Murder In Chinatown

De: Victoria Thompson

Narrado por: Suzanne Toren

Edgar Award finalist Victoria Thompson colorfully portrays the prejudices and hardships of turn-of-the-century New York City.

Called to Chinatown to deliver a baby, midwife Sarah Brandt soon helps search for a missing girl. But nobody seems to know where she is. Has she been sold to a brothel, or has she run off with a secret love?

©2007 Victoria Thompson (P)2008 Recorded Books

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"Vividly recreates the gaslit world of Old New York." ( Publishers Weekly)

Great story ... poor narration

Frank's voice makes him gruff not at all likeable, but the story is good as usual.

Better narrator

Yes, it’s difficult to get used to a new narrator, but this one handles the tone, mood, accents, and character differences much better. However, she’s given the main characters unappealing voices, though she improves them in the next book. For example, for Malloy, it’s an odd mix of old-man smoker’s grizzle mixed with southern drawl mixed with old-time New England private eye. And for some reason, she stretches out his vowels (though he stops sounding as angry in later books, and particularly mellows out more by book 12). Sarah sounds more soft spoken than we were used to, but her voice gets better in subsequent installments as well). I found that increasing the speed makes both Frank and Sarah more tolerable. Stick with it to hear the narrator’s improvements in the next installment. The mystery was good, as usual, with plenty of suspects, twists, and history.

Much Improved Narration

I've been enjoying the titles in this series prior to this one, but the narration ALMOST drove me off - at first. However, a good story can survive a narrator who is learning the ropes, which is what the original narrator sounded like she was doing. It bothered me that there were no accents where there should have been, class distinctions/dialect between characters' voices were non-existent, it was hard to distinguish male from female characters, and ages of characters didn't show up in the voices. The narrator did learn as she went along and later books were getting better, but I doubt the Asian and other accents in this one would have been an easy task. I wish her the best, but I think Suzanne Toren is handling the characters well and the narration is MUCH improved.

Great stories! I love mysteries set in this time frame in New York City. And I am looking forward to bingeing the rest!

Voice makes or breaks a recorded book.

The story was as good as the others, but the narrator didn't work. Frank's mother was worst of all.

Narration very bad. A gravelly smokers voice.

Tries to imagine voices in stereotypical fashion. I skipped about 7 chapters to find out who did it. Unfortunately the next book has the same narrator so I will skip it.

Annoying Narration

The new narrator does a whiny voice for a few of the characters. But this story was my favorite so far. The first book that the killer wasn't completely obvious

Terrible narrator

Should have never changed narrators, this new one is awful. I may have to read the rest of the series rather then listen to her voice.

horrible narrator

the story was fine. I have listened to hundreds of audiobooks over the years and this narrator was the most horrible one I have ever heard. I almost didn't listen to the book. if she is narrating the rest of the series I will not purchase it

The narrator was god awful.

why do they have to ruin a perfectly good story. The other narrator was great. I want to continue the series but just can not stomach listening to this person. it is a shame.

This is the 9th book in the series.

This book is one of the later books in a series, but this is the first audiobook. If you haven’t read the first books I can’t imagine too many people liking this book. If this is the first book in the series that you've read then I think it would be boring to some since you wouldn't have the background of the character. If you like the other books then you’ll like this one. I enjoy her books but they aren’t for everyone. In each book it’s been very easy to determine who committed the crime long before the characters in the book figure it out. What I enjoy about the book is the interaction between the two characters. There’s no sex or language in her books, I think it’s what some people call a “cozy mystery”.