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    Report for Murder
    Report for Murder
    Report for Murder
    Audiobook7 hours

    Report for Murder

    Written by Val McDermid and Caroline Guthrie

    Narrated by Caroline Guthrie

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    About this audiobook

    Lindsay Gordon, self-proclaimed cynical socialist lesbian feminist journalist is less than overjoyed at the prospect of spending a weekend at a posh girls' boarding school. Tensions are running high over the school's financial problems; the fact that school alumna and reknowned musician Lorna Smith-Couper, will return to the school to perform at a benefit concert only exacerbates anxieties. When Smith-Couper is found strangled with her own cello string right before the concert, Lindsay and Cordelia find their new relationship tested in unique ways as they seek to find the murderer among a long list of suspects. ...a clever mystery, a good read, and a heroine who is my kind of woman: Lindsay Gordon is smart, tenacious, daring, lusty, loyal, and class-conscious to the bone --Barbara Neely, author of the Blanche White series.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateMar 23, 2018
    ISBN9781501989735
    Report for Murder
    Author

    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.

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    • 4/5
      This is one of Val McDermid's first books and as such, it's not bad. Not as great as her current novels are, but not bad. A prestigious girls school might have to close because a developer wants the land. The school sponsors a benefit weekend with a craft fair and concert. Lorna Smith-Couper, a noted cellist and school graduate is to perform. Lindsay Gordon, a friend of one of the school's teachers, Paddy Callahan, has been asked to cover the event for the publication.Before Lorna can perform, however, she is brutally murdered, and Paddy is arrested. The fact that many people had opportunity and motive seems to make no difference. The school's headmaster asked Lindsay and noted novelist Cordelia Brown, another of Paddy's friends and also a graduate, to look into the murder, in hopes of freeing Paddy.Can they save Paddy? The book has a good plot and lots of action. So, if you're interested in McDermid's early works, put this on the list.
    • 4/5
      Report for Murder by Val McDermid ( Book 1 in the Lindsay Gordon Series) 3.5 Stars
      Freelance journalist Lindsay Gordon is short of money so has agreed to write an article about a fundraising gala at Derbyshire House Girls' School for a Magazine. This is something she wouldn't normally do as she is a strident socialist and disagrees with private/public schools, however it is also tempered as one of her best friends is a teacher at the school and it will give her a chance to see her. At the gala one of its famous former pupils, Lorna Smith-Couper, is due to give a music concert. However before the concert starts she is found dead in the locked music practice room, garrotted by a cello string. Who was responsible? A teacher? A pupil? A parent? A jilted lover? Someone visiting the concert? Lindsay sets about investigating the murder, along with Cordelia, her Dr. Watson, who also had the opportunity to murder her and is being sued by the victim.

      If you have previously read one of Val McDermid's gritty psychological books in the Tony Hill/Carol Jordan series this is a very different animal. Almost a pussy cat compared to a lion! It is the first book Val McDermid wrote and in my opinion would be classed as a cosy mystery.

      Lindsay Gordon is a likeable enough character but can at times be unkind in what she says to Cordelia, and sometimes rushes in without thinking first. You sometimes wonder how she manages to survive the book without being killed herself! You are also left wondering at times why the potential murderers are agreeing to talk to her.

      It is quite a quick and easy read and the plot constantly moves on once we get to the murder. There are a number of potential murderers, including connections to the school and Lorna's private life. There are red herrings and twists a plenty.

      If you like Cosy Mysteries I'm sure you'll enjoy this book but possibly for me it is let down after reading some of her later best stuff (IMHO) in Tony Hill. Certainly wasn't what I would have expected from Val McDermid. That having been said I'm sure I will continue the series as I come across the books but won't be scouring the country high and low looking for them at the earliest opportunity. As a result I gave this book 3.5 stars, 3 stars on Shelfari's scoring.
    • 4/5
      Freelance (read struggling to make ends meet) journalist, Lindsay Gordon, finds herself covering a fund-raising weekend at a girls' public school at the behest of long-time friend Patricia 'Paddy' Callaghan. Being a self-described cynical socialist lesbian feminist, it's also a chance for her to see how the silver spoon brigade are nurtured. She also desperately needed the cash that the job would bring in.Her plans are ruined when the star turn for the concert part of the event is found murdered just moments before she's due on stage, it's time for some amateur sleuthing which turns more serios when Paddy is arrested for the crime. Teaming up with new love interest and potential suspect, author Cordelia Brown, they try and prove Paddy's innocence and track down the real killer. The police seem happy enough with their arrest and don't seem intent on doing much more about it. There's plenty of plot-twists and enough suspects to keep you guessing until the final showdown. Not a bad debut novel and I'll look forward to reading more of this series and others from the author.
    • 4/5
      Lindsay Gordon is an interesting character, a freelance journalist who, in this book, takes a job covering a fundraising gala at a school because she needs the money. Of course she gets caught up in a murder and one of her friends is arrested. An enjoyable read.