Devil's Breath

By: G. M. Malliet

Narrated by: Michael Page

When the body of the glamorous film star Margot Browne washes ashore, Max's former colleague, Patrice Logan, requests his help. It's a perfect closed-circle murder: Margot must have been killed by one of the actors, stylists, scriptwriters, or second-tier royalty aboard the yacht. Patrice suspects the yacht's owner, a playboy film director she's been keeping tabs on for smuggling, but Max isn't so sure. During his investigation, Max uncovers secrets about the star's life that make him wonder if Margot was killed to help keep her lurid past in the past. As Max continues his investigation, though, he uncovers a host of motives, and it seems that Margot wasn't the only person onboard with a secret to keep.

©2017 G. M. Malliet (P)2017 Dreamscape Media, LLC

Weakest book of the series

Too much talking and very little action. The reader struggled with the American accents. It made no sense that MI5 was investigating the murder nor that Max had to be the one to investigate. Hopefully the next one will be better.

Really enjoyed this book

Interesting plot, interesting characters, setting was different and added a lot to the presentation.

great

I rather liked this book. definitely kept my attention and the story was great.

Excellent

Yes, an absolute delight reading this series. The author is an excellent writer and barely deserves the category as Cozy Mystery lest the reader think it is fair-to-good literature.
Yet I feel an obligation to mention the mis-use of some vocabulary about adoption. Having a child legally adopted, the so-called adopted parents are now the parents. Further, the people who created the child become the birth parents. And once this event occurs we should say the child was adopted, and not be labeled as an adopted child.

One of my Malliet - Max Tudor favorites.

I love Malliet’s Max Tudor series. I’ve listened to most of them twice. Devil’s Breath has loads of the British sense of humor that is a mainstay of the Tudor books. As delicious as the laughs are Tudor & Carter. Another delightful read by Malliet.