The Irish Inheritance

Jayne Sinclair Genealogical Mystery Series, Book 1

By: M. J. Lee

Narrated by: Lucy Rayner

Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins

Publisher's Summary

July 8, 1921. Ireland. A British Officer is shot dead on a remote hillside south of Dublin.

November 22, 2015. United Kingdom. Former police detective Jayne Sinclair, now working as a genealogical investigator, receives a phone call from an adopted American billionaire asking her to discover the identity of his real father.

How are the two events linked? Jayne Sinclair has only three clues to help her: a photocopied birth certificate, a stolen book, and an old photograph. And it soon becomes apparent somebody else is on the trail of the mystery: a killer who will stop at nothing to prevent Jayne discovering the secret hidden in the past.

©2016 MJ Lee (P)2017 Tantor

Unpredictable, well written.

I really enjoyed the story. I would probably have enjoyed it more with a different narrator. Lucy Raynor's performance is technically perfect but her reading has a sing-songy quality that I find rather grating. I'm sure those very inflections make her popular with others. Just a matter of personal taste.

Narrator

Trying hard to get used to the narrator. She has a cadence that is kind of grating on the ears. I hope I can finish it. It seems like a great story.

Why the foul language?

I enjoyed the story line and the historical evidences provided. What I truly objected to was the smattering of foul language in various parts. The story would have been just as enjoyable without seeing the word "tuck" in many places. Surely the author has a better command of language that such words could have been avoided entirely.

An excellent mystery

Loved the book. Both the mystery in the past that requires the heroine to search for answers and the mystery of who and why someone doesn't want her to find them make a great story.

Superb writer Gripping storyline

This is an excellent mystery of intrigue, danger and emotional ties to the past.
Historically the story encompasses England, Ireland and the U.S. Couldn't stop listening and was engrossed until the end.

Genealogical mystery with too much vulgarity

Story line is wonderful but there is too much vulgarity and use of sacrilege. Narrator does a good job but definitely not Christian type literature. Interesting subject matter but was definitely detracted by use of so much vulgarity. I like a good Genealogical mystery but will probably not read more by this author. I much prefer G G Vandagriff’s genealogical mysteries. Even the genealogical mysteries be Steve Robinson were not so vulgar as this on.

Sorry the second book isn't available.....

but perhaps not. I enjoyed the historical periods described in the story very much. Good hustorical context and all mysteries are resolved. I read it through to the end. I like historical mysteries and the story held my interest. I wish the second book in this series was available here. That being said, I can't tell whether I dislike the protagonist, or the narration of her. I wasn't impressed by clipped voice assigned to her by the narrator who has read 130 books for this platform. It seems the narrator likes to do voices, and in fairness, there is a lot of dialogue and many characters, a few too many. Perhaps she also found the character a challenge and it shows. In subsequent books, the protagonist may smoothe out or fill in. Sometimes details are overexplained in the first book of a series. This genealogist is a bit of a swashbuckler, if that term can be ascribed to woman. It is hard to like, or even pity, the client, and i don't know whether I like the genealogist, both characters can be impatient and rude. I would like to give the genealogist a second chance, but not enough to waste the vision that I do have to read it.

Wonderful!!!

This is a book with intrigue, humor and well written puzzles. I will be sharing it with friends.

Performance

I particularly enjoyed the narrators ability to use the various regional accents to bring the story to life.

No Mystery Here

If you haven't figured out the "mystery" by the time the "genealogist/policewoman" by the time she sees the return address on the letter, you don't read many mysteries.

Narrator

I would love to listen this book as like the storyline but I couldn’t even get through the first chapter listening to the ridiculous affected voice of the narrator, a couple of words in every sentence being raised a few octaves. Presumably she thought it gave an emphasis. It didn’t. It was incredibly irritating. Awful, painful. I went on a few chapters to see if it improved. It didn’t! I listen to audiobooks to relax, this did the opposite. Will see if it’s available to read on Kindle. I have to put stars. I haven’t listened to it beyond the first character. I do think I would enjoy reading it. Who picks these narrators?

Could have been better

I love anything to do with ancestry/genealogy so was delighted to find this book. The mystery bit of the book was good but other parts of the storyline were cringe worthy.
The narrator was something else, almost drove me insane, I would never listen to another book she has narrated.
This could have been a good book but for the narration and the un-necessary farcicle bits.

Good tale

Enjoyed the story but it was spoilt by the narrator. Would buy more books by this authornbut not using this narrator

Excellent

A real pleasure and delight to listen to, characters and story was detailed and moved swiftly along.can not recommend highly enough.