Murder in Spite

The Doyle & Acton Mystery Series, Book 8

By: Anne Cleeland

Narrated by: Rebecca Fearn

This holiday trip to Dublin had been very hard on Doyle’s husband - although he was making a monumental effort to disguise this fact - and unless she very much missed her guess, it was all somehow connected to the grisly murder on the station house steps. That, and an African cabdriver who wore a jaunty tam-o’-shanter.

©2018 Anne Cleeland (P)2020 Anne Cleeland

It's not the best. But ok.

This book does not have the depth of intrigue with the plot twists as the previous.

Narrator changes make a difference!

Understanding that lots of factors effect who narrates the books, for someone who is 7 or 8 books into a series, has formed a mental image of characters including their voice. A great feature of the Outlander books is that narrator Davina Porter is a constant. Makes a big difference.

Pronunciation Errors

Rebecca Fern has a delightful reading voice, giving a credible change for different characters. The performance would be augmented if someone checked to assure correct pronunciation of some words in the text before official submission.

Just OK for me

The narrator was different, and I never got used to her. She pronounced some words wrong - not in the way of the character, just wrong. And it was personal. That is always presented like it's a good thing for the plot, but not for me. That means the victim, criminal, killer, stalker, stalked, whatever, is the spouse, ex, partner, co-worker, friend, neighbor, pet,.... The story was a bit convoluted, or maybe I wasn't paying attention. At one point the main character had an 'ah ha' moment and I didn't get it. I will try to next book, but I just didn't take to this story.

Disappointing reader

Festin is nowhere near as good as reader and so was disappointing. The story was pretty good and enjoyable.