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The Mortal Sickness

Lydmouth, Book 2

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The Mortal Sickness

By: Andrew Taylor
Narrated by: Philip Franks
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From the number-one best-selling author of The Ashes of London and The Fire Court, this is the second instalment in the acclaimed Lydmouth series

When a spinster of the parish is found bludgeoned to death in St John's, and the church's most valuable possession, the Lydmouth chalice, is missing, the finger of suspicion points at the new vicar, who is already beset with problems.

The glare of the police investigation reveals shabby secrets and private griefs. Jill Francis, struggling to find her feet in her new life, stumbles into the case at the beginning. But even a journalist cannot always watch from the sidelines. Soon she is inextricably involved in the Suttons' affairs. Despite the electric antagonism between her and Inspector Richard Thornhill, she has instincts that she can't ignore.

©2012 Andrew Taylor (P)2020 Audible, Ltd Crime Thrillers Fiction Mystery Police Procedural Suspense Thriller & Suspense Thriller

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Critic reviews

"Andrew Taylor is a master story-teller." (Daily Telegraph)

"An excellent writer. He plots with care and intelligence and the solution to the mystery is satisfyingly chilling." (The Times)

"The most under-rated crime writer in Britain today" (Val McDermid)

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Mr Taylor seems to understand human behaviour and put it on paper perfectly, he conveys it in a fascinating way. The story was excellent the narrator superb. An all round very enjoyable read.

Brilliant read .

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Great narration. Enjoyable story. Second book in the series, so characters intertwining emerging, making the reader to find out what next.

Mortal Sickness

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My first Andrew Taylor listen - but I am definitely going back for more. Very well narrated too.

Recommended

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this is my second listen in the series I am enjoying them very much I do get confused with the names of the characters but love the Twist that the story always has

enjoyable

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Andrew Taylor lets us into the secret of whodunnit towards the end, which is satisfying compared to the unexpected and unfathomable plots in some stories. Period atmosphere of 1950s is a little caricatured (gloves mentioned often and hats doffed regularly) but I enjoyed the characters and the strong sense of class and place.

Post war period atmosphere makes a good crime story

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Beautiful performance by Mr Franks…..as ever. Excellent characters…..some are hard to like but such is life. Gives a great sense of the crushing and claustrophobic society at that time.

Excellent

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The pace and time of this story is quite relaxed and set in the late 40's in a much gentler world when men were gentlemen and ladies were ladies. Good storytelling from the master, Andrew Taylor and well read by Philip Franks. A very pleasant listen in the Lydmouth Crime Series. what happens next?

A Gentle who dunnit

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Great description of village goings on, really enjoyable. Likeable characters. Brilliant narration, though I’m grateful that tone has changed since then, the pomposity is unreal.

Village Life meets murder and mayhem

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I liked the people in the story, apart from the murderer! beautiffully written, well researched.really it was like time travelling.

Great ambience, good read, well narrated

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Almost from the very first paragraph of the preceding volume in Andrew Taylor's Lydmouth series,( "An Air that Kills") it was obvious that the rapidly developing love / hate relationship between Inspector Thornhill and journalist Jill Francis, both newly arrived in the town of Lydmouth, would bring nothing but trouble with an emphatically capital 'T' ... Quite apart from anything else, Thornhill is none too happily married, and has two young children.

And this second volume develops their complicated feelings each has about the other, and makes for a fantastically involving sub-plot that has the reader speculating about what will happen between these two protagonists every bit as much as we're intrigued and drawn to speculate about the crime.

As with all really good detective fiction, it's the characters, both the main protagonists and the vital supporting cast that lifts the novel, or the series, above the ordinary and makes you desperate to know more. And as always, Andrew Taylor has created a complex, irritating, intriguing and completely compelling set of characters that will almost certainly keep me coming back for more and more of the Lydmouth books.

Andrew Taylor "The Mortal Sickness"

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