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Murder 101
- Narrated by: Gayle Hendrix
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
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Lively and endlessly entertaining, full of mysterious twists and turns, Maggie Barbieri's Murder 101 plunges listeners into a great story from the first sentence. Gayle Hendrix performs the story of Alison Bergeron, professor at the idyllic college on the Hudson River, St. Thomas. After finalizing her divorce and having her car stolen, detectives tell her that her car's been found complete with the body of a student in the trunk. Funnier than expected, dramatic and romantic, this is a mystery that listeners will keep coming back to.
Summary
Safely away from the chaos of Manhattan, St. Thomas, a small college on the banks of the Hudson River in the Bronx, is supposed to be tranquil, bucolic, and serene. Unfortunately, English professor Alison Bergeron has found it to be anything but. Recently divorced from a fellow professor and even more recently without a car - it was stolen - she has been hoofing it to school. One Friday evening, two NYPD homicide detectives drop by her office. The good news is that they found her beat-up Volvo; the bad news is that the body of one of the students in her Shakespeare seminar was in the trunk.
Not only are Alison's chances of getting the car back bleak, but suddenly she's the primary suspect on a list that includes, among others, the murdered student's drug-dealing boyfriend, Vince, and the girl's father's business rivals (he's head of an old Italian family . . .).
Accused of a crime that she didn't commit, Alison enlists her best friend Max's emotional support and services as an amateur sleuth. Their fumbling efforts to clear Alison's name could land her in even hotter water with Detective Bobby Crawford, the handsome investigating officer (and former altar boy) - not to mention the nuns at St. Thomas….
Maggie Barbieri's charming professor and down-to-earth detective make an unlikely but lovable team in her delightful debut mystery.
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- Jennifer
- 20-10-13
Couldn't even get past the first chapter!
What would have made Murder 101 better?
A different narrator. She was so dull AND had a speech impediment. Impossible to listen to. She had no differentiation between characters. When she DID try to make it different it just exaggerated her speech impediment. I was really excited about listening to this book and now am going to return it and buy it in hardcopy as I couldn't listen past the 1st chapter ...and i didn't even finish that!
Who was your favorite character and why?
No idea. Couldn't get past the extremely annoying narrator and her speech impediment.
How did the narrator detract from the book?
Please read above. It was so bad. So so so bad. I couldn't listen to her drone on anymore. She had terrible inflection that she used in exactly the same way for every sentence she read.
What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?
Extreme disappointment. Not in the author. In the narrator and whoever produced it.
Any additional comments?
Release it again with a different narrator. PLEASE!
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