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Heads You Lose
- Inspector Cockrill Mysteries Series, Book 1
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins
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Summary
In the English countryside, one of the well-mannered guests at Pigeonsford Estate may be a murderer in this series debut by an Edgar Award-nominated author.
As war rages in Europe, the citizens of London flee to the country. At Pigeonsford, a group of guests plays cards, drinks tea, and acts polite - but Grace Morland knows the strong emotions that lurk beneath the placid social surface. She's painfully in love with Stephen Pendock, the squire of Pigeonsford, but Pendock's smitten with young beauty Francesca Hart. One afternoon, Fran debuts a new hat, and Grace's jealousy gets the better of her. She exclaims, "I wouldn't be seen dead in a ditch in a thing like that!" She will soon be proven wrong. Grace is found dead with the hat on her head - and her head removed from her neck. To the scene comes the incomparable Inspector Cockrill, who finds that far more than petty jealousy lies beneath this hideous murder.
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- Bastet Pybus
- 07-07-21
Great to have these Christianna Brand novels on audio
But why have a male narrator when a large part of the charm of these novels comes from Brand’s witty authorial voice??? Inspector Cockerill is not the main character!
The narrator is OK but doesn’t really convey the nuance of character - so although these recordings are better than nothing, they feel like a missed opportunity.
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- Arnfinn Rong
- 17-11-22
You are in the hands of a master
You're in the hands of both a master storyteller as well as a perfect reader for the story
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- The Curator
- 21-03-23
Very odd
It felt like this book was written in the 1950s so strange was it’s approach to plot (red herrings, info coming from nowhere and dreams) and it’s grotesque characters. I rather hoped more of them might get bumped off. There’s an older man who has been in love with the extremely vapid young woman since she was literally a child, her sister who claims to be obsessed by her own husband (the husband is Jewish in case you miss all the dodgy and downright anti-Semitic references ). The detective does nothing and even the dog is irritating. Just bizarre!
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- Anonymous User
- 12-04-23
This book was highly recommended, but I didn’t enjoy it much.
I love to listen to “cozy” detective stories, especially because I spend many hours driving alone, and this book seemed to match my taste and expectations.
However, the story was a bit bizzarre and not very engaging.
I don’t understand what was the purpose of having the chain smoking, grumpy detective, since he seems to be always present, but not that useful.
I didn’t dislike the book, but the ending was a little abrupt and the characters too cliché.
Once I finished the boom I learned that it was written in 1988, so maybe it just hasn’t aged well, but I’m not going to listen to any other book in this series.
The reader did a great job, his performance his excellent, unfortunately the story was just average for me.
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