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Plots and Errors (Paperback)

by Jill McGown (Author)
4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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Product details

  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Pan Books; New edition edition (9 Feb 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0330355724
  • ISBN-13: 978-0330355728
  • Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 11 x 3.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 443,169 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Amazon.co.uk Review
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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When Andrew Cope and his ex-policewoman wife Kathy, proprietors of an unsuccessful detective agency, up to their necks in debt and on the verge of losing their home, are found dead in their fume-filled car, there are few who doubt that they have simply taken the easy way out. But DCI Lloyd knew Kathy Cope, and doesn't believe she was a quitter. Besides, where did she get all the state-of-the-art office equipment? Why was her shopping put away in all the wrong places? Even her last case is a puzzle. Just why would a member of the super-wealthy Esterbrook family have employed her? When DI Judy Hill is called out to the murder of matriarch Angela Esterbrook, Lloyd's doubts appears to be vindicated; and the Copes' apparent suicide turns out to be just the curtain-raiser on a tragedy of Shakespearean proportions ..."Superior mystery fiction." - "Publisers Weekly". "Plots, counter-plots, false trails, elaborately constructed alibis, a jigsaw of a crime novel...Well worth puzzling over until the last piece falls into place." - "Yorkshire Evening Press".


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4.0 out of 5 stars Convoluted, 27 Sep 2001
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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.
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5.0 out of 5 stars simply brilliant, 21 Jun 2000
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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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