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Title: More Than Meets the Eye
Author: J. M. Gregson
Narrator: Andrew Wincott
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-01-13
Publisher: Soundings
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 7 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective
Publisher's Summary:
Dennis Cooper is one of the few full-time resident National Trust curators in England and lives with his wife in the grounds of the spectacular Westbourne Gardens, which receives thousands of visitors each year. On the face of things, Dennis lives a perfect life and has a dream job, but this idyllic setting is riven with dark secrets, and it isn't long before foul play draws Lambert and Hook into this troubled Eden.
Members Reviews:
More Than Meets The Eye
Another gripping read; elegantly penned. Will appeal especially to lovers of classic british crime novels and northern England. Highly recommended!
Murder in the Gardens
â ASIN: B009G6RDYU
More than meets the eye by JM Gregson
This was an excellent mystery. Gregson keep be reading, every spare minute I had. His characters were well conceived. They were not âbad guys.â They were people caught in a trap of circumstances. Description of the Westbourne Gardens made me what to go there and spend a holiday. All the characters are well developed. Denis Cooper was a smug know-it-all who held peopleâs working lives in his hand. I believe he felt he was so invincible that he could speak to the people in the National Trust and have workers fired. I never was certain about killed Denis. I liked the characters, even the murderer.
There appeared to be several sub-plots brewing. I would have loved to see how Gregson gave them room to grow. His minor characters were very interesting and could be a major character in another novel.
They all had reason to do it
Sissinghurst, one of the greatest of English gardens, is the inspiration for Westbourne, the very interesting setting of More Than Meets the Eye. Westbourneâs director, Dennis Cooper, loves his job, but possesses many irritating habits, such as collecting dirt on his employees, that make him less than a favorite among the staff. When Cooperâs lifeless body is found on the grounds, Inspectors Lambert and Hook encounter many likely suspects. Author Gregson provides each of them with chapters of their own, and the mystery unfolds as the chapters alternate. Rather than planting red herrings, he provides each character with very good reasons for wanting Cooper dead. The reader never becomes certain about who really did it. So, More Than Meets the Eye works well as a bona fide whodunnit, but, in this episode at least, the investigators, DSI Lambert and DI Hook, come across as rather flat. I found myself rooting more for the suspects than for the cops, and, no doubt as the author intended, felt considerable sympathy for the murderer. Letâs hope he/she is only charged with manslaughter!
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Title: More Than Meets the Eye
Author: J. M. Gregson
Narrator: Andrew Wincott
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-01-13
Publisher: Soundings
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 7 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective
Publisher's Summary:
Dennis Cooper is one of the few full-time resident National Trust curators in England and lives with his wife in the grounds of the spectacular Westbourne Gardens, which receives thousands of visitors each year. On the face of things, Dennis lives a perfect life and has a dream job, but this idyllic setting is riven with dark secrets, and it isn't long before foul play draws Lambert and Hook into this troubled Eden.
Members Reviews:
More Than Meets The Eye
Another gripping read; elegantly penned. Will appeal especially to lovers of classic british crime novels and northern England. Highly recommended!
Murder in the Gardens
â ASIN: B009G6RDYU
More than meets the eye by JM Gregson
This was an excellent mystery. Gregson keep be reading, every spare minute I had. His characters were well conceived. They were not âbad guys.â They were people caught in a trap of circumstances. Description of the Westbourne Gardens made me what to go there and spend a holiday. All the characters are well developed. Denis Cooper was a smug know-it-all who held peopleâs working lives in his hand. I believe he felt he was so invincible that he could speak to the people in the National Trust and have workers fired. I never was certain about killed Denis. I liked the characters, even the murderer.
There appeared to be several sub-plots brewing. I would have loved to see how Gregson gave them room to grow. His minor characters were very interesting and could be a major character in another novel.
They all had reason to do it
Sissinghurst, one of the greatest of English gardens, is the inspiration for Westbourne, the very interesting setting of More Than Meets the Eye. Westbourneâs director, Dennis Cooper, loves his job, but possesses many irritating habits, such as collecting dirt on his employees, that make him less than a favorite among the staff. When Cooperâs lifeless body is found on the grounds, Inspectors Lambert and Hook encounter many likely suspects. Author Gregson provides each of them with chapters of their own, and the mystery unfolds as the chapters alternate. Rather than planting red herrings, he provides each character with very good reasons for wanting Cooper dead. The reader never becomes certain about who really did it. So, More Than Meets the Eye works well as a bona fide whodunnit, but, in this episode at least, the investigators, DSI Lambert and DI Hook, come across as rather flat. I found myself rooting more for the suspects than for the cops, and, no doubt as the author intended, felt considerable sympathy for the murderer. Letâs hope he/she is only charged with manslaughter!