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Mistress of the Just Land

A Jean Brash Mystery 1

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Mistress of the Just Land

By: David Ashton
Narrated by: Siobhan Redmond, David Ashton
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The first book in a new series by the creator of Inspector McLevy.

New Year's Day - and through the misty streets of Victorian Edinburgh, an elegant female figure walks the cobblestones with a certain vengeful purpose. Jean Brash, the mistress of the Just Land, brings her cool intelligence to solving a murder, a murder that took place in her own bawdy house (the best in Edinburgh and her pride and joy). A prominent judge, strangled and left dangling, could bring her whole life to ruin, and she didn't haul herself off the streets, up through low, dirty houses of pleasure and violent vicious men, to let that come to pass.

The search for the killers will take Jean back into her own dark past as she uncovers a web of political and sexual corruption in the high reaches of the Edinburgh establishment. A young boy's death long ago is demanding justice, but as the body count increases, she has little time before a certain Inspector James McLevy comes sniffing round like a wolf on the prowl. Jean may be on the side of natural justice, but is she on the side of the law? Or will the law bring her down?

©2016 David Ashton (P)2016 John Murray Press Crime Crime Thrillers Fiction Historical Mystery Thriller & Suspense Thriller Scotland Murder Law

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Inspired! I absolutely loved this story & the narration as much as the BBC McLevy series. More please brilliant Mr. Ashton 😍

Very bit as good as the rest of McLevy

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I really enjoyed this book and the way which it fleshed out the characters from the McLevy radio I plays. I'm not sure what the nursery rhymes at the begging in of each chapter were about though. Siobhan Redmond is an excellent narrator and brings Jean Brash to life.

VERY ENJOYABLE

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Really enjoyed this if not quite the standard of the BBC full cast dramatisation.

Excellent

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Ashton paints a captivating backdrop for these stories and the addition of strong and interesting characters always makes them enjoyable. This tale though is rather too predictable and pedestrian. Where I really struggled was with the narration. Siobhan Redmond is peerless in my view, her rendition beautifully paced and warmly delivered. David Ashton sadly doesn't match up and his failed attempts to sound creepy and sinister are so overdone that they become a constant irritation. The stories are good - let the text do the work and leave out the fairground narration. Brian Cox shows the way...

Solid story, great scenes, mixed narration

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A great story line. The narrator read really well and the accent brought the story alive so it was easy to get lost in the story.

Excellent

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