Cherringham - A Cosy Crime Series Compilation

Cherringham 7-9

By: Matthew Costello, Neil Richards

Narrated by: Neil Dudgeon

Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins

Publisher's summary

Jack's a retired ex-cop from New York, seeking the simple life in Cherringham. Sarah's a Web designer who's moved back to the village find herself. But their lives are anything but quiet as the two team up to solve Cherringham's criminal mysteries.

This compilation contains episodes 7 - 9: THE BODY IN THE LAKE, SNOWBLIND and PLAYING DEAD.

Here Jack and Sarah are called to task when the body of a dignitary turns up in a lake - with all too many suspects involved. A resident of the retirement home falls victim to the elements in one of Cherringham's worst blizzard in years - but was there something sinister at work here? And Cherringham Christmas show rehearsals spin into chaos as someone is out to sabotage the event with deadly repercussions.

Cherringham is a serial novel à la Charles Dickens, with a new mystery thriller released each month. Set in the sleepy English village of Cherringham, the detective series brings together an unlikely sleuthing duo: English web designer Sarah and American ex-cop Jack. Thrilling and deadly - but with a spot of tea - it's like Rosamunde Pilcher meets Inspector Barnaby. Each of the self-contained episodes is a quick read for the morning commute, while waiting for the doctor, or when curling up with a hot cuppa.

For fans of Agatha Christie's "Miss Marple series", Lilian Jackson Braun's "The Cat Who series", Caroline Graham's "Midsomer Murders", and the American TV series "Murder She Wrote", starring Angela Lansbury.

Co-authors Neil Richards (based in the UK) and Matthew Costello (based in the US), have been writing together since the mid 90's, creating content and working on projects for the BBC, Disney Channel, Sony, ABC, Eidos, and Nintendo to name but a few. Their transatlantic collaboration has underpinned scores of TV drama scripts, computer games, radio shows, and - most recently - the successful crime fiction series Cherringham.

©2016 Bastei Lübbe (P)2016 Lübbe Audio

Enjoyable cosy with well developed characters/plot

Would you consider the audio edition of Cherringham - A Cosy Crime Series Compilation (Cherringham 7 - 9) to be better than the print version?

I've listened to the first 9 stories and thoroughly enjoyed them all. There are more audio books, but only in German. Waiting now for the English versions.

marvelous! Loves these stories!

So glad I took the chance on Audibles. Neil Dudgeon is a great Narrator. The writers did a great job on these plays.

What a fun series!!

Each story is well written, with excellent characters and great flow. I’ve loved listening to the narration too. Just a delight!

Good fun but “American” slip a lot of Britishisms in his speech

Love the narrator, Neil Dudgeon, but a main character is a retired New York City detective who often lapses into British speak.

NO ONE IN NEW YORK would ever refer to the city as NYC. Ever.
We refer to ‘the city’ if we live there (as I did for decades) or New York.
Anyone knows that usually refers to the city, not the state.
Sweaters are not called jumpers in the US.
Elementary schools are not called primary schools.
Americans chat with not to others.
And on it goes.
Written by Brits, so no big surprise at these weird non-Americanisms but Brits sniff when American authors lapse in their novels set in Great Britain so turn about is fair play.
Dudgeon’s accent is okay but his performance overall is outstanding.

Love these shorts

I would love to see this come to Acorn, Britbox or any television show. I love these stories and of course Neil Dudgeon narrating is wonderful. Smart writing, quirky and amusing. Keep them coming.

Hoping for more!

I loved this series!!! I hope there will be more to come!!! Excellent cozy mysteries with well-developed plots and characters. Narration by Neil Dudgeon outstanding!

Just wonderful..

THE BODY IN THE LAKE

Okay, there was a murder in this one. Sarah and Jack had to figure out who killed the Mayor of a small town in France, who was trying to pull out of the “twinning” deal being put together between his town and Cherringham. Another surprise as to why he was really killed and the exciting way he was caught.

SNOWBLIND

Another good little mystery, about an old man who left a nursing home one night during a blizzard and got lost in the woods and froze to death. Of course there was more to it than that and Jack and Sarah had to find out what was going on at Broadmead Grange Nursing Home that one of their residents ended up dead and the home itself was without power when Jack and Sarah took another of the residents home.

PLAYING DEAD

Loved these 3 novellas, too. This time Sarah and Jack had to figure out who wanted to shut down the theater even before it open for the first performance. One “accident” after another, almost killing two people. And even though no one died it was still a sad ending after they got the would be killer and found out his story. I was glad that Jack and Alan, the cop, were going to try to help the bad guy, who wasn’t really so bad.

There was no romance or swearing in this compilation. Totally rated G.

As to the narration: Neil Dudgeon was, as usual, awesome. I mean, there wasn’t an emotion this man didn’t express in his reading. That best was how he laughed EVERY SINGLE TIME it was called for. And there were a lot of times either Sarah or Jack laughed. Spectacular narration.

Good stories

I love to listen to Cherringham stories. They are very well written and very entertaining. Love the entire series!

Great fun

Loved every minute of it. Exciting, never lost interest for a moment. Excellent narration. Wonderful

Better than Agatha Christie - only because it's Now and not Then

Just love Neil Dudgeon, and didn't know he did audio books. A great actor, lovely fellow. Now I'll have to look for more of his work.

These are easy stories to listen to. Not too long, so I listened before going to sleep.... rather like still having a parent around, but at my age they are long gone.

If you are from Britain, you'll be familiar with the radio stories on BBC, and these reminded me of those.

Disappointed this has just finished 'cause I was going to start some boring housework, and this would have perked me up.... NOW what am I going to do?