Audiobook7 hours
Due to a Death
Written by Mary Kelly
Narrated by David Thorpe
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
A car speeds down a road between miles of marshes and estuary flats, its passenger a young woman named Agnes - hands bloodied, numbed with fear, her world turned upside down. Meanwhile, the news of a girl found dead on the marsh is spreading round the local area. A masterpiece of suspense, Mary Kelly's 1964 novel follows Agnes as she casts her mind back through the past few days to find the links between her husband, his friends, a mysterious stranger new to the village and a case of bloody murder. Complex and thoroughly affecting, Due to a Death was nominated for the Gold Dagger Award and showcases the author's versatility and remarkable skill for characterisation and dialogue.
Author
Mary Kelly
Mary Kelly received an MLIS from Wayne State University in 2002, and also has an MBA from Wayne State. Mary is an Adult Services Librarian at the Plymouth District Library.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I love British mysteries and am usually OK when post- WWII novels' plots get all over-wrought with uncomfortable-to-listen-to interpersonal tensions and drama - but this was more like a Tennessee Williams-esque family dysfunction exposition than a mystery - actually the biggest mystery for most of the book is that there is no mystery just one awkward interaction between shady lying characters after another. Although I guess that did keep me listening to it as I trying to figure out what the point of the whole thing was. It is also full of misogyny misanthropy and general misery. It has been a long time since I have regretted wasting my time with a book as much as I regret having spent time with this one.