• A Mourning Wedding

  • The Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries, Book 13
  • By: Carola Dunn
  • Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
  • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (1,147 ratings)

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A Mourning Wedding

By: Carola Dunn
Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
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The inimitable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher and her husband Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher seem to get a reprieve from their sleuthing duties when they are invited to the wedding of their friend, Lucy Fotheringay.

Lucy's grandfather is hosting the ceremony at his beautiful estate and so it promises to be a typical affair with hordes of gossipy aunts and other colorful, but not necessarily pleasant, relatives. Daisy meets all these characters and observes the ensuing familial fraternization with a certain kind of amusing nonchalance. That is, until Lucy's great aunt is found strangled to death in her bed. Lucy, in the meantime, has arranged to meet her betrothed in the conservatory, but when she arrives she finds him trying to revive her uncle, who has died - or has he been murdered? And just like that, a normally celebratory occasion turns suspicious. Now Daisy must sift through a throng of relatives - aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents - once wedding guests and now murder suspects. And she must find the killer quickly before another family member becomes a corpse.

©2017 Carola Dunn (P)2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

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Another great book in a great series

I continue to enjoy this series. The characters are like old friends now and I feel personally invested in each of them. Narration was once again superb. On to the next!

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Dalrymple at her best

Story was quite good. But the narrator was shrill at times in her effort to distinguish Daisy from Lucy. I found myself wincing.

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High pitched squeaky voice of narrator

This long loved series is experiencing unpleasant auditory challenges after the change over to the potentially talented narrator Lucy Rayner’s interpretations of female and children's dialogue. Lucy speaks with a very high pitched voice for female and children’s characters, higher than mini mouse squeaky, and as unpleasant to listen to as nails on a chalk board. This specific narrators high pitched voice habit, which could change under proper direction, is ruining this series, for me at least. I understand that voice pitch and tone is a personal preference, but i may have to give up on the series and return the books i have purchased ahead because i am reaching my limit for auditory pain and suffering. Sad, really very sad. Great series. Talented narrator not receiving good direction and feedback

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Daisy Does It Again

Book #13 is another entertaining entry in this series of 1920(ish) historical cozies. If you liked Jane Marple or even modern era Jessica Fletcher you will like Daisy Dalrymple. And a shoutout to narrator Lucy Rayner for the great job she does on the 15+ voices she does throughout the book. Yes some of the characters sound similar, but there are a lot of people talking at times.

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Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

Carola Dunn is one of my favorite authors. However, the current Narrator is awful! She is shrill and grating. Makes you wince. The Narrator's accent also feels contrived/overdone. I have tried three times to listen to this book and cannot get through it. I have red the regular book and like the story.

What didn’t you like about Lucy Rayner’s performance?

She is shrill and grating. Makes you wince. Her accent also feels contrived/overdone.

If this book were a movie would you go see it?

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Lamest of the series so far

Murders in a mansion. A tired genre anyway. No humor or innovation or interesting plot twists. And I doubt that 1 in 10 listeners will be able to keep track of the many superfluous characters.
SHRILL character voices. Even Daisy is speaking soprano at times. Though the voice is rich when reading exposition, ears say ouch.

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Series just keeps getting better

Strong points: the characterization of Daisy. She does not discover the bodies this time, a cliche that was beginning to strain credulity, although she is on scene. The setting of the novel is the stately home of her friend Lucy’s family, where preparations are being made for Lucy’s wedding. When two of the brides’ relatives end up dead, one an obvious murder and the other either natural causes or poisoning, Scotland Yard is called in. Daisy, who was already on the scene as a wedding guest, shows more awareness of proper police procedures this time (such as handling a doorknob with a handkerchief to avoid contaminating a crime scene with her fingerprints) as well as the need for confidentiality in an ongoing investigation. And she continues to use her gift of empathy in interviewing witnesses.

The weak links, in my opinion, are the characterizations of Lucy and Alec. Lucy was just a side character in all of the previous novels, but since this volume revolves around her wedding, she’s more at center stage here. And she comes off as an immature trust fund baby, not the independent career woman the author describes her as.

Alec, alas, sounds more like a man in his 70’s than late 30’s. The narrator needs to find another way of conveying his authority and masculine presence other than just deepening her voice. She make Alec’s frequent admonitions to Daisy not to interfere in his work come off as the scolding of a stern parent (or grandparent) to a child, not a loving husband’s mild exasperation with his wife. The age gap between the couple is only ten years, not thirty, and they’re supposed to be still in their honeymoon period. Maybe she could soften his tone of voice a little when he speaks to Daisy, and save the gruff, barking voice for suspects.

It’s not enough of an annoyance to make me give up the series. I’m looking forward to seeing Alec and Daisy develop into a Nick and Nora Charles-like power couple. The 20’s were a period of female emancipation, so maybe the attitude of Scotland Yard towards Daisy’s “interference” will evolve as well. Women police officers were introduced in a previous novel, so I have hope that Daisy will be allowed a more “official” role in future investigations.

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Intriguing!

This story keeps your attention from start to finish, with a fascinating cast of characters and a very interesting twist at the end.

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One of the best in the series

I really enjoyed this one - kind of the classic isolated house party in the country with one of the guests having to be the murderer. I didn’t guess “who done it”
Agree with some that the narrators voice for Alec isn’t my favorite but otherwise liked it a lot

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Ghastly narration

Could not finish this. Have enjoyed this series for many years, but the narrator was teeth grindingly awful. Story was fine as far as I got.

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