The Dog Sitter Detective

Dog Sitter Detective, Book 1

By: Antony Johnston

Narrated by: Nicolette McKenzie

Retired actress Guinevere 'Gwinny' Tuffel is finding life hard after inheriting her late father's run-down house and discovering she's broke. But Gwinny is delighted to be at Hayburn Stead for her best friend Tina's wedding to a handsome Italian business magnate. However, before they get the chance to declare 'till death do us part', the husband-to-be is found dead in the library and Tina is accused of his murder.

Convinced of her friend's innocence, Gwinny must uncover the real killer from a pool of larger-than-life suspects, while also suddenly finding herself looking after Tina's expensive and demanding saluki dogs...

©2023 Antony Johnston (P)2023 Soundings

Enjoyed the story but seemed a bit too long

Although the story was 7 hours, it seemed a bit too long where there were parts in the story that had too much discription and very little progress. I did have to skip a few chapters to get to some progress. Overall I did enjoy the story and how Gwinny would get her friend the soon to be retired detective to help her. I will be listening to the next book.

Doggone Good

It was a nice relaxing read Not to complicated a plot so it was easy to follow and pick up after a break

Delightful

Engaging, kept me guessing. Fun characters who I'd like to see again. Really hoping this is the first in a series

Dogs steal the show from Gwinnie

Comfy mystery. Great reading. Enough mystery that I didn't guess the ending too soon.

A nice first installment of this series.

This was an enjoyable cozy mystery with a fading aging actress in Britain with dogs. What could be better?

Superior writing

This book is too good to be in the cozy category, it really is well done. At first I was turned off by the title Dog Sitter because I do not like cozies with animals solving the mystery, etc However, I listen to several books a week and could not find anything to purchase. This book has great reviews on other sites so I bit the bullet and I am so glad I did. As a dog lover and dog trainer I can truly say the dogs are quite appropriate to the storyline and I enjoyed them thoroughly. While I did figure out who the murderer was, the clues were fair and interesting. The next book will be published early next year, I hope audible is getting ready to give us this next edition.

Absolutely Charming!

This story was well written and a delight that kept me guessing the whole time! I think it was even made better by the excellent performance of Ms McKenzie. She made Antony’s writing feel like it came from a lovely British woman’s heart felt tale. I can hardly wait for the next one!!!

A Fun Read

This was a fun book. At the beginning I thought it was quite silly how the character stumbled into the detective role. I was however able to figure out who it was fairly quickly. But I don't know why or how. So it was fun trying to figure that out. The narrator was great. She did such a great job bringing the book to life. She was enjoyable to listen to.

Wanted to love it but skipped ahead

With about 3 hours to go I had to skip to the end of the book. I wanted to know who the killer was but I didn't want to plod through every slow detail. I own over 800 audiobooks and have only done this a couple times before.