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The Mansfield Park Murder

The Charles Maddox Mysteries, Book 1

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The Mansfield Park Murder

By: Lynn Shepherd
Narrated by: Greta Scacchi
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A Jane Austen heroine murdered. A literary villain turned hero. And an investigator between it all.

The year is 1814 when Fanny Price is found murdered in Mansfield Park. Once a rich heiress who was spoiled, condescending, and generally hated throughout the county. But her death is none-the-less haunting.

It then takes Mary Crawford, who is now as good as Fanny was bad, to team up with a thief-taker, Charles Maddox, from London to solve the brutal crime. But with dramatic confrontations comes consequences...some even deadly.

A twisted take on Mansfield Park, Shepherd brings a brilliantly entertaining novel that offers Jane Austen fans an engaging new heroine—and mystery laced in every chapter.

©2013 Lynn Shepherd (P)2013 W. F. Howes Ltd Historical Mystery
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I know the original novel well, and I particularly enjoyed the inverted plot in which the poor heroine is now rich, and the rich anti-heroine is now poor, illustrating in a very Austen-esque style the effects of wealth on behaviour. The only annoying thing is the ridiculous spoilers in the plot summary above. Whoever wrote these title details should be shot!!

Light and easy to listen to - also clever

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Well, this one is of its time - not the Jane Austen time but the zombies inserted into Jane Austen novels and P D James doing a Jane Austen murder pastiche back in the 2000s. This novel is by far superior to those (sorry PD) and what makes it a superior audio is that the great Greta Scacchi, with the unique timbre in her voice, has actually done before audio editions of classics such as Austen's Persuasion and George Eliot's Daniel Deronda and has been in a couple of classic Austen films and War and Peace on the BBC. So her voice and manner is perfect for this cos she knows the territory.

I'm now on a binge to listen to all four Lynn Shepherd's narrated by Ms Scacchi - so that's no sleep until at least Monday - once again, an adaptation would have been more listener-friendly.

Better than the PD Jane Austen pastiche

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I was curious because of the title, provocative in its connecting Mansfield Park to murder, of all things!
Sadly this just doesn’t work, the writing style, the dialogue, the plot well, what can I say- limp is the word.

Painfully maintaining the Jane Austin connection

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I feel like it's been 4 hrs already and not only has nobody died, the most riveting thing.so far, ismthat they.are putting on a play in the parlour and some of the
are mildly upset with eachother. I can see why it's in the freezer catagory

extraordinarily boring

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