Killer Edition

By: Lorna Barrett

Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell

Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins

Publisher's Summary

Murder's in the mix for mystery bookstore owner and amateur sleuth Tricia Miles, in the latest entry of Lorna Barrett's New York Times best-selling Booktown series.

With her assistant, Pixie, picking up more responsibility around the shop, Tricia Miles suddenly has a lot more time on her hands. Tricia decides to join the local animal-rescue board and enter the Great Stoneham Bake-Off, but neither pans out as smoothly as she'd hoped.

Balancing a bake-off that's heating up with a frosty reception from the board, Tricia stops by Joyce Whitman's romance bookstore looking for a book to get her fired up. She stumbles on something hot, but it's an argument between Joyce and her neighbor Vera Olson instead of a steamy read. When Vera turns up dead in Joyce's garden hours later, Tricia has to wonder - could Joyce be the killer? Or is the culprit still lurking in town?

One thing is for sure, someone in Stoneham is stirring up something more sinister than sweet. Tricia is determined to win the cutthroat cooking contest, but first she will have to make sure no one else is in danger of getting burned....

©2019 Penguin Random House LLC (P)2019 Tantor

Final chapter in the series? I hope so!

First, I believe I have the "credentials" to back my review as I have listened to the entire series and always looked forward to the next installment.

Sadly, and with great shock, Cassandra Campbell's narration was lackluster and very distracting from an already "so-so" slow story.

If you don't already know, Cassandra Campbell is not new to this series; she narrated a few of the earlier books which were great listens. When Karen White jumped in I hoped she could keep up the level of performance I was used to. Wow! Karen White rocked.

Back to "Killer Edition"...Immediately I couldn't figure out who was narrating. Where'd Karen go? When I finally read who the narrator was I was dumbfounded. What happened to the "old" Cassandra Campbell? There's no life in her characters! And it sounded like my narration speed was on "slow" when it was actually just normal speed.

Add to the poor narration a very drawn out story filled with, as another listener said, drinking and whiny women, I was very disappointed. I had always envisioned Tricia's character as a strong, independent, curious woman but she is definitely in a funk in this story.

With all that said, I didn't even finish it. Both the story and narration are just too slow and uninteresting. Perhaps time to end the series. Sorry Lorna.

3 of 3 people found this review helpful

missing Karen White

Love the series, have them all, but this book disappoints with the new narrator. I hate when two strong women suddenly become whiny and high pitched with a narrator change. Lots of drinking in this book too, What's up with that? How can these two hard working women drink pitchers of martinis EVERY night? And why is it "the best part" of their day? That story line bothers me. Sadly, I'll wait for the reviews and who's narrating on the next book before I purchase it. I guess all good things must come to an end, but such is life.

2 of 2 people found this review helpful

White vs Campbell

Prefer Karen White as the narrator of the Booktown Mystery series. It took me a while to distinguish which character was speaking with Cassandra Campbell's narration.

2 of 2 people found this review helpful

Please replace the narrator

I’ve listened to the whole series but this one was as exciting as watching paint dry. I had no clue which character was talking most of the time and Pixie’s character was not the same. The story was ok but it was so hard to follow with no inflection of voice between characters. If the series is to continue I will wait to see the narrator before purchasing.

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

Enjoyed the story

This is a favorite series of mine and the new book was good. I am missing the other narrator. Pixie just isn’t the same.

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

Narrator is awful

I love this book series. What happened! The new narrator for this series is deadpan and monotone. Not to be mean but I honestly could have read this book for audible at half the cost. We get these books for content and for performance. I'm letting you know respectfully you got to do better.

Great cozy, easy quilting listening at night.

I did not have a problem with the narration as many other reviewers did. I have listened to many other books since the previous one in this series so my sewing machine and I hummed along nicely to
this cozy mystery. Enjoyed!

Great Story

I loved the story but I hated the narrator. She kept mispronouncing the the name of Angelica's fictional company. Also Pixies was was all wrong. Why didn't Miss Marple make more of an appearance? Bring back the original narrator.

Narrator

This book was great like all of the others in the series. I think Karen White is a much better narrator for this series.

Why oh why did you change narrators?

Unfortunately, the New narrator, is not up to the same standard as the one for the previous 12 books in the series. Had this narrator completed any of the books 1 through 12 I'm afraid I would not be listening to book 13. If there are changes in a narrators, at least they should use the same pronunciations for names, accents of the key characters and their mannerisms throughout the entire series. This is a disappointment to what has been a very enjoyable series, including the storyline of Book 13.