Irish Soda Bread Murder

By: Liz Ireland, Carlene O’Connor, Peggy Ehrhart

Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan

IRISH SODA BREAD MURDER by CARLENE O'CONNOR: There's very little time left before her wedding, but nonetheless Tara Meehan is helping out at her Uncle Johnny's salvage mill for the day. The event promises to deliver a real pot of gold until Rose's biggest rival shows up. It's up to Tara to identify the deadly baker before another victim ends up chasing the rainbow straight into a grave . .

AN IRISH RECIPE FOR MURDER by PEGGY EHRHART: To celebrate St. Patrick's Day this year, the Arborville, New Jersey, Advocate is sponsoring a soda bread–baking competition. But when a town councilman acting as a judge keels over after sampling an entry, the party atmosphere dies just as quickly. Now it's up to Bettina and her Knit and Nibble knitting club bestie, Pamela Paterson, to find the killer responsible for the murderous morsel.

MRS. CLAUS AND THE SINISTER SODA BREAD MAN by LIZ IRELAND: When April Claus arrives in Cloudberry Bay, Oregon, to check on her flooded inn, her biggest worry is to keep everyone from realizing her three companions—Jingles, Juniper, and Butterbean—are elves. But soon enough she has more serious worries—it looks like her hapless caretaker Ernie has been storing stolen goods at the inn! It's up to April to uncover the killer before she spends St. Patrick's Day in the county jail!

©2024 Kensington Publishing Corp; "Irish Soda Bread" copyright 2025 by Mary Carter; "An Irish Recipe for Murder" copyright 2025 by Peggy Ehrhart; "Mrs. Claus and the Sinister Soda Bread Man" copyright 2025 by Elizabeth Bass (P)2024 Tantor Media

I found the narration irritating.

I’ve enjoyed a number of Carlene O’Connor’s books but never performed by this person. I have found this particular narration to constantly be in the way of my enjoyment of the story. If she had simply read it, it would have been much better. When she attempts to “do voices”, ugh.

First story very good. Only the first story

Colleen O’Connor’s book was much shorter than expected. Not what I expected
Second story was slow and boring. Waay too much superfluous detail. Boring and didn’t finish. Didn’t even bother with third story. Silly and uninteresting overview

Good

Generally I enjoy the Knit & Nibble mysteries but I’m extremely sick of long descriptions of coffee (I guess they don’t know that some people really dislike the smell of

Ok but not up to par

The stories were OK. I wasn’t intrigued by them or particularly interested, but they were OK. Narration was a nightmare. The narrators accent or intonation was very unpleasant and difficult to listen to. Will avoid her in the future.