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Mistletoe and Murder
- The Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries, Book 11
- Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
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Summary
Seething resentments, well-kept family secrets, and a savage murder set the stage for Christmas in Cornwall in this cozy holiday installment of the Daisy Dalrymple mysteries.
In December 1923, the formidable Dowager Viscountess Dalrymple has decided that for Christmas the family will all gather at Brockdene in Cornwall at the invitation of Lord Westmoor. Her daughter - Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher - is somewhat less than pleased but yields to the demands of her mother, especially as she'll be there just before the holidays working on another article for Town and Country about the estate itself. But the family gathering quickly goes awry.
Brockdene, it seems, is occupied only by the Norvilles - poor relations of Lord Westmoor - and Westmoor himself won't be joining them. So Daisy; her husband, Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard; and their family must spend their Christmas holiday trapped in an ancestral estate with a rich history of lore, ghost stories, and rumors of hidden treasure and secret passageways with a family seething with resentments, grudges, and a faintly scandalous history.
The veneer of civility that pervades the halls of Brockdene, however, begins to wear thin when long-held family secrets threaten to bubble over, and one of the Christmas guests is found savagely murdered. With few clues as to who committed the murder, and with too many motives as to why, it is once again up to Daisy to sort out the truth that lies beneath a generation of poisonous secrets.
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- Steph H
- 28-11-21
Good fun
Jolly hockysticks, spiffing and topping. Always loads of fun and I really enjoy the characters.
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- Amazon Customer
- 20-04-23
Entertaining
Better narration than earlier books. Good story with the usual characters and some other interesting ones.
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- Kindle Customer
- 28-09-23
Fantastic
As always I love the caricatures in this well written story they are so relatable, such an easy book to read as are all in this series
The performance was brilliant
All in all a book I could not put down
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- Marie B
- 27-12-22
Fun Festive easy listen
There are a very few giveaway slight mispronounciations, but they are so few and the reader is so good the producers should get her to go back and do the first 9 books which I had to give up on.
This series never fails to deliver, it is not your usual overly 'romantic' setup with a graphic bedroom scene every second chapter, you could let quite young listeners listen along with a very few provisions.
The stories are varied, fit a standard sort of format, but you cannot always see the end culprit too early.
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- Lisa
- 15-12-22
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bit of a damp squid! lot of characters Two kids and a dog on murder hunt!!
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- DAVID G ROGERS
- 25-03-22
A good story, told very well despite a few errors
The narrator's voice and accent are good for the well educated aristocratic principal character - and she voices everyone else convincingly too. But her few mispronunciations (machinations, modish, castigate, fracas) are all the more jarring because surprising.
But 5 stars overall for a good story very well told.
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- D G.
- 14-02-22
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Fist of this author
Lovely story and nice light listening.
Going to listen to them all now
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- Anonymous User
- 23-12-22
Christmas with a corpse
I found this book much better than the previous one (Daisy and Alex flying around the US): more engaging and even more believable.
British relationship degrees between cousins remain complicated for me to fully understand, but it is not essential to follow the story.
Overall I enjoyed the book and the performance, except for the older lawyer from Cornwall speaking with an unjustifiable Scottish accent.
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- Carôle
- 21-11-21
More than anything, I feel sorry for Alec
I dare say it’s not a future plot point, but Alec can’t ever catch a break! The only way that I can see that he can enjoy his time off on annual leave, is if he were to divorce Daisy and have her sent to Australia.
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- Naomi Wetzel
- 25-07-22
Easy listening
Light, easy listening! Guessed whodunnit too 😅! Good plot, and the person reading it gave good voices too
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