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The Valley of the Shadow

A Cornish Mystery

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The Valley of the Shadow

By: Carola Dunn
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
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About this listen

While out on a walk, Eleanor Trewynn, her niece Megan, and her neighbor Nick spot a young, half-drowned Indian man floating in the water. Delirious and concussed, he utters a cryptic message about his family being trapped in a cave and his mother dying. The young man, unconscious and unable to help, is whisked away to a hospital while a desperate effort is mounted to find the missing family in time.

The local police inspector presumes that they are refugees from East Africa, abandoned by the smugglers who brought them into England. While the Cornwall countryside is being scoured for the family, Eleanor herself descends into a dangerous den of smugglers in a desperate search to find the man responsible while there is still time.

©2012 Carola Dunn (P)2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Cosy Detective Mystery Traditional Detectives Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Fiction

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The performance is reasonably nuanced and pleasant to listen to.

The story is reasonably interesting though the denouement is a arbitrary, but what lets it down is being too preachy, especially having started the book with a warning that it is a period piece.

A bit preachy

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Well read, engaging storyline without the “gore”
The books link well together. now to download the next one

Another good listen

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The book was a well-read charm and captivating making you want to listen to the following chapter with antisipation.

The book was well read and captivating

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really got into this story. I am also getting used to the occasional odd pronunciation.

this story hooked me.

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A good story-line, though I second-guessed the outcome long before the amateur sleuths! Spoiled rather for me by a number of medical inaccuracies. A good editor/proof reader might have spotted this. Nevertheless, a good, well-crafted, believable plot.

A jolly, if out-dated, cosy crime

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