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Cyanide with Christie

Crime with the Classics, Book 3

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A game of charades ends in coldblooded murder in this entertaining cozy mystery - third in the Crime with the Classics series.

Having finished transforming Windy Corner, the grand Victorian mansion she inherited from her great aunt, into a writers’ retreat, widowed literature professor Emily Cavanaugh is ready to receive her first set of guests. But her careful planning is thrown into disarray by the unexpected arrival of outrageous true-crime writer, Cruella Crime, whose unpardonably rude behavior is causing great offence.

As a ferocious ice storm rages outside, the guests entertain one another with a game of charades. But their revelries are brought to a sudden halt by the discovery of a body in one of the guest bedrooms. When it transpires the victim was poisoned, Emily decides to take a leaf out of the book of her favorite detective writer, Agatha Christie, and investigate. But as she pursues her inquiries, it becomes chillingly clear that she herself may have been the intended victim …

©2018 Katherine Bolger Hyde (P)2019 Blackstone Publishers Cosy Crime Detective Fiction Mystery Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Murder Cosy Mysteries Cosy Crime Fiction

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No really! Holding back from marrying the man of one’s dreams in order to complete a book?
Giving away most of an inheritance for altruistic reasons?
The characters are rather improbable and stilted. The murder mystery is just the lesser part of the story.
No intellectual challenges here, nor sparkling prose, and the whole seems to be aimed at a very orthodox Christian readership.

Soporific

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I selected this as it was free and so had nothing to lose, and enjoy a 'closed house' mystery, but found it quite easy to guess what was coming next. was amazed that it was only from 2019 as some of the main characters attitudes seemed quite old fashioned. Perhaps I would have been better prepared if I'd heard earlier titles but these were not available. The narrator's voice was pleasant but some of the phrasing and intonation was unexpected.

pleasant but predictable

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after reading previous reviews I wasn't sure, but the story sounded interesting and as it was free I thought I wasn't losing anything by giving it a try.
I'm so glad I did, I really enjoyed it, a nice relaxing listen.
The translator in my opinion is one of the better ones. Words were clearly spoken and easy to understand.
I have downloaded the next in the series and would definitely recommend this one.

Enjoyable book and good narrator

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Overall, the story was a bit basic and predictable - not much of a twist at the end. The narration was quite robotic, like listening to Alexa or Siri, and the attempt at a Scottish accent was pretty cringeworthy!

Quite entertaining but a bit predictable

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(Spoiler alert) Entertaining like an Agatha Christie story but with many unbelievable aspects. I cannot understand how the guests at the retreat continued to eat, drink and socialise together after two members of the group were poisoned and knew that one/some of them was/were (a) murderer/s! (You see I'm trying my best not to give too much away!) Also, how does/do the murderer/s think that the outcome will not be suspicious? They couldn't possibly benefit from the murder as it would then be obvious that he/she/they were involved. Poorly thought out.

Flawed

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