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  • The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder

  • The Antique Hunters, Book 1
  • By: C.L. Miller
  • Narrated by: C.L. Miller, Emilia Fox
  • Length: 11 hrs and 3 mins
  • 3.8 out of 5 stars (63 ratings)
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By: C.L. Miller
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Summary

Read by Emilia Fox and featuring an exclusive Q&A with the author, C L Miller, and the narrator.

What antique would you kill for?
Freya, it’s down to you to finish what I started. . .

Freya Lockwood has avoided the quaint English village in which she grew up for the last 20 years. That is until news arrives that Arthur Crockleford, antiques dealer and Freya’s estranged mentor, has died… and the circumstances seem suspicious.

You will uncover an invitation, I implore you to attend. . .

But when a letter from Arthur is delivered, sent just days before his death, and an ordinary pine chest concealing Arthur’s journals are revealed, Freya finds herself sucked back into a life she’d sworn to leave behind.

But beware, trust no-one. Your life depends on it. . .

Joining forces with her eccentric Aunt Carole, Arthur’s staunch best friend, Freya follows both clues and her instincts to an old manor house for an ‘antiques enthusiasts weekend’. But not is all as it seems; the antiques are bad reproductions and the guests all have something to hide.

Can Freya and Carole solve the mystery and unearth the killer before they strike again?


©2024 C L Miller (P)2024 Macmillan Publishers International Limited

Critic reviews

"What a unique and very enjoyable take on the classic whodunnit!" Jo Silva

"Irresistible, immersive and completely unputdownable, think the Antiques Roadshow meets Miss Marple with a deliciously OTT cast of characters and twist after twist after twist." Ellery Lloyd

"What a treat! A unique and compelling debut by an outstanding author... The fabulously drawn characters leapt...and drew me into this engrossing murder mystery." Kathryn Croft

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It didn’t grab me

I listen to a huge amount of audio books. Probably it was a disservice to this that I had just listened to something exceptional. And in the comparison this felt slow, and obvious and emotional and I didn’t mind if I wasn’t listening too hard when the story skipped on. In the end the story did have more of a twist than I gave it credit for but, I didn’t really care. I thought the narration was off, listening to Emilia Foz in the interview afterwards I could hear the character much more and she needed some of this lightest in her main narration. I was expecting a lot as it was presented to me by audible as a possible best seller so maybe my expectations were set too high. I feel bad being negative about it but it just wasn’t, gripping.

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It's grand..

So much potential, but it felt like just when it was getting interesting the story would jump to another plot.. I think the book editor could have done with guiding the author a bit more with the flow and storyline before letting it be published and narrated.

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Engaging and belivable

Exciting and mysterious story, engaging and funny characters. Simply a really good mysteri/murder mysteri.

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brilliant murder mystery

loved all of it. please keep writing. I'm new to audible as I have AMD and can't read anymore. audible is addictive I'm not getting anything done.

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Sometimes wanted to shake her

On the whole I enjoyed this book but every so often I wanted to shake Freya and tell her to grow up and stop whining about Cairo and her house & ex. I was so pleased when we found out what had happened there but just wished it was earlier. I loved Carol and think I shall listen to the next one!

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Accomplished first novel

Loved the story. As a fan of crime fiction and antiques, this was wonderful. Brilliantly read by Emilia Fox; I so hope she reads the next one.

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I don’t think knowing that the authors Mum suggested the antiques road show before I started the book was necessary or nice

Authors are skilled people and they should not try and be everyone else because by being ‘normal’ you take away the magic of being a writer to your listeners

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interest in antiques

totally middle class orientation. no characters of working lass background at all. But then I suppose that only upper middle class are able to afford the items detailed

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good storyline but narrator's delivery in irritating - pauses at the end of each sentence become frustrating and moments of tension are lost

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Crime with a difference

Wonderful story, great reader! Really couldn’t stop listening to
It, can’t wait for the next book

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