Till Sudden Death Do Us Part

An Ishmael Jones Mystery

By: Simon R. Green

Narrated by: Gildart Jackson

A wedding. A murder. A 200-year-old curse: Ishmael Jones is plunged into a baffling investigation when he answers an old friend’s call for help.

Although he hasn’t seen Robert Bergin for 40 years, Ishmael feels duty bound to respond when his old friend calls for help. Robert’s daughter Gillian is about to be married, and he is afraid she’ll fall prey to the ancient family curse.

Arriving in rural Yorkshire, Ishmael and his partner Penny learn that the vicar who was to perform the ceremony has been found dead in the church, hanging from his own bell rope. With no clues, no evidence, and no known motive, many locals believe the curse is responsible. Or is someone just using it as a smokescreen for murder? With the wedding due to take place the following day, Ishmael has just a few hours to uncover the truth. But his investigations are hampered by sudden flashes of memory: memories of the time before he was human. What is it Ishmael’s former self is trying to tell him?

©2019 Simon R. Green (P)2020 Blackstone Publishing

Glad I held out for this one

The stories had started getting a bit tired, same thing happening in each book. But this one was a bit more creative and I enjoyed it. Always enjoy Gildart’s performance as well

One of the more entertaining ones in the series

Sometimes the plot logistics in these books are really dumb & Ishmael Jones dose things that no human in his job would do (but then he's not actually a human is he?) & he fails to do thing sthat anyone who is a "highly trained agent" would do & yet to spite his bumbling ineptitudes at security & general investigation, he gets there in the end.
More importantly, I keep coming back to these books because now they impart a cozy feeling, a bit like Midsomer Mysteries
of the paranormal.



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Best one yet!

Love the narrator! This was the best mystery in the series! I wondered in the first third of the book why the author had this eternal conflict with the “inner beast”. It didn’t seem to fit with the story line. All the pieces fit together in a rousing end.

intresting story

I love this series the story is always good and the narrator is absolutely phenomenal

Very Preachy

This is the most preachy of the series. On the soapbox about gay rights and feminism. Some plot beats are very contrived. But the ending is surprising, and adds some interesting depth to the series arc. However, the very thing that makes it cool and is such an impactful part of the arc never shows up again in the series, so that's disappointing.

Did not make sense

I have to wonder ... Why do authors who have spent zero time in a small town, think they can, believably, write about them?
The errors would be laughable, if they didn't completely ruin and distract from the story. Small towns don't have buses and taxis? And all the main characters, including the town cop, lacked a car?

Honestly, the ineffective editors are also to blame. It's as if they all stopped trying.