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Chains of Folly
- A Magdalene la Batarde Mystery, Book 4
- Narrated by: Susan Duerden
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
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Summary
That Nelda Roundheels had been murdered would have been of little interest to anyone - except that her body turned up in the bishop of Winchester's bedchamber with a letter to the bishop, from the king's most important enemy, rolled up in her breastband. The bishop and his knight, Sir Bellamy of Itchen, realize immediately that the purpose of putting the body in Winchester's bedchamber is to embarrass and discredit the bishop. And the reason for this attack on Winchester is his calling of a convocation to chastise the king for acting high-handedly against the bishop of Salisbury. Had the king himself ordered this outrage? Had the king's favorite, Waleran de Meulan, ordered it? Unfortunately the answer is not so simple to find; there are many other noblemen who want the king's favor and might attack Winchester to get it.
To save Winchester's reputation it is urgently necessary to discover who killed the woman and who placed her in Winchester's bedchamber. Bell, to his mingled joy and distress, is ordered to ask Magdalene la Batarde, whoremistress of the Old Priory Guesthouse, once his lover but now estranged, to help him solve the mystery.
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- Anonymous User
- 09-01-24
recommended
enjoyed every book in the series and hope there will be many more to follow 😄
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- Kindle Customer
- 14-05-16
4th book unfortunately spoiled the series.
Good story. Terrible narrator. The narrator spoiled the book with the way the speech interpreted.
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- Samantha Rowley
- 18-08-24
Oh what a shame.
I loved the first two books, both the stories and the narrator were excellent.
I am very annoyed that the third book is not available and horrified that narrator for this book sounds like a news reader and her pronunciation is diabolical. The ends of her sentences are so irritating I don't think I can listen to the whole book.
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- Cilla Wood-Smith
- 13-03-22
Terrible Narrative, Spoils this Book
This was to be my third book in the series, and i could not finish it as the Narrator was terrible . Totally spoiled this book , so annoyed.
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- Mr Jonathan Davies
- 13-01-22
conpusive reading
got through this book on two days, brilliant as are the other books.makes doing boring jobs in the garden a breeze.
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- Miss B
- 11-03-23
Endured the narration for the story
The story was ok, set back in London with the familiar characters, but the narrator was terrible. The text sounded very robotic, the female characters like whiny children, and the men just shouty. The final showdown was very hard to listen to because of the way it was narrated
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- anruaig
- 13-10-23
Good story ruined by the narration
I had to stop listening from time to time because the narrator’s voice grated on my nerves. Most of the female characters were reduced to squeaking whining creatures! Very disappointing.
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- Peter Reynolds
- 20-10-22
'shame' maybe, but still a good story.
it is disappointing having a different narrator after growing comfortable with the way the previous narrator portrayed the various characters. but the story is still just as good and after a while I acclimatised to the new portrayal of the characters.
Although they were very breathy and had an annoying upward incantation and the end of almost every sentence, which seems to be a new way of talking these days.
But overall another very good and easy to listen to story.
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- Nahid hajialikhani
- 24-02-22
Poor narrator
I don't understand why they changed the narrator! I did enjoy the previous books, both the story and performance, but this narrator destroyed the last one.
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- Kindle Customer
- 18-03-22
Voice not suited at all to the story!
I listened to the first two books and enjoyed them very much but this book ha d a change of narrator and its awful to listen to and spoils the flow.
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