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Cyanide with Christie

Crime with the Classics, Book 3

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Cyanide with Christie

By: Katherine Bolger Hyde
Narrated by: Caroline Shaffer
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A game of charades ends in coldblooded murder in this entertaining cozy mystery - third in the Crime with the Classics series.

Having finished transforming Windy Corner, the grand Victorian mansion she inherited from her great aunt, into a writers’ retreat, widowed literature professor Emily Cavanaugh is ready to receive her first set of guests. But her careful planning is thrown into disarray by the unexpected arrival of outrageous true-crime writer, Cruella Crime, whose unpardonably rude behavior is causing great offence.

As a ferocious ice storm rages outside, the guests entertain one another with a game of charades. But their revelries are brought to a sudden halt by the discovery of a body in one of the guest bedrooms. When it transpires the victim was poisoned, Emily decides to take a leaf out of the book of her favorite detective writer, Agatha Christie, and investigate. But as she pursues her inquiries, it becomes chillingly clear that she herself may have been the intended victim …

©2018 Katherine Bolger Hyde (P)2019 Blackstone Publishers Cosy Crime Detective Fiction Mystery Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Murder Cosy Mysteries Cosy Crime Fiction

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Overall, the story was a bit basic and predictable - not much of a twist at the end. The narration was quite robotic, like listening to Alexa or Siri, and the attempt at a Scottish accent was pretty cringeworthy!

Quite entertaining but a bit predictable

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it took quite a while to get into the book and the characters were very drab. however the narrator was very good

it was ok

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I couldn’t stop listening to this gripping story
All the characters were well flushed out and I felt I really knew all of them
Im immediately moving on to the next book Death with Dostoevsky and hoping it’s equally enthralling
Caroline Schaffer did an excellent narration 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

Wow!!!

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this feels like a love story with twist and turns around murder. A story beautifully told

a love story within murder

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I did like this book but it was too drawn out and took for ever to get to the murder. I know the author has to set the scene of why everybody was there but it took too long and gave away to much of the plot, this ment the plot twist and killer came as no surprise, despite the number of suspects or even intended victim . You even knew the motive rather than guessing, which is often the case. You don't need to be a fan of the classic to listen, which had put me off in the first place, expecting lots of quotes or references that means nothing to me but there is nothing like that it. I did like the characters and the plot line, just wish it had moved at a faster pace.
When Emily opens up her home as a writers retreat, her first group of customers were recommend by a friend. Unfortunately an uninvited guest and a storm has her wishing she had held off until after the christmas holidays. Especially when like an Agatha Christie novel one of guests is murder. The guest was one of the more disagreeable ones but as Emily looks for the killer questions arise who was the intended victim and will the killer strike again.
I liked the narrator. I loved the french accent she used and to be honest she was the main reason I kept listening, although the story did pick up more by the end.

Not a classic

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Easy to listen to and not a grating American accent for a change, so I was not put off from following the story.

Very enjoyable.

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Good story. Well read. As a Brit living in Scotland I found some of the ‘accents’ poor, but that didn’t affect my enjoyment of the story.

I enjoyed it

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Listened to this over a few days. It was a nice easy listen where you can just go with the flow.

Good easy listen

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No really! Holding back from marrying the man of one’s dreams in order to complete a book?
Giving away most of an inheritance for altruistic reasons?
The characters are rather improbable and stilted. The murder mystery is just the lesser part of the story.
No intellectual challenges here, nor sparkling prose, and the whole seems to be aimed at a very orthodox Christian readership.

Soporific

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Beautifully narrated by Caroline Shaffer, this book was a delight from start to finish.
Great characters and twists. Highly recommended for light listening.

A real find!

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