The Camille Divine Murder Mysteries Boxset

By: Ándrea Hicks

Narrated by: Ink Arnadine

Length: 22 hrs and 41 mins

Publisher's summary

If you love cozy murder mysteries set in 1920s London, the Camille Divine Murder Mysteries series is for you. Get to know sassy Lady Camille Divine and her loyal maid Cecily Nugent as they find adventures and solve mysteries while traveling around the world. Our girls are a resolute pair, refusing to give up even when the police already have!

Perfect for fans of Agatha Christie, Midsomer Murders, Agatha Raisin, and Downton Abbey.

The Christmas Tree Murders: The Christmas trees in Knightsbridge sparkle with festive joy, and there’s nothing more fun than Christmas cocktail parties to ring in the new year of 1922.

Camille Divine, known as Lady Camille Divine, has decorated her little house in Birdcage Mews with glistening decorations and a beautiful Christmas tree, but she has more on her mind than the festive season. Lady Phoebe Carruthers begs Camille to investigate the disappearance of her personal maid. Women begin to disappear off the street, their bodies left under the Christmas trees that stand in front of London's most popular landmarks. Something links the women who have been murdered and Phoebe's maid, and Camille is determined to find out what the connection is before another woman is murdered.

She realizes there is safety in numbers, and that she can do so much more with a team of resolute women by her side, so she recruits some of our old friends, Carrie, Elsie, Dorothy, and Ida, to help her discover what happened to Phoebe's maid, and why so many women are being murdered in such a brutal way.

Murder on the Dance Floor: London, 1922. The Summer Ball is arranged. Camille Divine has received her invitation to Antonella Toignton’s home in Chelsea, the one she inherited from her father, where the Summer Ball will be held.

At first, Camille is loath to attend after promising herself a rest after her last investigation, but the envelope in which the invitation came also holds a letter from Antonella, one of Camille’s closest friends, begging her to attend the Summer Ball as she needs to speak with her urgently about some strange happenings at her new home. Camille sighs, knowing she doesn’t have the willpower to resist a mystery, and if her friend needs her help, she will never refuse.

With the mid-summer temperatures reaching boiling point, and the demise of a guest at the Ball, Camille realises there’s a murderer amongst the invitees. Has Antonella requested the presence of a killer at the Summer Ball? And why do the family members and friends seem to suspect one another?

The Brighton Murders: The week before Christmas, Brighton, 1922.

When Camille discovers that her estranged husband, Lord Henry (known as Harry) Divine, has given her a boat house in Brighton as part of her divorce settlement, she decides to visit it before the Christmas holidays, anticipating work needing to be done after a long time away from Brighton's delights. She takes her loyal maid, Cecily, with her, and drives down to Brighton in the new motor car included in the settlement. They make a jolly twosome, Camille and Cecily, both looking forward to a few bracing days by the sea, knowing it will be jolly cold, but still looking forward to a break away from the increasingly busy streets of London.

Camille describes the boat house to Cecily in glowing terms, remembering the wonderful times she and Henry, along with their daughter, Ottilie, then a baby, spent there, playing on the beach and drinking hot chocolate before an open fire.

©2023 Andrea HICKS (P)2023 Andrea HICKS

Wonderfully written.. beautifully narrated

This series is so well written. The characters develop so well as the story flows. The narration was excellent. The author gave the world life and motion, while the narrator gave the characters breath and feeling. Well done.

Marvelous Mysteries

You can't get better than Ms. Hicks' stories except to combine 3 of her books into a boxed set! The Camille Devine Murder Mysteries is another fabulous who-done-it series featuring Lady Camille Devine, a determined woman in the 1920s, who innocently enough, happens into intriguing murder cases. Not one to be easily deterred, Lady Devine and her faithful household staff search for the clues to solve the murder. Ms. Arnadine's deft narration envelopes the listener, bringing them into the story as if they were in the room with each and every character. At times, I forgot it was just one person providing the narration. I highly recommend these books and any that Ms. Arnadine provides the narration.

Romance disguised as mystery

The maid is silly, the romance between lead characters is boring, I will not continue with this series. I like British mysteries, particularly from late 1880s up to 1950s but this is not a good series.