
The Good Friday Murder
A Christine Bennett Mystery, Book 1
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Narrated by:
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Dee Macaluso
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By:
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Lee Harris
Christine Bennett has left the cloistered world of nuns for the profane world of New York State, where murder and madness are often linked. At a town meeting, Christine volunteers to investigate a 40-year-old murder case long since closed. Now she'll move heaven and earth to exonerate a pair of retarded savant twins, now senior citizens, of their mother's murder on Good Friday in 1950.
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Great Story
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The narration is always great, and the ending of this well written murder mystery brought tears to my eyes, and a smile to my face almost simultaneously.
It was fascinating to learn of her beginnings, after leaving the convent and her endearing meeting of her love interest.
After reading so many books in the series, I thought that going back to the very first book would be somewhat boring, but surprisingly it was not. I cannot speak more highly of this first book of the series. It perfectly sets the foundation for all the rest.
Excellent first book of a wonderful series
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Good story to listen 👂to.
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I enjoy Dee Macaluso's readings, and while some people may (and have) found her boring, I find her easy to listen to and her differentiations of characters are good (though occasionally there will be a voice used in one book that has been used already for a different character in another book - but unless you marathon the books you probably wouldn't notice.)
Now, here is something that Audible does that drives me bonkers: they get most books in a series, but leave some out in the middle. Why? WHY????? With this series they leave out a couple in the middle, then add one of the books with a different reader. Again - WHY????
On this series
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I wish it was cleaner
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This book is like "The Little Engine That Could." It just keeps chugging, and does the job beautifully against all odds. I felt I should have given this book fewer stars for all the ways it felt kind of amateurish. Except that I couldn't, because I was glued to it the whole time. (Narrator could have been better, even that did'nt stop my interest).
I think the things that held this book together were all about the subject matter. A pair of now elderly male twins, who were perhaps amazing autistic savants, had been accused of their mother's murder 40 years previously, after only a cursory police investigation. Christine undertakes to find out whether they were innocent, though reader please note, not necessarily to find who was guilty instead (though that naturally goes with it, but a distinction should be made to understand some of what made the book a little unusual).
The author left me almost in tears as she depicted what the life of these brilliant young men had been, as a result of public ignorance about this condition, and that of others who are different. The two time periods in the book were the early 1950's and roughly 1990-1991 or so. She did a wonderful job of exposing the hurtful (even willful) ignorance and biased attitudes towards people with developmental delays in the two eras, and left little question that while there has been improvement, there is a way yet to go. The author's choice of handling such a sensitive subject matter was a bold, brave move. If future books will be as good as this one was, I'm in line to hear them all.
While this book was technically a mystery, I recommend reading it more because the author chose a daring topic to put at the heart of this mystery. I would like to hope that as she finds her way into more experienced writing, some of the awkwardness of the style will smooth itself out. One reads a mystery expecting a lot of cerebral challenge but in this one, there seemed to be a great challenge to the heart as well. I recommend it as a surprisingly good read.
Good mystery series beginning
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Different but good
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The storyline of this book really held my attention. I was very interested in the mystery of who killed the mother of a pair of savant twins in 1950 NYC. I found the descriptions of NY and the methods used to research the cold case interesting, and I found the characters emotionally involving. The narrator's sunshiney former nun Chris Bennett is spot on with my mental image (I had read this book once in the past). The ending was emotionally satisfying and I continued on to others in the series. I would like to mention that the twins in the story are repeatedly referred to as retarded (which felt outdated) though they seem to be based on cases of well known autistic savants and as the mother of an autistic child I would have preferred that word.Intriguing mystery of a cold case
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Mellow, Thoughtful, Clean Listen REALLY GOOD!!!
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Great story, great attitude
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