Cover-Up Story

Name: Cover-Up Story
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Marian Babson
ISBN: 9781504668224

Author: Marian Babson

Series: Perkins & Tate Mysteries #1

Narrator: James Langton

Unabridged: 5 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

Published: 11/03/2015

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Traditional British

Synopsis

Nashville’s Bart and the Cousins, in England on a road trip, have a chart-topping song. Unfortunately Bart also has an indictment back in the USA over an underage groupie. Keeping that hot news out of the London papers is a job for Doug Perkins of the PR firm Perkins and Tate. Doug soon finds that you can take the boy out of the country … but he’s still going to run after jailbait. And when Doug thinks the situation can’t get any worse, secrets about love and money start emerging faster than sad notes from the band’s toothless harmonica player.What’s really going on among Bart and the Cousins is a shocker, but even a spin doctor can’t cover up its deadly consequences. Instead Doug may have to turn from PR to PI … and figure out who committed murder.

About Marian Babson

Marian Babson (1929–2017) wrote more than forty novels in the traditional amateur-sleuth style, “murder most British.” In 1996 she was awarded the Crime Writers’ Association Dagger in the library category for her body of work. Her many interests—theater, cinema, art, cooking, travel, and cats—were often reflected in her novels.

About James Langton

James Langton, an Earphones Award–winning narrator, trained as an actor at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and later as a musician at the Guildhall School in London. He has worked in radio, film, and television, also appearing in theater in England and on Broadway. He is also a professional musician who led the internationally renowned Pasadena Roof Orchestra from 1996 to 2002.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Melissa

This book takes the phrase “the client is always right” way too far. The book brushes past the fact that Bart is a child molester because he’s the big star and it was unsettling.......more

Goodreads review by Joy

I've read another book by this author and was eager to read one about a cat show, when I realized it was actually part of a series and this one came before it. A little research revealed this book was the first written by the author, so I decided to read it. Blah. I had to keep reminding myself it w......more

Goodreads review by Ann-Margret

Characters were prety horrible, overlooking child molestation, child marraige, a woman getting slapped around right in front of them and a murder and 2 attempted murders being covered up. Buuuut, you knew most of them, especially the PR guys (the main lead) were all morally in the wrong from the get......more

Quotes

“Babson has a coolly amused, ironic voice…[The characters’] antics are reason enough to enjoy this fast-paced mystery.” Publishers Weekly

“There is menace in the air here, a vivid cast of characters, a sharp look behind the Nashville hokum, and a charmingly diffident narrator…Frothy, funny, and easy to take.” Kirkus Reviews