• Murder Among Neighbors

  • The Kate Austen Mystery, Book 1
  • By: Jonnie Jacobs
  • Narrated by: Suzan Lynn Lorraine
  • Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
  • 3.8 out of 5 stars (30 ratings)

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Murder Among Neighbors

By: Jonnie Jacobs
Narrated by: Suzan Lynn Lorraine
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Publisher's summary

Abandoned by her husband who is traveling in Europe to "find himself", Kate Austen is left to make a life for herself and her five-year-old daughter. When her socialite neighbor, Pepper Livingston, is murdered, and the handsome detective Michael Stone turns to Kate for information about the victim, Kate's life takes an unexpected turn.This is the first book in the Kate Austen series.

©1994 print; 2012 digital Jonnie Jacobs (P)2014 Jonnie Jacobs

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Good Cozy Mystery.

Good Cozy Mystery, want to check out the next in the series. It says optional.

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It's good but ...

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This is an interesting story. I enjoyed it. But the person who read it was terrible. It was painful to listen to. She ruined an otherwise great book. I wish I had read this one and not listened to it.

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Suzan Lynn Lorraine?

Xe Sands anyone else!!!

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Great story

I really enjoy this authors work even with the different narrators the work remains the same; it draws me in. it's well written and has a little bit of everything.

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Would be so much better with a different narrator

The story's entertaining enough; somewhat cliche and dated (it's set in the early 90s) but not a bad mystery story. This narrator though is terrible. She keeps mispronouncing words and her attempts at the various characters' spoken dialogue are soooo bad; there's not a bit of voice-acting talent here. The tone and inflection she uses are just way, way off from the mood/gender/intent of whatever text she's reading. I'm disappointed that the other books in this series are all read by the same person; if it was someone else I'd listen to more but I won't be downloading anything else with this narrator.

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