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The Burnt Bones: A Pippa Langham Mystery

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The Burnt Bones: A Pippa Langham Mystery

By: C. S. Patra
Narrated by: Denise Black
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Meet the ladies of Portman's Creamery, serving ice cream by day and solving mysteries in between. Join Irene, Chrissie, Pippa, Becca, Mary Beth, Stacey, and Winky as they take on their latest strange case.

After a boat blows up on the lake, no one can seem to figure out who was killed in the blast. DNA records proved one thing with the burnt bones, yet someone else is missing from the scene.

When another body shows up and their missing person remains missing, the ladies dig deep to find the truth behind it all. Soon, they realize they may not just be dealing with a killer but someone with a very elaborate plan involving money. And what they are looking for may not be too far from where they are.

©2018 Cithara Patra (P)2019 Cithara Patra Cosy Mystery
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This was a pretty good book. Well written and keeps you guessing. However...I think the performance of the narrator wasn't well suited to this book. Long drawn out sentences with a pretty monotone voice.

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Oh dear. It's a potentially good story plot but delivery, by both author and narrator, turns it into a children's Secret Seven type adventure rather than a murder mystery. Esentially, when a boat explodes off shore during a Summer Festival by the lake, the five women working at an ice cream store, Portman's Creamery, (which sells such delights as the flavour 'continental breakfast', a cinnamon concoction including bacon), decide that they will solve the crime, if crime there was, and treat their tame police contact like an ignorant puppy to go gather information for them in a bungled approach to finding out more. All the time telling each other how complicated this will be, is, and was. And poor tame policeman obviously looks on them as his very senior superiors in wit, knowledge, ability and station, doing their bidding and faithfully reporting back to them on all police findings, autopsy reports, and letting them listen in to police interviews whilst they stuff him full of ice cream. I know I'm a Brit and not entirely conversant with police proceedurals, but - really?

Meanwhile, narrator Denise Black further enhances the silliness of the ice cream investigative team with a child like, sing song down beat delivery (Valley girl? Again, my British background does not make me properly familiar with different U.S. accents) which becomes, quite quickly, very monotonously annoying. And slow. Turn up the speed to a 1.25 playback. Better. Is she actually being clever, I wonder, faithfully following the demands of the text? Whatever. The whole makes for a gloriously silly gaggle of girls who should be warned off from pushing their bored twitchy noses into areas that don't concern them, and police pal should be sacked for breaching confidentiality as well as being abnormally stupid.

No, I didn't like it and would certainly not recommend it, even to a child (though I think a brightish nine years old might enjoy it). My thanks, nevertheless, to the rights holder of The Burnt Bones, from whom I received a freely gifted complimentary copy, at my request, via Audiobook Boom.
It was, at least, different!

A lot more complicated than I thought.

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