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Only Murders in the Abbey

A Loch Down Abbey Mystery, Book 2

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Only Murders in the Abbey

By: Beth Cowan-Erskine
Narrated by: Emma Hindle
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'Mrs MacBain, thank god it's you.' Without another word, he grabbed her arm and pulled her into the room, locking the door behind them. Mrs MacBain turned around, clearly offended at being manhandled, but then gasped, 'Is that blood?'

Loch Down Abbey is full of guests for a Highland Ball. Including several uninvited members of the Inverkillen clan, the Abbey's former residents. Housekeeper Mrs MacBain thinks her biggest challenge will be finding suitable rooms for everyone and keeping the peace at cocktail hour.

Until the morning after the ball, when one of the guests is discovered inside the Abbey's library - as dead as a doornail.

Who would have had motive to want them dead? And how did they manage to commit their crime and escape while keeping the door locked from the inside?

With an Abbey full of suspects and secrets, it is down to Mrs MacBain to catch the killer before they strike again...

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Very stilted narrator/reader when characters are speaking; difficult to listen to. Good story but irritating to hear.

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Is a crime that I can't get a refund for a story that's truly awful it slow and the charters are unlovable and by the time I was halfway through I was hoping they would all be murdered.

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Not as good as the first in the series which I really enjoyed, but it might have been partly because I didn’t think the narrator was very good whereas I thought the narrator of the first book was excellent. The voices this narrator gave some of the characters were very odd and all over the place. I thought the story itself was too drawn out and there seemed to be a lot more Americanisms which irritated me.

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