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The Tower

By: Kate London
Narrated by: Antonia Beamish
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A long-serving beat cop in the Met and a teenage girl fall to their deaths from a tower block in London's East End. Left alive on the roof are a five-year-old boy and rookie police officer Lizzie Griffiths.

Within hours Lizzie has disappeared, and DPS Officer Sarah Collins sets out to uncover the truth around the grisly deaths in an investigation that takes her into the dark heart of policing in London.

©2015 Kate London (P)2015 W F Howes Ltd Crime Fiction Mystery Police Procedural Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction Crime

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"Intelligent, atmospheric, captivating - this book draws you in and doesn't let you go. A must read." (Rosamund Lupton)
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I liked the idea of the story but for me I found it disjointed and hard to follow. I liked the characters and the narrator was good.

Good ideas but disjointed.

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This book is that rare thing - a gripping police procedural which actually makes you think. The characters are well drawn and believable and the story unfolds at a satisfying pace that kept my attention throughout.

More than the story, however, for me it was the issues behind the events that mattered. If you like black and white crime fiction avoid this book because it is relentless in portraying all sides from a balanced, if at times jaded, viewpoint. What really matters is not the events that led up to the tragic death of two people but the tensions that lie between idealism and pragmatism, old-fashioned police work and modern sensibilities (both of which may be flawed), and the whole question of how justice can be imposed in situations involving human relationships. In the end the only truly innocent character is the small boy and there is something symbolic about the fact that the denouement is the need to save him.

If you want an antidote to tabloid simplicity concerning law and justice in a multi-cultural society then I recommend this book.

Thought-Provoking Police Procedural

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I just finished this and I'm still unsure exactly how I feel. The title of Post Mortem appears to be in relation to the post mortem of the situation that Lizzie finds herself in rather than the actual post mortems that are conducted, it's basically mayhem in here. Confusion city.

The story jumps erratically from current time to past time, from Sarah's perspective to Lizzie's perspective and I often found myself adrift but I went with the flow as I usually enjoy this style of narrative but on this occasion I was not entirely happy until the end, when things finally resolve into something resembling sense BUT I am still a little annoyed that I have no idea why Lizzie really disappeared, this was explained but not to my satisfaction.

A narrative of this style would have benefited from a different narrator, as Antonia's characters all sound rather similar so this adds to the confusion in this melee of perspectives.

Overall, I'd not recommend this to my best friend but I'd not dissuade anyone from giving it a listen either, three stars from me all round I think.

Intriguing but often confusing

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What an incredible book , very well written and narrated ..I also loved the length of the book I can easily understand why this series has been adapted for TV

Absolutely fabulous

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I found this book progressed very slowly and I eventually felt quite annoyed by the number of times the same scenarios were returned to. I did not really see the purpose of the repeated description of what the character was doing when she ran off to hide - I thought that this could have given far more insight and hooked the listener more into this character’s story. I also did not see the purpose of the lengthy description of a funeral. But, having said all that, something about this book was very compelling and I do intend to read the next book in the series! Cant quite put my finger on what kept me listening, though. On the performance side, I found the narration unusually slow, so ended up listening at 1.5 speed.

Slow, repetitive, but somehow compelling

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I’ve tried to get into this for hours now but realised life’s too short and it’s not worth it. It’s confusing going back and forth and I haven’t liked any of the characters

Just boring to be honest

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I tried to listen to it again and again and although I went through it - it was long winded and characters were not relatable.

Boring - could not get into it all

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