Liars All [Hardcover]

Jo Bannister (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 6, 2009

Brodie Farrell has been asked to find some strange things in the course of her business, but this time it's personal. She's searching desperately for a cure for her baby's cancer. Attempting to keep the business afloat in her absence, Brodie's devoted friend and assistant, Daniel Hood, undertakes the hunt for a necklace stolen in a murderous robbery. Typically, his sense of fair play keeps him looking for the jewellery when a wiser man would have given up. After the first attack on him. Certainly after the second. Brodie's partner, Detective Superintendent Jack Deacon, investigates - partly as a distraction from his son's illness, partly because he begins to suspect that the hand behind these events belongs to his old adversary, Terry Walsh. But Walsh has his own agenda, and his first priority requires something that only Deacon can give him. What he offers in return presents Deacon with an agonising dilemma.

Editorial Reviews

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In the eighth Brodie Farrell mystery, Brodie, who runs a finders agency in the UK called “Looking for Something?” is called upon to find a star sapphire. This stone is tied to tragedy—it was given by a young man to his love just before they were the victims of a planned vehicular homicide. A driver ran them over, leaving the young man killed and the woman paralyzed. Before leaving, the driver grabbed the sapphire necklace; before his arrest, he fenced it. The mother of the convicted murderer wants Brodie to locate the jewels so she can return them to the young woman. This holds together a mystery that constantly threatens to spiral out of control. Brodie’s main quest is to find a cure for her infant son’s inoperable brain cancer. This tragedy seems greatly overplayed, because the devastated Brodie still finds time for the sapphire hunt (even with the help of an assistant) and a complicated love life. Only for readers interested in following the series in its entirety. --Connie Fletcher --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Review

'Bannister keeps the suspense as tight as a drum' Publishers Weekly

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 320 pages
• Publisher: Allison & Busby (July 6, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0749007869
• ISBN-13: 978-0749007867
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.4 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,121,300 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Liars All, August 12, 2010

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Jenni French - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Liars All: A Brodie Farrell Mystery (Brodie Farrell Mysteries) (Hardcover)

A tragic car accident. A missing necklace. A local mobster. An infant with an incurable disease. This book has enough twists and sub-plots to keep anyone's brain whirring. This mystery was more interesting than Laughed 'Till He Died. I enjoyed the British setting and the twists in the plot, especially toward the end. Many authors, myself included, have a wretched end game. It is very difficult to write the last chapter of a book - the problems are all solved, the characters are well-known, all the loose ends are tied up. But this book had a satisfying ending, and not one that dragged out long after the denouement, either. I will probably see if the public library has any more books by this author.

5.0 out of 5 stars one of my favorite authors, July 25, 2010

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Charlotte S. Lovejoy (Ft Myers, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Liars All: A Brodie Farrell Mystery (Brodie Farrell Mysteries) (Hardcover)

Another in the outstanding Brodie Farrell series - the characters are so intricately drawn and human - you won't be able to put it down.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Time to End This Series, June 13, 2010

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Jandsarah (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Liars All: A Brodie Farrell Mystery (Brodie Farrell Mysteries) (Hardcover)

This series seems to have run its course. The characters in the earlier books, especially Brodie Farrell, were refreshing and the plots captured the reader's interest. Sadly, the characters have become intensely self-centered and endlessly self-analytical (especially that pseudo-saintly bore Daniel Hood) while the who-done-it tension is almost nonexistent. I did finish Liars All in the hope that it somehow would improve as the pages turned but no such luck.