- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Pan; 2 edition (9 Feb 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0330355724
- ISBN-13: 978-0330355728
- Product Dimensions: 17.5 x 11.2 x 4.1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 720,076 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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There's nothing cute or coy about the relationship between Jill McGown's two high-ranking British police officers--Detective Chief Inspector Lloyd(whose first name has never been mentioned) and Detective Inspector Judy Hill of the (fictional) Bartonshire cop shop. They have been together for many years, and still maintain separate residences. She is smart and ambitious, determined to succeed on her own, even though her present unplanned pregnancy might slow things down; he is supportive, but secretly wishes for a more old-fashioned kind of relationship. They know each other well: she tolerates his smugness and flair for dramatic effect; he appreciates her cool logic and occasionally brilliant insights. Together, Lloyd and Hill make up one of the most interesting and believable detecting duos in current crime fiction--the kind of people you can actually imagine having over for dinner.
In Plots and Errors, McGown uses that hard-earned believability to anchor a complicated story as full of plot twists and false leads as any Agatha Christie play. (She even constructs it like a play, with acts and scenes set off by appropriate quotes from Hamlet).
The book opens with the suspicious suicide of two middle-aged private detectives, Andy and Kathy Cope. Then, a short time later, their only client, a member of the wealthy (and dysfunctional) Esterbrook family, is found murdered. It seems all the deaths are somehow connected. As we shuttle between the Esterbrook family estate in Bartonshire and a yacht anchored in Cornwall, we rely on the solid comfort of Lloyd and Hill to help us achieve closure. --Dick Adler --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Jill McGown is renowned for her intricately plotted and complex mysteries - with twists and turns at every page.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A mammoth tome from Ms McGown - nearly double the length of some of her earlier Lloyd and Hill works - houses one of her most complex murder mysteries to date. As ever, it's emninently readable, with excellently-drawn characters and enough twists and turns to keep you guessing right until the end - but for once there are perhaps too many twists, and by the time of the third or fourth theorised 'solution', you begin to feel like you're watching a horror film where the murderer comes back from the dead yet again - there are just too many shocks! Nevertheless, Jill McGown couldn't write a bad book if she tried, and this is a worthy addition to the Lloyd and Hill canon.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Jill McGown is simply unique when it comes to create characters, that could be your neighbours or friends, because they are so convincing and don't seem to be fictional at all. The two police officers who have solved a lot of crimes over the years and are also partners in private life connect the books McGown has written. The plot in this one is brilliant. There is a lot of suspense, you'll keep on guessing and the end will be a surprise. I would recommend it to anybody who doesn't mind staying up all night to finish a good book.
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
left egar for the next
24 Oct 1999
Format:Hardcover
Jill McGown is on the top ten list of my favorite authors and one of five whose books I'll pay full price for just to get my sweaty little palms on it that much faster. I've read reviews of Plots and Errors that critisize Ms. McGown for the fact that there is so little of the wonderful Lloyd and Hill relationship in this book and that the plot was too 'convoluted'. There is a part of me that agrees, but I think it is a problem more in the reader than in the book. I have been so looking forward to the possiblities inherent in the fact that there is a baby on the way, and all that Ms. McGown could do with this, that I was disappointed that this side plot had not moved very far forward. I believe, therefore, that any disappointment I felt with the book is based on that alone and will not be present the next time I read it. The author is a truly gifted storyteller and I highly recommed all of her works. A relationship in books, movies, and TV like that between Lloyd and Hill is rare indeed and would make me want to read about them even if there was not also a first class puzzler of a mystery included at no extra charge. I have always been particularly good at answering the question of 'who done it' and take a certain amount of pride in that fact, but I have yet to latch on to the killer in one of Ms. Mcgown books before she reveals him or her (or them) herself. I can't even claim that she cheats and doesn't let the reader in on all the clues, because she just flat out tells her readers 'who done it' and I still don't know until the end. If Ms. Mcgown should happen to read this review, I what to say thank you for many hours of pleasure and that I am looking forward to the next installment.
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
A Real Page-Turner!
14 May 2000
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
I consider myself to be a serious devotee of the British mystery and I thought that I had read every plot scenario every devised for that genre until I read the latest devised by Jill McGown for Lloyd and Hill. Although the relationship between them is given very little attention, the dysfunctional Esterbrook family makes up for that shortcoming. Just when you think you have it figured out, she throws you another curve. I read continuously for seven hours and can honestly say that I haven't read a mystery I have enjoyed this much in a long time. Don't miss it!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Couldn't put it down!
2 April 2000
Format:Hardcover
I liked the twists in this one, although she almost lost me with the plot, within a plot, within a plot, within . . . Jill McGown just keeps getting better! My one complaint is that she did not further develop the Lloyd/Judy Hill affair, overtly anyway. But the subtle developments leaves me holding my breath for more. Soon, please!
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