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Murder, She Wrote: A Time for Murder
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
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Summary
Young Jessica Fletcher’s life couldn’t be more ordinary. She teaches at the local high school while she and her loving husband, Frank, are raising their nephew Grady together. But when the beloved principal dies under mysterious circumstances, Jessica knows something is off and, for the very first time, investigates a death.
Present-day Jessica returns to high school for a colleague’s retirement party and has fun seeing familiar faces. That is, until the colleague winds up dead - and his death has mysterious links to Jessica’s very first murder case. With nothing but her own instincts to guide her, Jessica embarks on a quest to find out what really happened all those years ago and who’s behind these murders. Because time is running out to catch this killer....
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- markfromlodz
- 31-03-22
Utterly UTTERLY ridiculous ending
This is actually one of the better MSW books. It takes us back to Jessica's first murder, and reintroduces the character of Amos Tupper. The story jumps between the past and the present, and I actually found it quite engaging. Some of the other MSW books I found quite a chore to get through.
However, it all comes to a crashing halt with a few chapters to go, when Jessica figures it all out. I can't say much without giving it all away, but I guarantee you will not have heard anything so implausible in your life. There would be a back-up for the back-up. It's called redundancy. And it is absolutely infeasible that such a situation could have occurred.
It only gets more ridiculous when you consider that Jess and Mort must be living in some strange suspended animation, because there's no way these 2 people in their late 90s would be able to do what they do.
In saying that it's one of the better MSW stories, that doesn't mean it's a very good one. The author, Jon Land, has somehow managed to take 3 characters (Jessica, Mort and Seth) and make them unlikeable. Their bickering is simply irritating. I get the impression he was aiming for crotchety, good humoured old folks, but that's not the way it comes off.
The narrator is not as irritating as other narrators, although there are moments when she should have been made to rerecord a few lines here and there --- it's not pleasant listening to someone speak when they have too much saliva in their mouth. However, she suffers from the same problem as other narrators --- she simply doesn't know how to inject Jessica's humour into the text. She can read the lines but she can't act the lines. She attempts different voices, with varying degrees of success. That said, I found her much easier to listen to than some of the others.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Terry
- 15-12-19
Great book
Really good book with lots of twists and turns to keep you on the edge of your seat
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Overall1 out of 5 stars
- Lenny
- 31-12-21
narrator
narrator sounded like a computer generated voice spoilt the storyline which was a shame
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