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Brilliant!!!
I have read nearly every Jilly Cooper novel and I was slightly upset by the unfavourable reviews. While this book is different to Riders and Polo, it is still an excellent read. It is witty, wise, and great fun. Even if it is slightly unbelievable at times, I think it is wonderful. The characters are fantastic and i hope that one day i will be able to write such an exciting novel.

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Not Jilly's best
Jilly Cooper writes her first murder mystery. Maestro conductor Roberto Rannaldini, dark anti-hero of 2 previous novels cops it while making a film. The problem is to find the killer among the myriad of enemies he has made over the years. Some old favourites from previous books number among the suspects. Rupert Campbell Black is here as is his wayward daughter Tabitha. There is the usual Cooper scenario of bonking, boozing and stories of star crossed lovers as well as many insights into the worlds of film making and classical music. The cast of characters is huge but disappointingly none of them seem to be well developed enough to love or loathe by the end of the book. Its a mystery that the heroine, Lucy Latimer, a nice dog loving make up artist ever gets anyone to fall in love with her by book's end. I love Jilly's books and would never miss out on one but this has certainly been a disappointment.

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Mediocre
I am afraid I agree with the lady who said that this was rather silly, whilst I am a massive fan of Jilly Cooper and devoured the last five (Riders, Rivals, Polo, the Man who, and Appassionata)novels with relish, I was extremely disappointed at the ludicrosity of the plot.
It starts off reasonably well, what with the Marriage of TABITHA CAMPBELL BLACK to her the son of her father's long time rival jake, ISA LOVELL, and the author depicts the relations between these and others well. There are some old favourites, such as Rupert, Ranaldinni and Taggie and Flora Seymour, but the author introduces a whole new array of characters and quite frankly, there are far, far too many to be getting to know properly.

Once the sinister air of foul play starts creeping into the plot, this is when things start getting ridiculous. I see the author's point - to keep the readers guessing as to who the murderer is - but the climax, when we finally do find out, is so ridiculous and completely unbelievable that you are left wondering what the hell that was all about....??

The "love Story" part of this book is also completely unbelievable, there is absolutely no warmth or chemistry between the two characters involved, this book is nothing like the magic that she has written before but, nevertheless, if you're on holidays and there's nothing else around, then it does while away a couple of hours.

Come on Jilly, you can do much better than that.