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Murder on the Marshes

A Tara Thorpe Mystery, Book 1

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Murder on the Marshes

By: Clare Chase
Narrated by: Lucy Brownhill
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About this listen

Do you love twisty murder mysteries? Meet Tara Thorpe. The clue to a puzzling local murder has landed right on her doorstep. Perfect for fans of Faith Martin, LJ Ross, and Joy Ellis.

As the sun rises, a wealthy young woman, Samantha Seabrook, is found drowned in the ornamental fountain of a deserted Cambridge courtyard, the only clue: an antique silver chain wound tightly around her throat.

It’s Tara Thorpe’s job to discover what happened to Miss Seabrook. But the case becomes personal when she learns that Samantha had been receiving death threats...rather like the one that landed on Tara’s doorstep the night the woman died.

Together with Detective Inspector Garstin Blake, Tara tracks the killer to the dank and dangerous fens on the outskirts of the city. But there’s something Tara can’t quite admit to Blake about her past – and it could make all the difference to whether they live...or die.

An absolutely gripping mystery that will keep you hooked until the very last word. The first in a series of pause-resisting Cambridge mysteries featuring Thorpe and Blake.

©2018 Clare Chase (P)2018 Bookouture Cosy Crime Crime Thrillers Fiction Mystery Police Procedural Thriller Thriller & Suspense Murder Suspense

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enjoyed the story immensely. Unfortunately the narration was so depressing and flat. The narrator could have done so much more to bring the characters to life.

Intriguing story

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Almost gave up early on due to narrator. Glad i persevered. Story good. Will listen to next one.

Good story, dreary narration

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brilliant book 📖 injoy listen 👂 to the book 📖 and brilliant performance and brilliant stories lines and thank you for writing the book 😎

all the book 📚 brilliant

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It was the excerpt of this story which made me choose it after two hours of trying to find the right book. But sadly the rest of it didn't match up. In places it is badly written and overall, poorly plotted. The narrator sounds like she's auditioning for a role in East Enders and her voice characterisations are executed in the same exaggerated manner. There are annoying mis-pronounciations too which carry on throughout the reading and grate on the nerves. And finally the murderer and his motivations are a damp squib. Not a book I can listen to a second time. It's going back.

Gripping excerpt

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Reasonable story, but really needs to be shortened, too slow, which made me lose concentration

Overlong

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