Booked for Murder

Name: Booked for Murder
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3.67 (3 reviews)
Author: Val McDermid
ISBN: 9781501989704

Author: Val McDermid

Series: Lindsay Gordon Mysteries #5

Narrator: Caroline Guthrie

Unabridged: 7 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/28/2018

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Women Sleuths

Synopsis

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 Only three people knew the plot of Penny's unpublished novel: her literary agent, her editor and her ex-girlfriend Meredith.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?

About Val Mcdermid

Val McDermid is the author of many crime novels and has created the notable characters Lindsay Gordon, Karen Pirie, Kate Brannigan and Tony Hill. Her novels have been translated into forty languages and have sold over 16 million copies. Visit her online at ValMcDermid.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sarah on June 19, 2020

I'm a big fan of Val McDermid's work - the Tony Hill & Carol Jordan series, later adapted into the ITV series Wire in the Blood, the Karen Pirie series, the Kate Brannigan series, her amazing standalones A Place of Execution and Killing the Shadows and even her extra-genre offerings Forensics: What......more

Goodreads review by Sharon on June 06, 2010

A mystery set in publishing world with main characters lesbians. Really, all the characters were lesbians, which seemed unrealistic to me. The plotting was jumped around and some things didn’t really make sense. The intro, especially, was meant to mislead. In the end, an underlying plot that just su......more

Goodreads review by Iris on March 08, 2017

This starts off with a very intriguing murder, but instead of getting on with the clues etc. the relationships of the characters were hashed and rehashed. This may be acceptable for many readers but I became bored.......more

Goodreads review by John on November 11, 2011

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Goodreads review by Catherine on July 24, 2014

A 2.5 stars read for me. I get the distinct sense that this was not the McDermid to start with and will try one of her other books. This one isn't terrible, but it does take a while to get going (problematic in a short book) and there are enough editing misses (one character changes surnames multipl......more