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Another Man's Poison

George and Molly Palmer-Jones, Book 6

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Another Man's Poison

By: Ann Cleeves
Narrated by: Sean Barrett
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Ann Cleeves Classic Crime—engaging mysteries to savour, beloved characters to meet again

Another Man’s Poison is the fifth mystery novel featuring George and Molly Palmer-Jones by Ann Cleeves, author of the Shetland and Vera Stanhope crime series.

Molly Palmer-Jones arrives at her aunt Ursula’s house one morning, only to find her body slumped lifeless on the sofa....

Ursula Ottway’s beautiful cottage is wanted by her landlord, politician Marcus Grenville, so he can convert it into a holiday residence. So when Ursula discovers that the illegal use of poisoned bait on Grenville’s land has killed not only a rare bird of prey but her two beloved cats, she storms to his house and threatens revenge. Shocked and saddened to find Ursula’s body the morning after this conflict, Molly and her husband, George, decide to piece together a picture of Ursula’s last days. And it soon becomes clear that, for many people on the estate, hers was a very convenient death.

The Palmer-Joneses embark on a murder investigation but even their professional expertise doesn’t prepare them for what is to follow. A lifetime’s worth of secrets must surface before a killer can finally be brought to justice....

©2016 Ann Cleeves (P)2016 Ulverscroft Amateur Sleuths Crime Fiction Mystery Traditional Detectives Fiction Detective Crime Suspense Murder
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the narrator kept me listening because story was slow but picked up pace towards the end

engrossing towards the end though drags on a bit d

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The story is solid. It does drag a bit in the middle but overall good.

Good read

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I want to like this series more, but the way the detective protagonists are portrayed leaves me uninterested in them and their inner workings.
As an author, Cleeves later developed better more compelling characters in Vera and Shetland.
This my third George and Molly Palmer book by Cleeves and while the stories are pretty well constructed, George and Molly are thinly written and come across as dull and conflicted about themselves and each other — which might make a better book in a different series.

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