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The Secret Sauce

The Erdington Mysteries, Book 3

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By: MJ Porter
Narrated by: Matt Coles
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An incredibly gripping historical 1940s mystery with a quirky twist

From bestselling historical fiction author MJ Porter, the new gripping historical mystery set in 1940s Erdington, for fans of Helena Dixon, Emily Organ, L.B. Hathaway and Michelle Salter.

Birmingham, England, November 1944.

Chief Inspector Mason of Erdington Police Station is summoned to a suspicious death at the BB Sauce factory in Aston on a wet Monday morning in late November 1944.

Greeted by his enthusiastic sergeant, O’Rourke, Sam Mason finds himself plunged into a challenging investigation to discover how Harry Armstrong met his death in a vat containing BB Sauce – a scene that threatens to put him off BB Sauce on his bacon sandwiches for the rest of his life. Together with Sergeant O’Rourke, Mason follows a trail of seemingly unrelated events until something becomes very clear. The death of Harry Armstrong was certainly murder, and might well be connected to the tragedy unfolding at nearby RAF Fauld. While the uncertainty of war continues, Mason and O’Rourke find themselves seeking answers from the War Office and the Admiralty, as they track down the person who murdered their victim in such an unlikely way.

Join Mason and O’Rourke for the third book in the quirky, historical mystery series, as they once more attempt to solve the impossible in 1940s Erdington.

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The storyline was entertaining but the narrator spoiled it for me because he sounded pompous and used the same elderly sounding voice for characters who were supposed to be considerably younger. He couldn’t sustain a Brummie accent and his attempt at a London accent was shockingly bad. Please find better narration for this series

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