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Fear in the Sunlight: Josephine Tey Series, Book 4

By: Nicola Upson
Narrated by: Sandra Duncan
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Summer, 1936: Writer Josephine Tey joins her friends in Portmeirion, meeting with Alfred Hitchcock to sign a film deal. Hitchcock has a few tricks planned to keep the party entertained, but things get out of hand when a Hollywood actress is brutally murdered. As fear and suspicion take over, Chief Inspector Archie Penrose becomes unsatisfied with the investigation. Several years later another horrific murder drives Penrose back to Portmeirion to uncover the shocking truth.

©2012 Nicola Upson (P)2003 W F Howes Ltd Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction

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I enjoyed this book and the narrator was excellent, but I found the story a bit hard to follow in places and not quite as compelling as the previous books. I like the characters very much, but some of my favourite characters didn't play a very big part in this book. I found it rather sad to know that one important character was dead, but I can't criticise the author for that it's just a case of real life getting in the way.

I would recommend this author without hesitation, I have enjoyed this series of books very much.

Still very good but ......

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This was less of a crime novel and more of a story about the main characters this time. It was a little slow at first but was still a great read and a super ending.

Another enjoyable read.

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This was such a beautifully narrated story, yet again. Such a lovely listen. Feel quite bereft now I have finished it.

Yet another great read.

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The narration is brilliant. It was so easy to listen to despite the fact the topic is complex and at times upsetting. Nicola Upson is a very skilled at plotting but the narration is what ties these shifting eras and characters to the story.

Such a brilliant performance for Sandra Duncan!

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I've had others of this series and enjoyed them, but I really didn't enjoy this one at all. In particular, I found it unnecessarily gory. The reader was, as always, excellent. I shall not obtain/read any others by this author.

Not as good as the others

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Rather like other readers, as an audiobook it had too many bit part players and that made it rather hard too keep up. Good performance

A bit bitty

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Love these books and the characters but didn’t enjoy this one as much as the previous three. It ended abruptly and I wasn’t keen on the two time lines. Still enjoyable. And worth a listen.

Was expecting more

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The way the story is set out does not work at all in an audio format. The first time they time jumped with no warning I assumed I'd accidentally fast forwarded to another chapter and spent ages trying to work out where I should be in the recording. The random jumps were very confusing and with the ending being what it was I felt the whole thing was amazingly anticlimactic. Because of this, having heard the murderer's confession I didn't realise it was actually real until the book had almost finished. It's a shame as the basis of the story is as good as the other books.

So confusing, unlike the previous three

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Well plotted, well researched, well written
And very well read. Excellent listening and good that there are other books in the same series.

Ingenious story

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At the start of this I harboured a hope that we might do without Josephine Tey altogether. It wasn’t to be. I didn’t mind though because for once the most self absorbed woman in literature was not the whole focus of this plot driven episode featuring Alfred Hitchcock. Even the police man stopped mooning and got to have sex for once!

An interesting expansion

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