- Paperback: 9999 pages
- Publisher: Pan; 2 edition (5 July 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0330390686
- ISBN-13: 978-0330390682
- Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 11 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 881,685 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'McGown can be relied on to produce a first-rate puzzle.' Sunday Telegraph; 'One of the most seriously underrated crime novelists around' The Times
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A gripping crime novel from the master of intricately plotted suspense novels that mercilessly tease to the very last page...
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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
A return to the brevity of Ms McGown's earlier works, 'Scene Of Crime' is a short, tightly-plotted murder mystery of the highest calibre. The epic nature of the previous 'Plots and Errors' has been cut down into a relatively straightforward whodunnit with no pretensions and less clever trickery than its predecessor. Vintage McGown - and the ending brings a tear to the eye of any reader who has followed Lloyd and Hill's love story throughout the years!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I really would have liked to give this book five stars, as I think that Jill McGown is one of the best crime writers when it comes to describing and developing her different characters, but this books simply lacks something. It is hard to say what it is, but it is just not as imaginative as the ones before and I also missed the interaction between Judy, who is about to give birth and mostly stays at home, and Lloyd. If you have never read anything by Jill McGown read one of her earlier books or the book before this one. She really is a brilliant writer, but this book just isn't as good as the other.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Finally another Jill McGown novel has appeared, and her plotting remains as tight as ever. Quite a slim novel, but not surprisingly after the last book, the mammoth 'Plots and Errors'. It is perhaps more successful than her last however in that it is a return to a classical puzzle.
Unlike the reviewers below I didn't feel the loss of Judy in her pregnancy - she does contribute to the solution, and the idea of a heavily gravid policewoman chasing round Bartonshire wouldn't have worked. And it gets the extra star because it is a puzzle based on the intricate, logical unravelling of plausible stories until the whole, shocking truth is revealed.....
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An excellent addition to the Lloyd/Hill series.
I enjoyed this latest addition to the Lloyd/Hill series very much. Jill McGown weaves a spellbinding plot around some very interesting characters in this book. Read more
Published on 25 April 2001
Not up to the usual superb McGown standard
I have to agree with the previous reviewer -having read all of Jill McGowns Lloyd and Hill mysteries - and some of her other books as well - I found this latest novel to be very... Read more
Published on 26 Mar 2001
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