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The Ordeal of the Haunted Room

Chronicles of St. Mary's

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The Ordeal of the Haunted Room

By: Jodi Taylor
Narrated by: Zara Ramm
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About this listen

A Christmas ghost story - Chronicles of St Mary's style! For fans of Doctor Who and Jasper Fforde...and A Christmas Carol.

Where better for the annual festive jump than the chance to experience a real Victorian Christmas?

On the longest night of 1895, a terrible storm rages above Harewood Hall. Max, Markham and an injured Peterson are welcomed in by the Harewood family but quickly realise that the gathering is far from celebratory. For tonight marks the Ordeal of the Haunted Room.

Every Harewood heir must endure one terrifying night alone in the Haunted Room before he can inherit the family seat. Legend says that ghosts will murder anyone who isn't the true heir.

Francis Harewood's ordeal will begin at midnight and end at dawn, but it isn't long before everything goes horribly wrong....

©2020 Jodi Taylor (P)2020 Headline Publishing Group Ltd Cosy Ghosts Horror Mystery Supernatural Thriller & Suspense Haunted Scary Paranormal Winter Christmas Exciting Fiction

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Don't you just love St Mary's so much fun in the
Reading listening just love it

More historical fun

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Would be great as a play for a small theatre. Want to hear more from the author. Narrator was excellent.

Really enjoyed this story

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I can’t even begin to imagine a Christmas without a St Mary’s short story! The combined delights of Jodi’s glorious writing and Zara’s masterful reading make everything perfect, even in today’s rather strange world!

As ever, a complete joy

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Being unfamiliar with Jodi Taylor's work, I purchased this from an Audible sale and enjoyed it so much, I will happily spend future credits on more of this series. If you wish you could travel back in time to the Victorian era or be involved in an Agatha Christie-style murder mystery, this is the book for you, as it most definitely was for me!

A surprising treat!

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Unusually for me, I found the start of this short story irritatingly slow going and sadly pondered that perhaps, finally, the author had run dry. (Sacrilege upon Sacrilege. Please forgive me, ma'am. )

Fortunately it picked up the pace, excitement and mystery ensued and it ended all too quickly.

Ultimately A Wonderful Yarn as Usual

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I've adored the St Mary's Chronicles. Always fun, always well thought out and such wonderful characters.

Wonderfully written and read

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Brilliant as always and some lovely nods to previous stories.

Some lines that had me crying with laughter, especially the lap one...

Jodi as good as ever thankfully, a shining light in 2020. And Zara Ramm is always spectacular.

Excellent

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A fab little story which fits in to the whole series of these gently amusing listens.

Excellent

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A well known plot, played out by St Mary's charicatures with zeal and the usual compidence.

As usual very entertaining.

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I love this series, the stories are great and interesting. It holds your attention all the way through.
I also like the way it has a light side and doesn't take everything so seriously.

Love this series

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