What Sam Knew

Patricia Fisher Village Mysteries, Book 1

By: Steve Higgs

Narrated by: Maryanne M. Wells

Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins

Publisher's summary

If you like clean and funny cozy mysteries, then you will love Patricia Fisher!

She over 50, feisty, and oh so good at solving mysteries.

Patricia Fisher is not your average woman. To start with she lives in a 73-room manor house and travels with a Jamaican butler who is part ninja and fakes his Downton Abbey accent. Then add to those facts that she just opened a private investigations business and throw in the worrying bit where people keep trying to kill her.

When a climber suspiciously falls to his death and a local artist has her dog stolen, Patricia finds herself investigating two cases that seem to have no motive and no clues. Even with the help of her friends these mysteries will be hard to unravel.

But as she starts to poke her nose in where it is most definitely not wanted, a name from the past comes back to haunt her, a mysterious underworld figure issues a confusing threat, and she begins to wonder if she has any idea what she is doing. Will her intuition get her through again? Or has she bitten off more than she can chew?

If only she had listened to Sam.

Get ready for a new series of thrills!

What Sam knew is the first in a follow-on series from Patricia’s successful Cruise Mystery series

Books in that series:

• The Missing Sapphire of Zangrabar
• The Kidnapped Bride
• The Director’s Cut
• The Couple in Cabin 2124
• Dr Death
• Murder on the Dancefloor
• Mission for the Maharaja
• A Sleuth and her Dachshund in Athens
• The Maltese Parrot
• No Place Like Home

©2020 Steve Higgs (P)2020 Steve Higgs

I couldn’t keep listening

This is probably an ok story ruined by a horrible narrator. There’s no way to sugar coat it. This person is impossible to listen to. I looked at the time remaining, and looked for another book. Awful in every way. I gave book 3 stars only because it had to get 3 stars to even be published. I hope to return this one.

I struggled with the narration.

I enjoyed the story but the reader was very difficult to listen to. Therefore I’m n ot sure I can continue with this series.

Reader is unlistenable

I like this book and the writer's style, but it was hard to get through for the simple reason the performance was stilted with awkward pauses and ridiculous, annoying and stereotypically over-dramatic accents. I am disappointed to see it's the same performer for the other books in the series, or I'd have purchased them as well. It was THAT bad.

Narration

I loved all the Patricia Fisher cruise mysteries and the narrators were great but this narrator makes everyone seem like a stuck up prig. Germaine, Barbie and Patricia have turned into caricatures of themselves. I hope the Blue Moon series doesn't start using this narrator too. Otherwise, I'm a big fan of all Steve Higgs books!

Awful narrator

I am returning this book due to the narrator. This is about a older woman not a teenager but the narrator treated the book as if it were written for teens.

Patricia does it again

Very entertaining series but sorry I got the audiobook. Narrator should take the clothespin off her nose. Will continue reading the series as I really like the characters and the convoluted plots.

Audible actor.

Maryanne Wells is the most annoying audible actor I have ever heard. I have listened to hundreds of audible books and her voice is absolutely awful. The way she goes up and down makes the character sound like an idiot. I know the cruise mysteries used several different authors and I liked some more than others but if I had listened to the first In this series before I bought the rest I wouldn’t have bought them. I would have just read the books. Frankly I have gone back and bought them so I don’t have to listen to her. Love the books and stories but not this voice actor.

not my cup of tea

not whatiexpected. realy enjoyed
the mysteries about the old man and his dog by the same author. looking forward to the next in that series, but couldn't stand the naration or story in this one. goingto give it back assort as I figure out how

Needs a better narrator

Narrating is too stilted and choppy. Her voice doesn’t grab you. It takes away from story.

Interesting story.

I pretty much selected the murderer early on. I did not enjoy the reading voice. It was over exaggerated, especially the butler. No one talks like that. I found it annoying.