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Murder on the Menu

By: Alex Coombs
Narrated by: Susan Duerden
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Chef Charlie Hunter's arrival in the beautiful Chilterns is the fulfillment of a long-held dream: to open her own restaurant in an idyllic countryside location. The Old Forge sits on the village green (complete with duck pond and flint-faced houses) and seems just the place for the high-quality cooking she wants to be known for.

But instead of rural peace and a chance to lick her wounds, Charlie finds something ugly stirring under the chocolate box perfection. When a prominent local builder is found dead in suspicious circumstances, Charlie the outsider becomes a suspect. And the only way to clear her name seems to be to find out who the real killer is.

Luckily she has allies: her student waitress, a kitchen porter making up in muscles what he lacks in brain and a briskly efficient clairvoyant. Using all the craft Charlie's learned in kitchens—discipline, timing, preparation, and grim determination—she will be as relentless in her quest to bring a murderer to justice as she is in creating the perfect meal.

©2023 Alex Coombs (P)2024 Tantor Cosy Culinary Adventures Mystery Village Fiction
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It’s hard to believe this is the same author of Hanlon books. A chef rolled into a crime fighter, boxer, the voice was all wrong for part. Possibly the worst audiobook in a long time. I liked all the Hamlin books some more than others but this. NO

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Not the usual style of story from Alex Coombs but I think with a much better narrator it would have come across a lot better than this book did.

Nice story but very poor narration

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I had liked the DC Hanalon books and very much liked the voice and accent of the narrator, in those books, Carol Bonnyman. In this book, which, I wrongly thought would be funny, was desperately spoilt by the writers fascination on writing in glorified (but un-neexed and un-wanted detail) of men's testicle, etc and bum clevage etc, together with hair colour there! Yuk. This was supposedly also voiced by a woman! I don't think so. So much strange description and unnecessary dialogue on whether someone does or doesn't ask 'what kind of cheesecake?' i.e Was it a New York cheesecake, which we are told is baked!! Not necessarily linked to storyline at all. Sadly the narrators voice was flat and uninteresting. Sorry.

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Really good story and plot but the narrator was unbelievably poor. Intonation was unbearably wrong. I find it incredible that the author would allow this narration.

Narration spoiled a good story

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I paid for it so I forced myself to listen but narrator was poor! Not a patch on other books by same author

Poor narration

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