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- Cherringham. A Cosy Crime Series - Mystery Shorts 9
- Narrated by: Neil Dudgeon
- Series: Cherringham. A Cosy Crime Series - Mystery Shorts, Book 9
- Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
- Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Mystery
Summary
When Cherringham Drama Society invite a local TV celebrity to direct their Christmas show, they get more publicity than they bargained for. Someone's out to sabotage the event, and rehearsals spin into chaos. Jack and Sarah are asked to investigate and soon discover that there's a darker mystery taking place behind the scenes.
Cherringham is a serial novel à la Charles Dickens, with a new audio episode released every two weeks. Set in the sleepy English village of Cherringham, the detective series brings together an unlikely sleuthing duo: English web designer Sarah and American ex-cop Jack. Thrilling and deadly - but with a spot of tea - it's like Rosamunde Pilcher meets Inspector Barnaby.
Each of the self-contained episodes is a quick listen for the morning commute, while waiting for the doctor, or when curling up with a hot cuppa. For fans of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple series, Lilian Jackson Braun's "The Cat Who" series, Caroline Graham's "Midsomer Murders", and the American TV series "Murder She Wrote", starring Angela Lansbury.
Co-authors Neil Richards (based in the UK) and Matthew Costello (based in the US), have been writing together since the mid 90's, creating content and working on projects for the BBC, Disney Channel, Sony, ABC, Eidos, and Nintendo to name but a few. Their transatlantic collaboration has underpinned scores of TV drama scripts, computer games, radio shows, and - most recently - the successful crime fiction series Cherringham. The narrator of the audiobook, Neil Dudgeon, has been in many British television programmes including the roles of "DCI John Barnaby" in "Midsomer Murders" and "Jim Riley" in "The Life of Riley". He is also known for his film roles in "The Nativity", "Sorted" and "Son of Rambow". In 2012 Dudgeon starred as "Norman Birkett" on BBC Radio 4's Afternoon Play series written by Caroline and David Stafford.
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- Rae
- 10-08-20
Great easy listening
Lovely series of audiobooks. Neil Dudgeon is a brilliant choice for the narration of the books
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- Anonymous User
- 22-08-19
Not so cosy theatre show
I enjoyed the short story easy to listen to when time is short. Neil Dudgeon is ace at his job
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- Marily
- 05-10-19
love this series
Lovely place. Interesting people. Every story is a good mystory, that keeps you guessing. Thcharactors are solid, and with every book you know them better. They may be short, but it is Complete and Satisfying!