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Fear in the Sunlight: Josephine Tey Series, Book 4
- Narrated by: Sandra Duncan
- Series: Josephine Tey, Book 4
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
- Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Mystery
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Summer, 1936: Writer Josephine Tey joins her friends in Portmeirion, meeting with Alfred Hitchcock to sign a film deal. Hitchcock has a few tricks planned to keep the party entertained, but things get out of hand when a Hollywood actress is brutally murdered. As fear and suspicion take over, Chief Inspector Archie Penrose becomes unsatisfied with the investigation. Several years later another horrific murder drives Penrose back to Portmeirion to uncover the shocking truth.
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- Kindle Customer
- 04-07-2020
Too complicated a time-line for me.
I love this series, and have read and listened to them. I like the concept of the fictional character based on a real one, who wrote about fictional ones. But to be honest, this book did not thrill me. The references were a bit too oblique, and the book jumps around in time too much to make for easy reading/listening. I kept getting lost. This is the last book in the series but if it wasn't I doubt I would have bought more, the characters were starting to annoy me. Josephine was indecisive and dithery. The book seemed like whole chapters had been edited out, it was well fleshed out in parts and then enormous plot twists were covered in 2 pages. Not the best book in the series but spectacularly narrated as always.
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- Ilinca
- 17-10-2013
still great
I've read the previous Tey novels and will read the new one soon, but here's the thing. I keep thinking I'm going to give each of them five stars as I read, and then, once I'm done, I can't in full honesty give them more than four.
I got to Nicola Upson by searching for Agatha Christie-like novels. Someone recommended her as similar on some forum. With Fear in the Sunlight, it all started like a Christie mystery - not the "later" part of the '50s, but the setting, the hotel, the guests, the two parties being gathered together. But what Christie does schematically, in twenty-five pages, Upson does in - well, it was an audiobook so I don't know exactly how many, but it felt like half of the book. She does it extremely well, no question: the people and circumstances come alive, and it does capture your attention.
The problem is what happens afterwards: so much energy is spent on creating the backdrop of the murders, that very little is left for the actual mystery. And the solutions to her mysteries, though not bad, are never quite as clever or plausible as everything else in the book. Other than that, they're great, and the narrator is excellent.
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- Ms Lixie
- 14-06-2014
So confusing, unlike the previous three
The way the story is set out does not work at all in an audio format. The first time they time jumped with no warning I assumed I'd accidentally fast forwarded to another chapter and spent ages trying to work out where I should be in the recording. The random jumps were very confusing and with the ending being what it was I felt the whole thing was amazingly anticlimactic. Because of this, having heard the murderer's confession I didn't realise it was actually real until the book had almost finished. It's a shame as the basis of the story is as good as the other books.
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- Harriet
- 08-01-2014
disappointing and confusing
What would have made Fear in the Sunlight: Josephine Tey Series, Book 4 better?
Fewer characters, a less confusing plot.
Has Fear in the Sunlight: Josephine Tey Series, Book 4 put you off other books in this genre?
No
What aspect of Sandra Duncan’s performance might you have changed?
It was OK but not brilliant.
What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?
Deep disappointment. I had enjoyed Nicola Upson's other Tey books but this one was so confusing I found it really hard to know what was going on. If I'd had a physical book I could have flipped back to see who was who and what was what, but with a huge cast of characters, many of whom seemed quite implausibly related, I just couldn't work it all out. What a shame.
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- Chill
- 19-08-2015
Highly disappointing
What disappointed you about Fear in the Sunlight: Josephine Tey Series, Book 4?
Unfortunately this is a series of sexual romps thinly disguised as a crime thriller. I thoroughly enjoyed the first two books in the series feeling they were well written and portraying a favourite author of mine in a unique way.
My misgivings started with book 3 as crime investigation started coming second to personal relationships, in this book the crime is barely an after thought. The plot is good but is totally ruined by the excessive relating of various sexual activities.
The whole book feels like a short story padded out by an author who seems to want her heroine to reflect her own opinions and desires.
I have the next in series to listen to but frankly I am thinking of returning it unread as I cannot bear the thought of listening to another self indulgent sex novel.
