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Chapter and Curse

Cambridge Bookshop Series, Book 1

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Chapter and Curse

By: Elizabeth Penney
Narrated by: Henrietta Meire
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About this listen

In Elizabeth Penney's Chapter and Curse, Molly Kimball is used to cracking open books...but when a poetry reading ends in murder, she must use her skills to crack the case.

Librarian Molly Kimball and her mother, Nina, need a change. So when a letter arrives from Nina's Aunt Violet in Cambridge, England, requesting their help running the family bookshop, they jump at the chance.

Thomas Marlowe - Manuscripts and Folios, is one of the oldest bookshops in Cambridge, and - unfortunately - customers can tell. When Molly and Nina arrive, spring has come to Cambridge and the famed Cambridge Literary Festival is underway. Determined to bring much-needed revenue to the bookstore, Molly invites Aunt Violet's college classmate and famed poet Persephone Brightwell to hold a poetry reading in the shop. But the event ends in disaster when a guest is found dead - with Molly's great-aunt's knitting needle used as the murder weapon. While trying to clear Violet and keep the struggling shop afloat, Molly sifts through secrets past and present, untangling a web of blackmail, deceit, and murder.

©2021 Elizabeth Penney (P)2021 Tantor Cosy Mystery Crime Murder Fiction Suspense

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it was very descriptive, I felt that I was actually in Cambridge amongst accedemia and all the historical buildings and the murders themselves.
I enjoyed this book. because it was so descriptive, I thought the narrator was excellent.

Descriptive

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This is such a peaceful book, not difficult to keep up with, easy to listen to when you need company.

Love!

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I kept wondering whether the narrator was English trying to do the American accent or the other way around, not too annoying but there all the same.
As for the story so obviously written by an American as we English don’t get over excited by the son of a lord and definitely not to the extent of a photo of a girlfriend going ‘viral’ in moments, and no one bar his friends would know who he is. Also we don’t call ale ‘ale’ unless we are 80 years old. Other other than those minor irritations it’s ok if you can get past the fawning over a nobody, the story is a nice cosy mystery in a cosy setting. I won’t buy the next one though.

It’s ok

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Really enjoyed this book and looking forward to listening to more in the series. A cute, cosy and comfortable tale with interesting characters and a good story.

Cute

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I really enjoyed the idea of the story and it was certainly readable. However, sadly the reader’s ’jerky style’ delivery spoilt my enjoyment of it

A lovely little story, spoilt by the reading

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