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A Colourful Death

A Cornish Mystery

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A Colourful Death

By: Carola Dunn
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
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About this listen

Eleanor Trewynn is a recently retired widow who has moved to the small village of Port Mabyn in Cornwall. Neither frail nor retiring, after a lifetime of traveling the world, she's ready for an uneventful life with her dog and friends in this quiet town. Unfortunately, excitement seems to happen around her.

Her friend and neighbor, artist Nick Gresham, returns from a trip only to find several of his paintings slashed, reportedly by rival local artist Geoffrey Clarke. When Nick goes to have it out with him, with Eleanor in tow, they find Clarke's body in his studio, fatally stabbed in the back. Accused of the crime, Nick ends up in jail, while Detective Inspector Scumble and DS Megan Pencarrow, Eleanor's niece, investigate. But in A Colourful Death, the second Cornish Mystery from Carola Dunn, Eleanor isn't leaving anything to chance - she starts doing a little investigating of her own, and soon learns that Nick is far from the only one with a compelling motive for murder.

©2010 Carola Dunn (P)2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Cosy Detective Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Mystery Traditional Detectives Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Crime

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I like to listen whilst I’m crafting and found this easy to follow and listen to .

Enjoyable easy listen

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pros loved it, humour, decent story well delivered. Good characters.

cons killer was a bit obvious

another good story

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The plot is full of holes. It would have been better if this was more of a comedy.

OK, but glad it was free

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Characters are well written but story goes around in circles without much progress; every plot point seems to be gone over twice and the author is too in love with digressing at every opportunity to bring up some nostalgic, twee plot point.

Tedious

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No guns or car chases - I liked the easy pace and the details of an era when I was a young woman!!

Easy listening

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