Jerusalem Inn: A Richard Jury Mystery, Book 5 Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Martha Grimes (Author), Steve West (Narrator), Simon & Schuster Audio (Publisher)

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From the rough but colorful pub that provides the novel's title, to the snowboard Gothic estate nearby, the chilly English landscape has never held more atmosphere - or thwarted romance. And Jury will never have a more mysterious Christmas.

Five Days Before Christmas - On his way to a brief holiday (he thinks) Jury meets a woman he could fall in love with. He meets her in a snow covered graveyard - not, he thinks, the best way to begin an attachment.

Four Days Before Christmas - Jury meets Father Rourke, who draws for him the semiotic square - "a structure that might simplify thought," says the priest, but Jury's thoughts need more than symbols.

Three Days Before Christmas - Melrose Plant, Jury's aristocratic and unofficial assistant, arrives at Spinney Abbey, now home to a well-known critic. Among the assembled snowbound guests he meets: Lady Assington, Beatrice Sleight, and the painter Edward Parmenger. When they all assemble in the dining room, Lady Assington announces, "I think we should have a murder."

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8 hours and 51 minutes
Author

Martha Grimes
Narrator

Steve West
Audible release date

July 30 2013
Language

English
Publisher

Simon & Schuster Audio
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B071ZRK9T8
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Unabridged
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Listening Length	8 hours and 51 minutes
Author	Martha Grimes
Narrator	Steve West
Audible.ca Release Date	July 30 2013
Publisher	Simon & Schuster Audio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B071ZRK9T8
Best Sellers Rank	#70,976 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #641 in Traditional Detective Mysteries #4,603 in British Detective Stories #4,623 in Suspense (Audible Books & Originals)

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Oldie Goldie

Great to be able to order these old but never out of style mysteries.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on September 17, 2019

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I love Marsha Grimes and now have the complete collection of Richard Jury books.

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Lemire

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Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on May 16, 2015

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One of the series of featuring Richard Jury.

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Sheryl Valentine

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Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on June 15, 2000

This was my first Martha Grimes book and I really enjoyed it. In the past I have not been a big fan of the British style mystery - yet this book had a lot of witty and clever dialoge. I thought the characters were well developed, which stimulated me to want to read her series from the beginning. If you like mysteries and are looking for something new, try Martha Grimes.

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BILL LUCENKIW

very good book

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on April 29, 2022

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Barrazza Claudine

Prix de l'ouvrage

Reviewed in France 🇫🇷 on January 2, 2014

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 24, 2014

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Jerusalem Inn by Martha Grimes: A review

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 18, 2014

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Superintendent Richard Jury of Scotland Yard seems to constantly be meeting beautiful women to whom he is instantly attracted, but the attraction never goes anywhere. The women never stick. That's true again in Jerusalem Inn, but at least this time the beautiful woman has a good reason for not pursuing a relationship. She's dead.

Jury meets the lovely Helen Minton in a snow-covered graveyard in the Newcastle village of Washington at Christmastime. He has taken days off to spend Christmas with his cousin's family in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and, delaying the inevitability of their company on a afternoon, is taking a walk in the graveyard when he comes upon Helen. She seems unwell and he walks her back to her home and makes a date to have dinner with her. But, on the appointed day, when he goes to collect her at the Old Hall museum where she works, he finds the local police already there. Helen Minton has been discovered dead.

She had a heart condition and at first it appears that her death may have been due to natural causes, but a postmortem confirms that she was poisoned.

Jury sets off through the snowbound countryside to find her only known relative, a cousin who is in a nearby village. Meanwhile, his aristocratic frequent sidekick, Melrose Plant, is already headed for that same village, along with Aunt Agatha and Vivian Rivington, one of Jury's previous "beautiful women who didn't stick." Melrose, Agatha, and Vivian are going to a Christmas house party at a famous critic's house, along with a number of writers and artists.

Tensions are apparent from the beginning among the various house partiers, but who would ever guess that those tensions would end in murder? Well, only someone reading a Martha Grimes cozy mystery perhaps.

Soon, a thoroughly disliked member of the party is found dead in the snow, having been shot, and Jury and the local constabulary, as well as Melrose Plant, seek the murderer. But was this murder somehow related to the murder of Helen Minton and why does the critic's wife seem to be fading fast? Another case of poisoning perhaps?

Well, we can be sure, of course, that Superintendent Jury will make all the necessary connections and that murder will out and justice be served. In a manner of speaking anyway.

This series is a fun and light read, not at all taxing for a hot summer day. All problems are solved and inconvenient facts are swept under the rug by the ending.

And the handsome Richard Jury who is always very attractive to the women and young girls in his cases still hasn't found a woman who'll stick.

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S. Raygor

Snookered!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 30, 2019

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I have been reading this series in order, alternating with the Jackson Brodie series which I like a lot. I was very disappointed in this book for several reasons. As another reviewer noted, there are just two many characters to keep track of. Also, the amount of focus on the game of snooker was boring to those of us who don't know the game. But the ending, where the killer is revealed was the worst ever! It's as if Grimes just plucked one of the characters out when she needed to end the book. Several people had the same motive and the one she picked was the least realistic killer. Definitely not a satisfying ending.

Stepheny Forgue Houghtlin

Too much of a good thing. All of a sudden the crime is ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 7, 2015

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A different editor might have changed the outcome of this book #6 in Martha Grimes series. It was a mishmash of characters that you can't remember how they got there or why. It's a puzzlement that all the scenes where Inspector Jury appears are successful. If the ensemble characters are on stage, you almost give up. Jury is a likable character, which saves the book as far as I'm concerned. Do you play snooker? After pages about games that are being played, you probably won't take it up. Too much of a good thing. All of a sudden the crime is solved, a character that confesses...what? why? In all this confusion, I underlined some nice pieces of writing, a great metaphor, a description, a detail. I'm willing to give Grimes another chance, but hope Jerusalem Inn is just a poor example of her work.

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