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Styx and Stones

Daisy Dalrymple, Book 7

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Styx and Stones

By: Carola Dunn
Narrated by: Mia Chiaromonte
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Unflappable flapper and Town & Country scribe Daisy Dalrymple searches for a killer whose vicious pen matches a murderous heart in this delightful installment of Dunn's cozy mystery series.

In the 1920s, in post - World War I England, the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple, newly engaged to Detective Inspector Alec Fletcher, is asked by her brother-in-law to discreetly investigate a series of poisoned pen letters that many of the local villagers have been receiving. When the pompous and unbearable brother of the local vicar is killed by a very large rock, dropped on his head from a great height, it seems clear to all that this campaign of gossip has escalated to murder. With the help of her husband, who'd rather she not get involved, Daisy tries to uncover who wrote the letters and who that person has driven to murder before the killer strikes again.

©1999 Carola Dunn (P)2014 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Detective Historical Mystery Traditional Detectives Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Fiction Crime Heartfelt Cosy Murder

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A rather tame and slow moving plot with too many one dimensional stereotypical characters.

Lacklustre

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Story fine apart from odd word misused- unconsciously instead of subconsciously. Reader overall ok but lots of words mispronounced.

Story ok

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An enjoyable audiobook the narrator does better on this one there are no place-names to mispronounce, but still the irritating pronunciation enquiry

Nice little murder mystery

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I’m sorry to say that although I love these stories, they would be much better read by an English reader. The mispronunciations are a jolt to the ear.

Poor narrator

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This is a slight step back from the normal plots, in that it is totally a Miss Dalrymple mystery with the directive playing second fiddle. With lots of village gossip along the way, Daisy dose it. Cracking good read/listen to Mia Chiaromonte as she takes you along the way.

Styx and Stones

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I'm very glad this is the last book read by Mia Chariamonte. she'll be great at reading kids books, but her accents and pronunciation in a British murder mystery is abysmal. I look forward to a new narrator!

Another good story marred by narration

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The narrator is so monotone. These books are actually funny when read. So many words mispronounced. No change in tone for new paragraph.

Narrator

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I found the narration frightfully upper class English but got used to it in the end. It was very clear. I listened to the full book, the story line was somewhat predictable. I don't think I would want to listen again

Styx and Stones

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I can't bear to listen to the narrator. It's personal choice I know but having listened to a few of the books the "accents" really grate on my nerves. I'm really sorry to leave a poor review

I like the stories but ...

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Not the best story, a bit slow and uninteresting, The narrator did a slightly better job or maybe it was just that there was not too many complicated English pronunciations to do although her constant misprounouncment of Fete as Fet was annoying and the old Duke of Glaw-Star returned.
They would be far better with an English Narrator.

Average

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