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Murder of the Bride

By: Faith Martin
Narrated by: Gemma Dawson
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DI Hillary Greene is called out to attend a suspicious death at Three Oaks Farm in the picturesque village of Steeple Barton. 

The large farmhouse is filled with music and revellers, but when she steps into the farm’s cowshed, Hillary finds a dead bride. Dressed in a sumptuous white wedding gown, the young, beautiful redhead has clearly been strangled. But not everything is what it seems, and the victim turns out to be at the centre of a web of jealousy and intrigue in the close-knit village. Many of the villagers have a motive for murdering her, but they’re not giving up their secrets easily. 

Can Hillary discover the real reason for this brutal crime and cope with the spiralling revelations about her dead ex-husband?

©2017 Faith Martin (P)2018 Tantor Media Inc Crime Fiction Detective Fiction Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Village Crime Scary
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Quite good story marred by an annoying narrator whose pronunciation jarred in spots. Disappointing as the series has potential.

Let down by the narrator

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Hilary Green achieves results without resorting to feminine whiles. Clever, unsentimental. Hard slog and intuition both contribute

Sad twist in the tail

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I am enjoying this series, hence the binge listening, and it all works for me. It is nice easy listening and I am really wanting to see how the underlying story pans out. The crime itself brilliant, I just love how one paragraph changes everything and although it is a cosy type police procedural you really have to pay attention. This is not a series that you can start in the middle you really have to start at the beginning.

For me the narration really works

Enjoyable series - binging on it.

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The reader has a nice voice but a really annoying way of never pausing. Some weird pronunciation, too, of quite common words. The story is quite listenable-to but rather lacklustre and, somehow, you don't build any empathy for or dislike of any of the characters. I didn't manage to finish it and I don't really care what happens to Hillary.

Average

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Dislike--Frank of course. Like--Tommy. Sad that Tommy appears to be marrying someone he is not in love with. I appreciate his secret adoration of his boss won't and shouldn't go anywhere and he is realistic about that. I know he likes and respects Jean who totally loves him. is that enough? maybe, I hope so for both their sakes. Hilary absolutely has to go to her boss and report finding the money otherwise 100% jail.

the complete awfulness of Frank!

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