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The Cat and the Corpse in the Old Barn
- Narrated by: Charlotte Strevens
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
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Summary
Clarice Beech has two passions in life: animal rescue and Detective Inspector Rick Beech. She is devoted to the first, but she and Rick have been separated for the past six months - life without him is hard.
Clarice shares her other love, for contemporary ceramics, with the charming Lady Vita Fayrepoynt. When Vita's adopted three-legged ginger cat, Walter, disappears from Weatherby Hall, Clarice is called in to find him. Walter, snug in an old barn, is quite well. But his discovery ends with Clarice in the hospital and Rose Miller, late of the Old Vicarage, in the morgue. There is nothing natural about Rose's death....
Putting their differences aside, Clarice and Rick are drawn together to try to understand the murder that has shaken the rural Lincolnshire community. As she explores Rose's past, Clarice is pulled into a shady world of blackmail, scams and violence. And as the secrets of Weatherby Hall and the Fayrepoynt family threaten to spill out, Clarice finds friendships tested and her own life at risk.
A debut mystery set in the Lincolnshire Wolds, featuring an amateur detective who mixes sleuthing with her other great love: animal rescue. The perfect classic crime mystery for fans of Ann Granger, M. C. Beaton and Caroline Graham's Midsomer Murders.
Critic reviews
"Animal lovers will delight." (Ann Granger)
"A real treat...I loved it. Cats, dogs, murder and a credible and relatable heroine." (Barbara Nadel)
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- Jane Shepherd
- 08-03-22
Well there are animal lovers and the rest
I’m returning this book because I can’t cope with a main character who rescues cats and dogs but is married to someone who goes shooting and I suspect both eat animals. I should have been suspicious when I read on the author’s bio that she was involved with the RSPCA. As a true animal lover who with her extraordinary husband became vegetarians some 45 years ago and who has now been a vegan for some years, I have no time for people who play at being animal rescuers. My husband and I started a Rescue and Sanctuary for foxes, cats, dogs and other animals and took in old and/or difficult animals to live in the house with us. We didn’t play at it or consort with people who killed animals. This novel started out fine but within a few chapters I couldn’t stomach any more of these characters and wasn’t prepared to continue listening any longer. I fully accept that my views won’t resonate with many readers but as someone who has a library standing today at 2746 audiobooks I have more than enough to enjoy. On to the next book.
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