrassingly racist and homophobic older relative at a party. As a consequence, the 'mystery' has pretty much evaporated, and the characters are more like caricatures and grotesques. Unfortunately, the outdated themes/characterisation/phraseology is definitely not made better by the narrator, whose 'accents' are so bad that they are heading towards being actually offensive - the Scottish accent is excruciating, and the Jamaican accent is much closer to Irish, bizarrely. The RP-to-Estuary (via-stage-Cockney) range is less grating, which is good because that accounts for the bulk of the narration. The narrator/producer really should have let other actors do those voice parts!

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Enjoyed this

Really dated when it comes to homosexuality but represented the times accurately. Boggles the mind that this was only 40 years ago.

Narration very good (unless you’re Scottish or Jamaican!). Worth a free listen.

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I liked it but tbh, it was more of a 3.75 than a 4!

It was an ok story, but all the characters were always snapping at each other! If they’d been my friends or colleagues, I’d have been having words about conduct lol! I kept thinking there was going to be a further twist because the story was given out so easily, but there wasn’t. Enjoyable enough but I’ll prob forget about the story by next week!

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Excellent story shame about the narration

The story was excellent but the accents of the narrator for the other characters such as the Jamaican and Scottish accents were jarring. If you can get past that all well read.

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Brilliant but WOW at the accents!

A great story as you'd expect. The narration is really good except for attempts at accents. A Scottish and, far worse, a Jamaican character come out very badly!

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Another great listern

Another great listen from Lynda La Plante, very well read and could not wait to continue the story. Have already got her next book ready to start

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