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This Side of Murder

Verity Kent, Book 1

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This Side of Murder

By: Anna Lee Huber
Narrated by: Jilly Bond
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About this listen

England, 1919. Verity Kent's grief over the loss of her husband pierces anew when she receives a cryptic letter, suggesting her beloved Sidney may have committed treason before his untimely death.

Lured to Umbersea Island to attend the engagement party of one of Sidney's fellow officers, Verity mingles among the men her husband once fought beside, discovering dark secrets and the shattering possibility that her husband may not have been the man she thought he was....

©2017 Anna Aycock (P)2017 W.F. Howes Ltd Cosy Detective Historical Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Fiction Marriage

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You’re not sure of the traitors until the very end .Narrator was excellent , they can make or break an audio book , often I’ve heard the whiney irritating voice and given up within minutes . Definitely not the case here .

Intriguing story

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Enjoyed the period descriptions with good accurate details. Thought the narration was excellent. Great performance.

Enjoyed main character

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The narrator spoiled this for me. Cringy male voices.
The story was interesting enough but I will not be listening to the next in the series.

The narrator spoiled this.

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Easy listening post WW1 cosy crime with plucky heroine, once again ignoring any sexist hurdles women had to leap over at the time. There’s some raised eyebrows at women drivers but that’s really as bad as it gets, let alone the idea that the heroine was a spy aged 17 in the war. It’s possible but hugely unbelievable given the demure nature of the character. Still, if you want something unchallenging to fall asleep to this makes pleasant listening. (As long as it’s free)

Cosy crime, quaint but generic & unchallenging

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A drippy, soppy story, terribly narrated. I really don't know why I bothered to finish this. The female narrator with a plumb in her mouth does a very bad job of all the male characters. The story is so weak. If this is the first of a series, it will be the last of the series for me.

Don't waste your time or money on this

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I nearly returned this book after about 5 minutes but thought, to be fair, that I should give it a bit longer. I was doing other things while listening so I ended up hearing it all. Agatha Christie-esque plot with red herrings at one moment and the blindingly obvious the next. The heroine is supposed to have been a spy but she’s not the brightest and has to keep being helped out by men. Her relationship with her narcissistic and obsessed dead husband would have friends calling for an injunction. But hey, it’s just a book.

Awful nonsense

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I’ve stopped listening to this after a few chapters and would return it if I could. It’s a very poor imitation of much better authors like Jacqueline Winspear. The story hasn’t got going at all so far, and the narration is not good, with strange renditions of the male characters in particular. None of them comes across as likeable, rather as pompous and artificial. The language veers between very pedantic early 20th C usage to modern, e.g ‘in a heartbeat’ and doesn’t ring true.
Disappointing all round

Poor addition to this genre

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