Patricia Fisher's Mystery Adventures

A Boxed Set

De: Steve Higgs

Narrado por: Maryanne M. Wells

Fans of Agatha Raisin, Miss Marple, and Midsomer Murders are loving the latest English village sleuth.

When a climber suspiciously falls to his death and a local artist has her dog stolen, both cases fall into the lap of local sleuth, Patricia Fisher...and so starts an adventure that will see her travel the world.

Far from being your average woman, Patricia Fisher lives in a 73-room manor house and travels with a Jamaican butler who is part ninja and fakes his Downton Abbey accent. How these things came about is a story in itself, yet far from embracing the quiet English village life - playing croquet on the lawn and eating cucumber sandwiches - Patricia pokes her nose where it is most definitely not wanted and finds herself being shot at rather more often than one ought reasonably to expect.

But as she closes in on the bad guys in each case, it’s clear there is someone operating in the background, someone who has taken offence for crimes previously solved and they plan on getting revenge at any cost. Join her and an enticing cast of friends as they tackle mystery after mystery and get into hot water with criminals, gangsters, and the police. What Sam Knew is the first in a follow-on series from Patricia’s successful Cruise Mystery series Books in that series:

• The Missing Sapphire of Zangrabar
• The Kidnapped Bride
• The Director’s Cut
• The Couple in Cabin 2124
• Dr Death
• Murder on the Dancefloor
• Mission for the Maharaja
• A Sleuth and Her Dachshund in Athens
• The Maltese Parrot
• No Place Like Home

©2020 steve higgs (P)2021 steve higgs

Good stories but…

Liked the stories but the narrator was terrible!!!! She spoiled listening to the stories for me.

I listen to all 5

At first I was put off by the voice of the narrator, I got used to it. The books weren’t anything special but I was entertained and that’s the point with this type of story.

Perhaps a new performer?

The performer struggles with accents. She started out sounding very American and gradually came to sound as though she was studying Julie Andrews tapes. Has trouble bringing authenticity of sound to male characters. Swiss nationals all sound like the Swedish Chef. Difficult to take the story seriously when many of the characters sound like muppets. The Chef began creeping into British characters' dialogue. The stories are fine. Got a kick out of the Tempest Michaels crossovers.

I want more

I loved every story. I was glued to my device trying to see if I solved the crime. I would love to see these made for TV. I'm hooked

Narrator almost ruined a great book

Fantastic story and characters, but the narrator paused after every few words, like there were periods. Slowed the pace too much. She also did terrible voices for Jermaine and Barbie and made them sound like idiots. If this was your first Patricia Fisher, you would hate those characters.

Spoiled by the narration

These are entertaining stories with little or no connection to reality and I would have enjoyed them had it not been for the appalling narration. The stilted cadence of the reader just spoiled the whole experience. Since the narrator was able to produce reasonable voices for characters other than the heroine, one has to believe the annoying accent was deliberate and one can only wonder if she believes that there is some remote corner of England where people actually speak in such a way. Let me assure her there is not.

Great story… not so great reading

Hard to follow the reader and the flow of the story that should be there. Her emphasis on nearly every 2 words as if it is the most emotional though in the book is quite off putting.

It’s a fun and warm detective story. Love the characters.

It was the hardest book to listen to because of the narrator but I wanted to follow the story which I was enjoying.

love the stories but I think I'll read them myself!!

Love the stories, it's entertaining and humorous, innocent fun inbetween my usual books. and a major
☆☆☆☆☆ However the narrator is more that awfull (cant believe it was chosen by the author) I tried I really did! Sentences with "funny" pronunciations are awfull there are so many really great female English narrators..... I am really sorry Maryanne M. Wills your accent is horrid sounds so pretentious and fake, its beyond irritating! If a good narrator was chosen it would have been 5 stars all the way!!

Gripping, interesting, and even funny

The stories in this Book are gripping, very interesting, even funny enough to make me laugh. I enjoyed the stories and the characters but it was difficult getting through the narration in this audio book. The narration had so much slow one word, stop, then the next word stop, it drove me nuts. Best try a sample before you buy.