Murder Go Round

Witch City Mystery Series, Book 4

By: Carol J. Perry

Narrated by: C.S.E. Cooney

Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins

Publisher's summary

Lee Barrett has agreed to attend a storage auction with Aunt Ibby - even though she suspects the forgotten rooms will yield more junk than treasure. Her skepticism vanishes once the two win a bid on an overlooked locker and uncover a trove of beautiful curiosities, including a stunning wooden carousel horse with gentle eyes and fading paint. But just before Lee leaves the fairground relic at a local repair shop, the sight of a silver samovar awakens her psychic abilities and conjures visions of murder. Lee prays the intrusive ESP episode was just a glimpse into the past - until her policeman boyfriend reports a dead man outside the repair shop. Apparently, the unknown victim had been hot on Lee's trail since the auction. And with the horse found dismantled, it looks like he was up to no good. What's the story behind the antique equine, and could a strange bubblegum-chewing woman with fiery hair have something to do with the crime? Guided by her gift and O'Ryan, her wise tabby cat, Lee's set on catching the murderer...before she's sent on the darkest ride of her life.

©2017 Carol J. Perry (P)2017 Tantor

Critic reviews

"Highly original and great fun. A triumph of imagination with twists and turns to delight readers." (Carolyn Hart, New York Times best-selling author)

My opinion

it was up to the standard set by the previous books excellent. Dgls b Rollins

Very strange addition to the series

I really enjoyed the plot and narration for books 1 - 3. This book, however, seems to lack continuity. The female main character suddenly doesn't know how to cook, but in earlier books, had learned how to cook from her aunt and had prepared a great steak dinner. Similarly, the same narrator in earlier books was much more fluid and enjoyable. In this book, she suddenly over-enunciates everything and has a rather shotgun delivery. I'm hoping these issues aren't present in the remaining books of this series.

Great story if you can stand the narration

I really enjoyed this story but I wish I had read it instead of listening it. I've listened to the first 4 books in the series and the I didn't really like the narration it wasn't as obnoxious as it was in this one. Ms. Client's voice is too high for my taste, but would have been tolerable had she not insisted on denunciations every word with no regard to what was being said. She also confused a New England accent with a New York one! Anyway, I do recommend the book highly of you plan to read it

Another great addition

This was another great addition to the series. Both the author and narrator were spot on. I highly recommend this book as well as the entire series.

Ehh

This was an okay addition to the series. It seemed the author wasn’t sure where she was headed

has anyone ever told you you'd make a good cop!

this was a good story and I enjoyed the storyline, the only problem was with Pete having a problem with the cuckoo. he needed to get over it. other than that it was a good story and the narrator as always did an excellent job.

Good story, awful narration

The narration is terrible: flat, stilted, and choppy. It's irritating because some of the characters are actually fine (the boyfriend sounds normal for example) but the main character and her tarot-reading friend are just ... awful. The story itself is good, though, so it might be worth it for you. I listened to the first 3 a year ago and had forgotten how much I despise this narrator so I got this one for the long COVID haul, but I'm sorry to be locked in my head with this flat, boring voice.

Narration Done Right

This is exactly how a narration should be done if you are reading a book without vocalizing multiple affectation. Some narrators try to do vocalizing in different voices and blow the whole narration causing the listeners joy of a good even great story to be an unhappy experience or even as far as making a great story to be so bad an experience they don't even finish it. If you're narrating a story from certain areas of the US or Foreign Country and can't get the accent right then don't try just read it straight. Thank you for showing a straight read can be very effective.

Fabulous storyline

I really enjoy listening to each book . Makes my traveling go by faster. Great narration also. Ready for the next book...

A bit disappointed

I didn't enjoy this one as much as I enjoyed the previous books in this series. Not because of the writing, but, because the Czar Nicholas story has been done too many times and seemed a bit far fetched. I just couldn't get into it. I also was a bit frustrated with Lee. She needs to accept that she has a gift and make peace with it, or figure out a way to ignore it. Either way, she needs to stop complaining. I hope there is more character development in the next story. I still have hope in this series. C.S.E. Cooney did a great job with the narration. I had no problem with her performance.