Trick or Treat

By: Kerry Greenwood

Narrated by: Louise Siversen

Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins

Publisher's summary

Amateur sleuth and baker extraordinaire Corinna Chapman is upstaged when the hot new bread chain, Best Fresh Bread, opens just down the street from her own bakery, Earthly Delights. Meanwhile Daniel's tall, blonde and gorgeous old friend is staying with him while she establishes a base and a business in Melbourne.

When Daniel starts making excuses, Corinna begins to worry about his absences and also the strange outbreak of madness which seems to be centred on Lonsdale Street. Will Corinna win through a maze of health regulations, missing boyfriends, sinister strangers, fraudulent companies, and back alley ambushes? Or will this be the end for the Earthly Delights Bakery?

©2007 Kerry Greenwood (P)2007 Bolinda Audio

Witches and Covens and Curses, oh my!

I can't seem to get enough of Kerry Greenwood. In the fourth Corinna Chapman book Halloween is in the air and the witches are gathering. Meroe is as nervous as a very cool cat in a room full of rocking chairs. She is a solitary Wicca by preference (and because she doesn't really like other witches). Now there are hundreds of witches flooding into Melbourne for the Samhaine rites. And one of the more eclectic covens is on a purely material treasure hunt that threatens the sanctity of the rites. In the spirit of the season there is also a sudden increase in the number of people going mad in town. Corinna encounters one well dressed man in her alley who thinks that his hands have fallen off. Much as she is shaken by this it is nothing to how she feels when a man jumps to his death from the building next door thinking he can fly. Corinna has other causes for anxiety as Daniel has a friend named George staying with him. He may have forgotten to mention that George is tall, blonde, long legged, and imminently female. And George really doesn’t like Corinna. There is also a new franchise bread shop right down the street from Earthly Delights with unbeatable prices, but no taste (on more levels than one). It’s going to be a difficult spring for or intrepid heroine, but there is bread to bake so Corinna can’t just lie abed and worry.

Pronunciation counts.

Would you consider the audio edition of Trick or Treat to be better than the print version?

No. This is the worst of the recordings. (In a very relative way - it's still very very good.) Samhain is pronounced "SOW wen". And the narrator smacks and lisps excessively in this recording.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Trick or Treat?

I'm awfully fond of Uncle Solly, even if he does smack when he talks.

What did you like about the performance? What did you dislike?

The narrator has too many of the characters "smacking" before they start talking. And the pronunciations of wiccan ceremonies are massively incorrect and irritating. She was trying too hard making "voices" for many characters. (smack smack smack. Sigh.)

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

I enjoyed the hostage standoff. Very unlikely but wouldn't it be nice if things turned out this way?

Any additional comments?

Pronunciation counts.

Another classic Corinna story

Who was your favorite character and why?

I loved the Freegans! Such a good concept for the book.

Any additional comments?

I loved this book as much as the previous in the series. The characters continue to develop (including the cats!) and I love that Corinna hates Christmas....or does she?

Love this series

A couple of side stories new rivals ,witches ,bread mysteries and magic being done love this series

Great

I Love all of this series!! I’ve listened multiple times. I do wish there were more.

Trick

Good book.The amazing information about the Holocaust was amazing. The book was entertaining with excellent characters. Great book.

Love theses Corina stories

The stories are great. Reader is ok, but some of the accents are a bit … weird.

Another great mystery!

Corinna and her friends are always fun to visit, and this instalment was no different! A little bit of magic, mystery, and history all rolled into one. Do yourself a Favor and pick this one up. As always the narrator Louise Siverson does a great job of bringing all the characters to life!

We loved it!

Kerry Greenwood and Louise Silversen brought everyone to life and transported us into the story. We breathed in the bakery and salivated over the bread. We visited and collaborated with the CHARACTERS in Insular, each being familiar to our hearts. The cops are beat cops we want on our street. The city is rich beyond measure with CHARACTERS from junkies, Tradies, Actresses, fools, Greek restaurateurs and even an actual pirate. And the cats. They are such welcome bright moments and are indeed cats we've known and loved over the years.

Get the book and enjoy your vacation with your cherished friends in Melbourne!

Fantastic!

Australia, poisons, war-booty, witches, friendship, greed, investigation

Another delightfully complex mystery with Corinna, Daniel, and the characters who live in the building known as Insula. The investigations are into people poisoned with what seems to be LSD, a megalomaniac who claims to be the King of Witches and a ceremony, unusual WW2 booty from Greece showing up locally in Australia, and a few other things. Addictive series!
Louise Siverson is absolutely fantastic in voice interpretation of the interesting characters!

Enjoyable, but narration could have been better.

I really like this series and this was no exception. The story is fun and the characters are well written. The narration is okay, Louise Siversen has a pleasant enough voice, however there are annoying little habits that distract at times. For example there are often strange little pauses and loud gulps/swallowing sounds while she's reading. I also have to say that her foreign accents aren't always the best. Still, the book was thoroughly enjoyable and I will get the next in the series.