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Murder in Williamstown

By: Kerry Greenwood
Narrated by: Wendy Bos
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Accustomed to both murder and dalliance, Australia's favourite detective, the inimitable Miss Fisher, returns in a case that will test her tact and judgement to the full. When the redoubtable Miss Phryne Fisher receives threatening letters at her home, she enlists the unflappable apprentice Tinker to investigate. But as the harassment of Phryne threatens to spin out of control, her lover, Lin Chung is also targeted. Meanwhile, Dot begins to fear that her fiance, newly promoted Sergeant Hugh Collins, has gone cold on setting a date for their wedding. Phryne's clever daughters, Ruth and Jane, begin their own investigation into suspiciously dwindling funds when they are sent to help at the Blind Institute. None of this is quite enough to prevent Phryne from accepting an invitation to a magnificent party at the house of the mysterious Hong. When the party is interrupted by shocking tragedy, Phryne gathers all of her unerring brilliance to track down the miscreants. With some unlikely assistance, Phryne is in a race against time to save a pair of young lovers from disgrace and death.©2022 Kerry Greenwood (P)2022 W. F. Howes Ltd Crime Fiction Detective Fiction Mystery Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Murder Race Against Time Suspense Crime
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i know Stephanie Daniel was a really hard act to follow, but the narration was terrible; almost AI in the slow pace and mispronunciations. The story also seemed disjointed, characterisations changed and relationships almost unrecognisable. Author not on form here, and I love all the other Phryne books and re-listen to them endlessly.

Disappointing outing for Phryne

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This is a very enjoyable and clever story. The different threads all work well together and it's nice to see Jane and Ruth having a large part to play in the action. However, the narration is so bad I can't listen to it a second time. The narrator of the previous books was much better (apart from the singing), If this was re-recorded using the previous narrator I wouldn't hesitate to buy it. Please don't use the narrator of this book for Death in Daylesford or any other Phryne Fisher books.

Clever plot, poor narration

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I know that this was a final Phryne story written before Kerry died but I’m wondering if it was more a case of notes that were then written up by someone else in order to release it. The narrator is not at all enjoyable. The mispronounced words, the occasional repeated line (editing issue I’m sure) and just everything in general made me want to shout uncontrollably that it’s all wrong! Dot and Hugh’s relationship is just all wrong too. They were seriously “loved up” in previous stories… what happened in between for this to be their fate?
If a ghost writer has been used and the plan is to use someone again I think that the publishers should find someone who knows the Phryne stories better than whoever did this.

Disappointing

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I probably listened to this too soon after re listening to the rest of the series, meaning I compared it too closely to the ones read by Stephanie,
Therefore little mistakes ( Jane cut her hair after being nearly drowned in a previous book, not tied to a tree!)
and the household relationships were just different! When compared to the other books,
Suggest that you read/listen to this long enough later for the differences to blur a bit,

Different, quite good, but preferred the others,

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The story was interesting, but the narration was wooden and stilted. Such a shame, distracted from the narrative.

Wooden narration

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