Keep the Josephine Tey series as a detective set first and foremost and write another genre for the highly personal relationships.
What will your next listen be?
Cormoran Strike
What about Sandra Duncan’s performance did you like?
Excellent narration and good distinction between characters, believable accents
What character would you cut from Fear in the Sunlight: Josephine Tey Series, Book 4?
Marta & Lydia
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- Hevpais
- 06-04-2015
Not as good as the others
I've had others of this series and enjoyed them, but I really didn't enjoy this one at all. In particular, I found it unnecessarily gory. The reader was, as always, excellent. I shall not obtain/read any others by this author.
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- Earnest
- 06-08-2014
Tortuous plot lines finally defeat listener
If this book wasn’t for you, who do you think might enjoy it more?
A patient person whose written notes and diagrams attempting to make sense of the connections/ secrets/names/ illnesses/addictions..all of these factors and more..were better drafted than mine. I am still looking at the diagram and trying to work out how the last lines of the novel are possible in the light of my diagrams, faux films, faux letters...it's too much.
Would you ever listen to anything by Nicola Upson again?
Sorry. I give up. I had persisted even though chatty, exclaiming dialogue is very tedious, especially in an audible only medium. The novelty has utterly worn off.
Would you be willing to try another one of Sandra Duncan’s performances?
No. Enough. Everything in this novel seemed to hinge on being able to follow the dialogue, as characterised by this actor because that is all the earnest listener has to try and draw some accurate conclusions. Scottish, Welsh, American, class differences...all the accents required in this production were out of this actor's range.
What character would you cut from Fear in the Sunlight: Josephine Tey Series, Book 4?
David Lascelles, Jack Spence, Mr Franks,Mr Turnbull's alter ego, Astrid Lake ( where did she go?,) Branwyn and her Mum and her caretaker, her son, her Aunt, ..my list could go on. Actually..come to think of it, perhaps I would have approved of the movie in the novel..the one made by the faux Mr Hitchcock, not the other faux movie..you see what I mean?
A yes..and jettison the porn star nun.
Any additional comments?
How difficult the balance is between providing a compelling, complex but satisfying listen with only a few too easy to spot resolutions presented by an authoritative, fine writer. This novel did not achieve a much wished for balance.
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- Charlotte
- 14-08-2020
Not confusing if you ignore chapters and dates
Despite reviews, I did not find this book confusing if you ignore chapters and dates at the start of each chapter as I think this is what’s confusing in Audio format. I thoroughly enjoyed this book! The narrator as ALWAYS was brilliant!! And her Alfred Hitchcock was SO believable!! I just love Ronnie and Lettuce and wish they featured more as they’re so funny!! For me the main star of the show is Archie and to be honest I just wish Josephine and Marta would be dropped now....they just seem to have whole chapters about them thrown into a great book for no reason and to be honest it detracts from the book rather than adds. Please Ms Upson, have the confidence in your great writing, without needing to add this whole imagined side to Miss Tey’s life that has no factual merit!!
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- Jacqui
- 08-08-2020
A bit bitty
Rather like other readers, as an audiobook it had too many bit part players and that made it rather hard too keep up. Good performance
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- The Curator
- 07-01-2020
An interesting expansion
At the start of this I harboured a hope that we might do without Josephine Tey altogether. It wasn’t to be. I didn’t mind though because for once the most self absorbed woman in literature was not the whole focus of this plot driven episode featuring Alfred Hitchcock. Even the police man stopped mooning and got to have sex for once!
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- Alex Fingleton
- 13-12-2019
Unable to open
There seems to some fault. I can’t open to read. It started out ok but I am not into the gratuitous sex scenes.
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- Flint
- 07-09-2017
Still very good but ......
I enjoyed this book and the narrator was excellent, but I found the story a bit hard to follow in places and not quite as compelling as the previous books. I like the characters very much, but some of my favourite characters didn't play a very big part in this book. I found it rather sad to know that one important character was dead, but I can't criticise the author for that it's just a case of real life getting in the way.
I would recommend this author without hesitation, I have enjoyed this series of books very much.
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