The Seventh Sinner

A Jacqueline Kirby Mystery, Book 1

By: Elizabeth Peters

Narrated by: Grace Conlin

Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins

Publisher's summary

For vibrant, lovely Jean Suttman, the fellowship to study in Rome was the culmination of all her dreams, until she undertook an innocent expedition to the ancient subterranean Temple of Mithra.

From the moment she stepped into the pagan darkness and discovered the corpse of the repulsive Albert, one of her fellow students, she was afraid. Not even the comforting presence of the perceptive and practical Jacqueline Kirby could erase the fear that was nourished by one small accident after another. "Accidents" that came dreadfully close to killing her.

Someone was stalking Jean, someone ruthless and determined. Before long she could see no chance of rescue from the ever-present terror...no hope of escape...nothing but death...

©1972 Elizabeth Peters (P)1997 Blackstone Audiobooks

just couldn't get into it

I made no connection with the characters. The point of the story eluded me.

Loved it!

Great story, interesting characters, fantastic location (locations!). And mostly, the narrator did an excellent job!

Fun story, robotic narrator

Rollicking fun whodunnit! It would be much improved with a more skilled narrator. It's hard to tell the difference between the two main women characters, and the Irish accent of another doesn't quite work. Still, all in all, a fun listen.

Fun

A fun romp from Ms Peters with the usual dollop of history. I enjoyed it very much. I also enjoyed Grace Colin's narration. She does a fine Jacqueline Kirby. A nice little mystery with an ending I didn't guess as well.

Interesting story

I enjoyed this story and all the interesting information that it contained. Well developed characters and believable story and the background information truly fleshed out the whole.

Better than expected!

I loved the story and it definitely kept my attention.
I couldn’t warm to the narration, however. It wasn’t bad but there was this haughty tone that carried through each character and that put me off.

Very Enjoyable

Love Elizabeth Peters books (I have read most of them) and Grace Conlin was a good narrator.

Witty

This series follows the adventures of Jacqueline Kirby who is an eccentric, middle-aged librarian with a burgeoning penchant for romance and knack for criminal inquiry. Elizabeth Peters consistently produces publications containing dryly humorous and witty characters with one or two cornballs. Furthermore, her novels always contain a cornucopia of historical information making them enlightening as well as entertaining. The Jacqueline Kirby series adheres to this formula and is a fantastic way to kill a few hours at the gym or on a road trip.

Love these books but narrator isn’t good

She tries to do voices for all the characters which I generally prefer, but her accents are truly terrible. Seems weird to be a narrator if you can’t do even a British accent

Narrator sub par

Mispronunciations drive me mad. Monotonous. Not wonderful voices. On the other hand, the story and writing are lovely

Conlin is a mediocre voice artist. I have Naked Once More with Conlin and another version narrated by Barbara Rosenblat - Rosenblat is soooo superior. Would love hear this with Rosenblat