Death in Print

St. Just Mystery, Book 5

By: G. M. Malliet

Narrated by: Lorna Bennett

University of Oxford tutor and bestselling author Jason Verdoodt has it all: acclaim, women, money…and an enemy or two. When he's found dead at the bottom of the stairs during a celebratory reception at St Rumwold's College, many wonder if seething jealousy of his literary success has turned someone's mind to murder. Detective Chief Inspector Arthur St. Just becomes inescapably drawn into an investigation that takes him down the historic streets of Oxford and into the hallowed halls of its university. Alongside his fiancée, crime-fiction writer Portia De'Ath, he uncovers several motives for murdering the celebrated but insufferable Jason—whose next novel may be a threat to many in his orbit—and no shortage of suspects who are nursing a grudge from the first novel. Has someone decided to write revenge into the plot?

©2023 G. M. Malliet (P)2023 Dreamscape Media

Terrible narrator

I could barely finish this book with such a terrible narrator. I enjoyed most of the story

Voices

I enjoy GM Malliet’s writing and storytelling on her Inspector St. Just novels. But I do not care for the narrator’s performance of male voices in the series when St Just is on a case where he is working closely with another male police officer. This was the case with this audiobook, Death in Print and the previous audiobook in the series, Death in Cornwall. When the two men are speaking with each other, it is difficult to distinguish between their voices though the non St. Just character has a different accent at least when he starts speaking initially in the exchange. Maybe the problem lies with me; because I am an American. Perhaps British listeners don’t have that issue. I envy them.

Narrator has ruined this series for me

I just can't listen to this narrator any more, which is a shame because I enjoy this series. I suffered through Death in Cornwall and thought I could make it through this one too, but it's just too awful. She reads everything in the same scratchy monotone, all the characters sound the same, and St Just sounds like a crabby old man. I'll read the rest of the series instead and hope they hire a new narrator.

Should have been warned

I have never had use for the word "simpers" but this reader simpers. Very disappointing since I like Mallet's books but I hope to return this. After four chapters she is interfering with the story so much that I might as well stop.