The Drowning Spool

A Needlecraft Mystery

By: Monica Ferris

Narrated by: Betsy Bronson

Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins

Publisher's summary

Even though running Crewel World keeps Betsy plenty busy, a little extra cash on the side doesn't hurt. So when the local senior complex, Watered Silk, asks her to teach a class on the tricky punch needle technique, Betsy jumps at the opportunity to win over some new customers.

Unfortunately, the business that Betsy drums up is not of the needlework variety. A young woman is found floating in Watered Silk's therapy pool, and Betsy's sleuthing skills are immediately called upon to figure out who drowned her. But the list of suspects is more twisted than any Betsy has encountered before. The young woman had three lovers - each with a motive for the murder. It's up to Betsy to sort out the snarl of romantic entanglements and find a killer.

©2014 Mary Monica Pulver Kuhfeld (P)2014 Dreamscape Media, LLC

Narrator did characters that were not believable

Would you listen to The Drowning Spool again? Why?

No, I would not listen to this again.

Would you be willing to try another one of Betsy Bronson’s performances?

I think that Betsy Bronson's voice was easy to listen to until she did other characters. I usually feel like I'm connected to the story, this one I felt like I was listening to a cartoon. I would listen to her without character voices.

Any additional comments?

I listened to the whole book but had a hard time getting through it. I have listened to all of the other books and I loved them. I could not connect to this one.

Good story but hard to listen to.

As always a good story by Monica Ferris, but it was very hard to listen to the extra ordinary performance of the narrator. Being used to the excellent narration of the previous books in the series, this was hard to stomach and it was with difficulty that I managed to listen to the end. I’ll be sure to check on the narrator before buying an audiobook again .
Sorry that this happened to a very good series.

Please do not use this Narrator

Is there anything you would change about this book?

Yes, keep Susan Boyce as the narrator. Betsy Bronson is awful.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Godwin for his comic relief

How could the performance have been better?

The narrator tried too hard to change voices for each character both male & female. She didn't do it well and it distracted from an interesting story

If this book were a movie would you go see it?

Maybe

Any additional comments?

I love this series. I have listened to them many times and find them an enjoyable read. This one was a good story but bad narrator.

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Loved the story line but the narration was horrible.
Please do not use the narrator again.

It was okay

This wasn't as good as the others but it was okay. I found myself skipping forward a couple of times. I hope the next book in the series is more interesting.

Love the story, but not the narrator!

I loved the story and suffered on through the horrible narration. Don’t do voices or accents if you can’t! How could Audible pass this one I just can’t imagine.

Great story, worth sitting through awful narration

Unfortunately for some reason or another this book has been read by a different narrator. She's not too bad on the regular reading, but she cannot do voices, they honestly make you cringe.

She even gives Lars some strange Norwegian accent whereas he's only a descendent from what I remember.

But weird voices to absolutely everyone and each of them annoying.

Wanted to hear the book so suffered through it. The story is a good one and makes it worth it.

The story leaves you hanging till the end going back and forth between various suspects. It was one of my favorites by Monica Ferris.

Am really going to miss this series.

THIS NARRATOR IS HORRIBLE

I love this series and enjoyed this book. But the narration by Betsy Bronson was HORRIBLE and frankly a little racist. They should have this re-recorded. The voices for characters beyond the protagonist are either a weird nasal witch voice or a strange low Eeyore voice… it would have been so much better with no “voices” at all. I dont usually have an issue with narration, this was unfortunately exceptionally bad. Thank goodness this is Bronson’s only needlecraft mystery!

Narrator ruined the whole story. Worst I've heard.

This narrator was so bad, if I didn't already know the characters, I would've quit listening in the first two chapters.

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I thoroughly enjoyed this story, but it would have been much better if narrated by Susan Boyce.
Betty Bronson's interpretation of the voices of Goddy, Betsy, Connor, etc is very poor.