All Shall Be Well

By: Deborah Crombie

Narrated by: Michael Deehy

Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins

Publisher's summary

Perhaps it is a blessing when Jasmine Dent dies in her sleep. At last an end has come to the suffering of a body horribly ravaged by disease. It may well have been suicide; she had certainly expressed her willingness to speed the inevitable. But small inconsistencies lead her neighbor, Superintendent Duncan Kincaid, to a startling conclusion: Dent was murdered. But if not for mercy, why would someone destroy a life already doomed? As Kincaid and his appealing assistant Sergeant Gemma James sift through the dead woman's strange history, a troubling puzzle emerges: a bizarre amalgam of charity and crime--and of the blinding passions that can drive the human animal to perform cruel and inhuman acts.

©1994 Deborah Darden Crombie (P)2010 BBC Audio

Wonderful experience

I enjoyed this immensely - look forward to the rest of the series! Intriguing story - wonderful narration!

Charming

Enjoyed the story. Not a thriller but interesting problem and solution. A good who done it.

Not satisfying for me (spoiler alert 🚨 )⤵️

More irritating. However, I will admit that the story did intrigue me. I did not like the ending.

Spoiler… don’t read this before you listen to the book, but for someone that devotes their entire life to caring for people ending up in prison for murder was not my favorite ending.

I guess authors have to keep pushing the envelope. I have mixed feelings about this book

Well Done

Good even paced, interesting story, good narrator. Ending unexpected because several possibilities kept from giving final clues. Glad for the happiness that sadness brought and then gave gifts of richness (not just in $$$) to lives.

Not my Favorite in this Series

What did you like best about All Shall Be Well? What did you like least?

The narrator does a good job, and the book is well written, with good descriptions of people and places, but quite frankly I really disliked the story. There were parts that made me uncomfortable, and I didn't like the way it seemed that Kincaid was always noticing women's breasts, etc. It was thrown in often enough for it to be distracting, and he came off looking a little like a creep. I liked the first book in this series, and think I will try the next, but I should've listened to the reviews that said this title wasn't a winner.

What does Michael Deehy bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

He does a good job differentiating between the characters.

Was All Shall Be Well worth the listening time?

Honestly--no.

Any additional comments?

If you're a bit sensitive to racy material, this book will probably make you uncomfortable. It's not graphic, exactly, but it had a certain "ick" factor for me. I think it could have been handled in a better way than it was. Just my opinion, many would probably disagree but I can be a little squeamish.

Slow

This is the first that I have listened to in this series and I can't imagine choosing another. I enjoyed the writing, I enjoyed Kincaid (the main character), I really enjoyed the female police officer, in fact, I enjoyed all the characters, a lot! The brother, Jasmine, Margaret, the characters were really well developed. But nothing much happened. Even in the couple of chances for dramatic moments, like when they had to testify in court, or at the end when they figured out who did it, those moments were very underwhelming.
I have always really enjoyed non-American authors (Tana French, Herman Koch, Stieg Larsson, none British I know) and I love police dramas, but this was just too slow for me.

All Shall Be Well by Deborah Crombie

Deborah Crombie writes with detail and compassion that engages the reader. Not an ordinary mystery, it moves beyond to give insight to the human condition. Well worth the time to listen or read.

Even better than the first one.

Author has such a gift of bringing the scene to life without exaggerating the descriptions. I can see each location and hear each character clearly. It has a leisurely pace but gets to the end just in time. I enjoyed the narration.

It's Ok; quick and light

I found the characters and the senses of local color engaging, and the "mystery" of an apparent suicide that wasn't was pretty intriguing, but the solution was somewhat unsatisfying.

Good series---- I am hooked.

Somehow never read this author before. This is 2nd in series and am looking forward to plowing through them all.