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Title: Common Murder: The Second Lindsay Gordon Mystery by Val McDermid ISBN: 1-883523-08-7 Publisher: Spinsters Ink Pub. Date: October, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Good easy and fun read
Comment: After reading 'A Place for Execution' I sought out McDermids earlier works. This along with the rest of the Lindsay Gordon series are light, easy and fun reads. I found the characters to be a little left of center, but that is what certainly made them interesting!
The whole Lindsay Gordon series is like a young lesbian version of Murder She Wrote. A little more racey than Jessica Fletcher and a lot more fun.
If you enjoy English humour (dry wit and loads of sarcasm) and want some fun who dunnit mystery reads, read the whole series but do yourself a favor... start with number one and move through the series in order. Will make a lot more sense. Common Murder is number 2 in the series and a fun read, but Lindsay makes a lot more sense if you start with the first book which is 'Report for Murder.'
Rating: 3
Summary: Liked it, didn't love it
Comment: A short 250ish pages, it would have been better to have cut 100 pages and make this a short story without all of the unnecessary and meaningless character-developing diversions. The book runs along in 3rd gear most of the time, never really reaching a dramatic climax, which is really not good for a mystery, and the pretense is a little hard to believe: intrepid reporter for London tabloid gets everyone's help in solving murder mystery, even help from those who shouldn't be helping her. Certainly not the best mystery out there.
Rating: 3
Summary: Intriguing, but a little dense
Comment: I read this as an english person with knowledge, via the media, of the Greenham Common events upon which it as based. I am male, which may be a disadvantage, given the radical lesbian feminist label it adopts, but I enjoyed the alternative perspective. Shall I be honest ? It is not her best. Lindsay and her pals are a bit irritating. the prose is overlong and tends to lose dramatic point as you meander around the, rather hackneyed, plot. But... hey, do not take that as criticism Val. I am enjoing what you are doing and place you in the Paretsky and Parker class when it comes to crime fiction. Maybe my scepticism derives from the fact that it is hard for us anglos to sound glib, hard-boiled etc. Apart that is, from Terry Venables, another once upon a time crime writer. Keep up the good work !
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Title: Deadline for Murder: The Third Lindsay Gordon Mystery ((Lindsay Gordon Mysteries Ser ; Vol 3)) by Val McDermid ISBN: 1883523176 Publisher: Spinsters Ink Pub. Date: April, 1997 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Report for Murder by Val McDermid ISBN: 1883523249 Publisher: Spinsters Ink Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Conferences Are Murder: The Fourth Lindsay Gordon Mystery by Val McDermid ISBN: 1883523303 Publisher: Spinsters Ink Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Booked for Murder: The Fifth Lindsay Gordon Mystery (Lindsay Gordon Mystery Series) by Val McDermid ISBN: 1883523370 Publisher: Spinsters Ink Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Crack Down (Kate Brannigan Series (3rd Book).) by V. L. McDermid ISBN: 1883523508 Publisher: Spinsters Ink Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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