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By: Nicci French
Narrated by: Clare Corbett
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Summary

Bonnie has spent the summer rehearsing with a band to play at a wedding. It was supposed to be fun, but the band members gradually find their friendships falling apart. What was meant to be fun turns deadly as lovers betray one another, passions turn murderous, and friendship itself becomes a crime. Everyone tells lies. But who is prepared to tell the truth to uncover a murderer?

©2009 Joined-Up Writing (P)2010 WF Howes Ltd Suspense Thriller & Suspense Crime
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the narrator is good, but not really convincing with male characters. thankfully the start is first person female. it's excellent nice french as usual.

great

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The story is not one of Nicci French's best - the constant time frame shifts become rather irritating after a while. But it's enthralling enough.
However, the narrator's style doesn't appeal to me, although that is a matter of personal opinion, of course. Others may love it. The narrator finds it necessary to differentiate each character by a different regional accent, so that we do a virtual tour of the British Isles in the course of the story. This is all the more incongruous as the narrator herself, who is also the main character, has a pretty standard middle-class accent, which makes one wonder why she isn't hanging out with people who sound a bit more like herself. (Unfortunately this is not apparent from the sample, which is all done in the narrator's own accent.) Annoying, too, is her insistence on assuming deep voices of one kind or the other for the men, which frankly makes most of them sound like gormless louts. It really isn't necessary: if the story is reasonably well written (as NIcci French's certainly are), it is quite possible to tell who is speaking without all this signalling from the narrator. Please, narrators, just read us the story; don't feel compelled to act it.

A good story, marred by the narrator's style

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The backwards and forwards was utterly ridiculous, it was overdone. Nicki French are great authors but not this time.

How boring it was

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Love this novel, Found it captivating, as usual we top class from one of my favourite 'authors' Adored how it was read too. A*****

Captivating

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I found the style of switching back and forth from the present to the past a little annoying. The final 2or 3 chapters helped win md round. Enjoyable.

A strange tale of murder

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