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Dead and Breakfast

A Merry Ghost Inn Mystery

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Dead and Breakfast

By: Kate Kingsbury
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
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About this listen

Melanie West is getting her life back on track after a messy divorce when her grandmother, Liza Harris, asks her to join her in opening a bed-and-breakfast inn. Together, Liza and Melanie purchase a purportedly haunted mansion on the Oregon coast and jump right into clearing out the cobwebs. But while attempting to remove wallpaper in an upstairs bedroom, the new B&B owners stumble upon a very real skeleton in their closet. The police suspect the skeleton is that of the wife of the previous owner of the B&B, but no one in town seems to want to say much about her.

As the inn owners try to juggle renovations with their own amateur investigations, their grand opening looms closer and closer - and a friendly ghost in their walls starts playing tricks. But it all comes crashing to a halt when a new body is found stabbed to death on the beach below the inn - the victim chillingly close in resemblance to Melanie herself. It seems someone doesn't appreciate newcomers prying into the small town's past, and now it's up to Melanie and Liza to get to the bottom of these murders to save their business - and their lives.

©2017 Kate Kingsbury (P)2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Amateur Sleuths Cosy Detective Fiction Mystery Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Haunted Feel-Good Crime Ghost Cosy Mysteries Ghost Thriller

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I enjoyed listening to this book so much so I got the next two

really enjoyable

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Story is quite decent as a cozy, but the narrator is so bad at the beginning I initially thought the company had used a computer to read it. It gets a little better as the story progresses but I still felt like I would have enjoyed the book more with a different narrator.

Cozy mystery but bad narration

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fun, pleasant and free.... whilst at home with covid.
very American but well read/ performed.

passed the time

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the accent of the grandma was truly awful, she was supposed to sound English, I've never heard an English accent like it and it actually spoilt the book for me

narration

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I’ve taken a star off both story and performance, as it’s a bit repetitive, and lacks a certain something.
The star off for performance, was mentioned in other reviews, it’s the English accent, I’m English, and I’ve never met anyone that speaks like that. If I were to put on a ‘posh’ accent, it’d be something like that.

An easy listen

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