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    Report for Murder

    By Val McDermid

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    The first novel in the Lindsay Gordon series – a gripping and thrilling page-turner, starring a self-proclaimed ‘cynical socialist lesbian feminist journalist’ – from the number one bestseller Val McDermid.

    Freelance journalist Lindsay Gordon is strapped for cash. Why else would she agree to cover a fund-raising gala at a girls’ public school? But when the star attraction is found garrotted with her own cello string minutes before she is due on stage, Lindsay finds herself investigating a vicious murder.

    Who would have wanted Lorna Smith Cooper dead? Who had the key to the locked room in which her body was found? And who could have slipped out of the hall at just the right time to commit this calculated and cold-blooded crime?

    ‘The Queen of Crime reigns’ Independent

    ‘McDermid remains unrivalled . . . Brilliant’ Observer

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins UK
    Release dateJul 8, 2010
    ISBN9780007301775
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    Val McDermid

    Val McDermid is a number one bestseller whose novels have been translated into more than forty languages, and have sold over nineteen million copies. She has won many awards, including the CWA Gold Dagger the LA Times Book of the Year Award and the Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for outstanding achievement. She writes full-time and divides her time between Edinburgh and East Neuk of Fife.

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    • 4/5
      The decision by the narrator/publisher to have the Yorkshire accent feature so strongly in this audio book was a brave one, and, for this non-Yorkshire listener, a trying one. I kept wishing they would lapse into "proper" English.The story begins with the release of Cissy Kohler from prison, her sentence quashed, but the reason for the release is not given. "New evidence at come to light" - at the instigation of an American TV host into whose care Cissy is released.The conviction obtained 30 years before is under scrutiny, especially the role played by the now-dead Inspector Tallantire, Dalziel's old boss. If Cissy Kohler is innocent, what does that mean in the case of Mickledore who was hanged for the murder? In the long run the plot was a very complex one with some historical roots. Listening to an audio version probably detracted from my ability to follow the plot, as it is very difficult to check on a point that you didn't quite get the significance of at first. This book also has little quotations at the beginning of each chapter, and their meaning often quite eluded me.I was struck though by Reginald Hill's at times quirky sense of humour, interesting turn of phrase, an allusions to other literature.
    • 5/5
      Practically flawless, Reginald Hill at the top of his Dalziel & Pascoe game. Very, VERY funny in parts (particularly those involving Dalziel of course but Pascoe also gets in with a few laughs), clever and pacey. Great stuff!
    • 4/5
      Recalled to Life by Reginald Hill - very good

      I always forget just how good Reginal Hill's writing is until I pick up one of his novels.

      This is the 12th Dalziel & Pascoe book (I haven't read them all, but those I do are read in order) and they improve as you go. The first couple I read, I really didn't like. They were set in the 1970s and in accordance with the time, they were horribly sexist.

      This one brings us to the 1990s, but also looks back to 1963, the height of the Profumo Scandal and a murder in a country house. Various leading lights of the day are present and Dalziel is a young policeman in support of the Investigating Officer. Now the conviction is looking unsafe and the young Nanny who was convicted at the time is released after serving nearly 30 years. There is to be a review of the case by a different force, but Dalziel wishes to protect the reputation of his friend and mentor and is also still convinced they got it right at the time.

      Cue the adventure....

      This one was really a page turner, flew through it.
    • 5/5
      A complex plot as usual with Reg Hill, this time going back to a 1963 murder when Dalziel was a junior detective. The case is being re-investigated after one of those convicted has her verdict over-turned 30 years later. Dalziel is keen to protect the name of his then boss as well as his own and predictably runs interference on the new enquiry. Sit back and enjoy Dalziel's dialogue and don't worry about the plot twists.
    • 3/5
      This started off well, but I soon began to find it confusing: there were too many people at the house party in the 1960s who were all sleeping with each other and some of them were British and some of them were American. Dalziel and Pascoe were their usual selves and the humour was there, but I found it hard to care about any of the other characters.The solutions to the various mysteries were convoluted and involved Dalziel going to the US and apparently not knowing what a muffin or a pretzel is. I was glad when it was all over, but I'm not sure even now I grasped the whole plot.
    • 2/5
      With most crime series there is inevitably the book that looks back at an old case and Recalled To Life is the history case in the Dalziel & Pascoe series. I'm familiar with the series but this is the first I've read. It was OK and that was about it.The writing was confusing and all over the place, making it difficult to follow the story. One had to go back and read parts to understand what was happening. In the end there were many unanswered questions. So much so as to make it not an enjoyable read. The writer's love of big and obscure words was very distracting and just didn't fit some of the characters. They might have been words used by the author, but I could just not accept some characters using them.A side note: this book was an ebook, but I did not buy Recalled To Life, I bought Report For Murder Val McDermid. Even though the cover and ISBN were for Report For Murder (Lindsay Gordon, #1) the actual content of the book was Recalled To Life. So I only read this by accident, it was not my intent.
    • 3/5
      Dalziel in America... Not as weird as I expected.
    • 3/5
      Although I must say that this is your typical English cozy mystery, I mean that in the very best sense – it’s fun to read, moves along in a brisk fashion, and presents an intriguing puzzle (and of course, it all begins at an English manor in the country). I thoroughly enjoyed this light offering feature Detectives Dalziel and Pascoe and will probably seek out more in the series.
    • 3/5
      A fast moving story featuring the detective team of Dalziel and Pascoe. the very involved plot takes place on the fringes of the Keeler-Profumo scandal of the sixties. The plotting sometimes stretches credibility but it is a good romp of a read
    • 3/5
      Still continuing. Not tried of the series yet thanks to continuing original plots
    • 5/5
      Reg Hill at his supreme best.I am sure that, were one to go through this complex plot with a fine tooth comb, one could find flaws but, as a thoroughly enjoyable read, this tale of police, UK and US 'funny buggers' and the British Aristocracy, takes some beating.They say that tragedy and comedy are two faces of the same beast and that is seldom better illustrated than in a work such as this where, one minute one finds oneself sympathizing with the unfortunate Cissy Kholer, and the next laughing at 'Crocodile Daziel's' outrageous antics.Naturally, with such a cocktail of law agencies nobody gets to know the truth - except, of course, the reader and a strangely reflective Andy Daziel.