Amendment of Life, Catherine Aird
Amendment of Life, Catherine Aird
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Amendment of Life

Author: Catherine Aird

Narrator: Derek Perkins

Unabridged: 4 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/28/2020

Synopsis

With adroit plotting, playful wit, and literate charm, Amendment of Life delivers the lively and engrossing novel that Aird fans have come to rely upon.Detective Chief Inspector C. D. Sloan of the Calleshire CID is used to the occasional oddity in his relatively quiet part of the English countryside. But lately things have taken a strange turn. First, in the center of a yew maze, a body is spotted by Miss Daphne Pedlinge, the elderly chatelaine of Aumerle Court. By the time the groundskeeper actually makes it to the center, he too spies the body, and it is indeed dead.Meanwhile, a few miles away, a slaughtered rabbit is left on the bishop’s doorstep in nearby Calleford, an omen as portentous as the body in the maze. Now Inspector Sloan, with the somewhat trying personage of Constable Crosby in tow, must uncover what precisely is going on as they launch an investigation with more twists and turns than the maze itself.

About Catherine Aird

Catherine Aird is the author of more than twenty crime fiction novels and several collections of short stories, most of which feature Detective Chief Inspector C. D. Sloan. She holds an honorary MA degree from the University of Kent and was made a member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. She has been awarded the CWA Golden Handcuffs award for lifetime achievement and the Diamond Dagger for an outstanding lifetime’s contribution to the genre in 2015.

About Derek Perkins

A native of the United Kingdom, Audie and AudioFile Earphones Award winner Derek Perkins's audiobook narration skills are augmented by a knowledge of three foreign languages and a facility with accents. He has narrated numerous titles in a wide range of fiction and nonfiction genres. He is a member of SAG-AFTRA.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kathy on April 05, 2021

Another very enjoyable set of mysteries, including murder, for Inspector Sloan to solve. There were many puzzling circumstances to decipher, starting with the dead body of a young mother in the middle of a maze at a country estate and including a lost goat, demonic pieces of nonsense distributed at......more

Goodreads review by Rose on March 15, 2009

I liked it. This is one in a series, that I'd been reading off and on, starting methodically with the oldest one (The Religious Body, 1966), ordering them by inter-library loan. In this one I leaped ahead, because I needed a book and it was on the shelf in front of me. I was amused to see that the t......more

Goodreads review by Joy on September 18, 2020

Inspector Sloan's department is investigating 1) a dumped body at the center of the complicated maze of a manor house, and 2) an array of satanic symbols deposited throughout a bishop's church complex. A fast-paced, clever mystery based on the psychology of the characters.......more

Goodreads review by Lark of The Bookwyrm's Hoard on January 16, 2021

3.5 stars. Review to come.......more

Goodreads review by Susan on December 02, 2009

There are strange things going on in the close of Calleford cathedral, and the Bishop is afraid it means an outbreak of black magic. But elderly Daphne Pedlinge spots an all-too-real body in the center of the maze of her historic house. Miss Pedlinge knows a dead body when she sees it (the War, you......more

Quotes

 “Series fans, especially, will appreciate this excellent procedural addition.” Library Journal

“Amendment of Life provides an intricate puzzle worthy of the always entertaining Inspector Sloan.” Publishers Weekly

“Aird’s contemporary British cozies display excellent, engaging dialogue as well as plots handled with deft, no-nonsense trajectory…Nicely crafted and very winning.” Booklist

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