Death in the Highlands

By: Fliss Chester

Narrated by: Sofia Zervudachi

Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins

Publisher's summary

There’s a dangerous killer lurking by this loch, and only canny Cressida can track them down.

Scotland, June 1925. Socialite Cressida Fawcett has been invited to cast her interior design eye over the Stirling family’s new seat, Ayrton Castle, up in the Scottish Highlands. Thrilled to be spending the summer at the historic estate, Cressida fills her suitcase with this season’s hunting jackets–and some tartan for her little pug Ruby, of course!

But before the party is ready to tramp through the glens, shocking news puts paid to their plans. Hamish Glenkirk, former owner of Ayrton, has been found dead inside a turret room of the castle. The door was bolted from the inside, and the room is three stories up, surrounded by impenetrable stone walls. How did the murderer get in? And out?

With Detective Andrews of Scotland Yard at least a day’s journey away, Cressida knows she needs to get to the bottom of this case–and fast. There’s no end of suspects among the hunting party. Could it be the local doctor whose wife left him for a fling with the now-dead laird? Or is the gamekeeper hiding secrets under his kilt?

Just as Cressida is closing in on the truth, a blood-curdling scream echoes through the mist. Another member of the party, and one of the suspects, has been shot. With a wee dram in hand, can Cressida find the killer before the bagpipes play for another victim?

A gripping cozy mystery that fans of Agatha Christie, T.E. Kinsey, and Lee Strauss will love.

©2023 Fliss Chester (P)2023 Bookouture, an imprint of Storyfire Ltd.

Mystery Maven

Another installment of a nice cozy mystery. Good story, good narration, and good character development. Recommend and await the next audible installment.

Preferred the first narrator

This is a fun series -and it feels as though I’ve read all the cozy mysteries out there- and I really loved the first two books. But the new narrator here on the third book is a bit softer, slower, and a little less of a ‘bright young thing’. For me, the stories are a tad long and fraught for this more serious style of narration. I found myself wandering off, many, many times.

Formulaic and predictable

Slightly charming due to the time period but it’s all been done before, and better. This doesn’t feel creative. The characters aren’t particularly interesting. Hearing her sigh and talk to her dog Ruby, “Oh Rubes, what’s a girl to do in a mess like this” …. Sigh…. that unimaginative and humdrum.

Too slow

The story just sounded like a repeat of others. The narrator on this one was too slow and monotone. I turned up the speed, but it didn’t help. What little character personalities were attempted in the first two books were completely gone in this one. I really tried to finish it, but didn’t.