(This looks like the first book in the "collaboration" between father and son)
read by Martin Jarvis
9 cds (10.5 hours)
9 cds (10.5 hours)
2007, Penguin Audio
352 pgs.
Adult Murder Mystery
Finished 4/8/2014
Goodreads
Rating: 3.78
My Rating: 2.5 It was okay and went very quickly
PBS
Setting: Contemporary Newcastle/Cambridge and London, England
My
comments: 2.5 - It was definitely okay, one of my three problems with it - and the biggest - was the reader. I think the protagonist, Max, was supposed to be a young man, not yet thirty. However, the reader made him sound a great deal older, and sort of stuffy. I think if I could have "felt" that Max was under 30 I would have enjoyed the book more. I really enjoyed the beginning and all the nitty-gritties of running a restaurant. The mystery was compelling, but the reasons behind the hi-jinx were not plausible. And the fast-and-furious loved story between Max and Caroline made both of them look desperate. I found it really hard to believe. Oh well. On to the next!
Goodreads Review: Max Moreton is a rising culinary star and his Newmarket restaurant, The Hay Net, has brought acclaim. But two disasters fall. Food poisoning fells banquet attendees, and a bomb explodes the private boxes at a race, killing guests and employees.
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