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Ashram Assassin

The Paperback Sleuth

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Ashram Assassin

By: Andrew Cartmel
Narrated by: Olivia Dowd
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Humorous cozy-crime caper in which a feisty, amoral book dealer uses her unique skills to catch a murderer, desperate to hide the secrets kept by the yoga-obsessed staff and students of a West London ashram.

When a set of rare, impossible-to-find yoga books are stolen from a West London ashram, its leaders turn to Cordelia, the paperback sleuth, to recover them—a set-up that's a little awkward as they've previously barred her from yoga classes for selling marijuana to their students. But what begins as a hunt for missing paperbacks soon becomes a murder investigation as those involved with the ashram can't seem to stop dropping down dead—murdered with a whisky bottle to the head or a poisoned curry. Can Cordelia work out who the killer is and bring them to justice before they bring an end to her sleuthing for good.

©2025 Andrew Cartmel (P)2024 W. F. Howes Ltd Amateur Sleuths Cosy Crime Murder Mystery Women Sleuths Yoga Witty Physical Exercise England Student

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Not as good as Tinkler&Co but still well worth a listen. Drags on a little bit towards the end but it's worth it.

Solid effort

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This is a nice book to listen to, with the reader expressing the text in a very fine way, allowing a good picture of the story to be formed in the mind's eye. Unfortunately the end of chapter 18 has been chopped off..

a nice steady pace, easy to listen to.

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Andrew Cartmel is a brilliant author. This is a massive improvement on the first book. The humour and the mystery are outstanding.

Way better than the first.

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Better story than the first instalment and I warned to the lead character which I struggled with first time around

Better than the first

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Much better company second time around with the Paperback Detective. Tighter story , not just Cordelia and thst makes it a more thrilling story. Super narrator!!!

Much better second book

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