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The Mitford Murders
- Nancy Mitford and the murder of Florence Nightingale Shore
- Narrated by: Rachel Atkins
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
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Summary
A Golden Age-style mystery bursting with period detail and set amid the Mitford household, The Mitford Murders is the glittering start to a thrilling and sumptuous new series written by Jessica Fellowes, author of the number one best-selling Downton Abbey books.
Lose yourself in the gripping first novel in a new series of Golden Age murder mysteries set amid the lives of the glamorous Mitford sisters.
It's 1919, and Louisa Cannon dreams of escaping her life of poverty in London, and most of all her oppressive and dangerous uncle.
Louisa's salvation is a position within the Mitford household at Asthall Manor, in the Oxfordshire countryside. There she will become nurserymaid, chaperone and confidante to the Mitford sisters, especially 16-year-old Nancy - an acerbic, bright young woman in love with stories.
But when a nurse - Florence Nightingale Shore, goddaughter of her famous namesake - is killed on a train in broad daylight, Nancy and amateur sleuth Louisa find that in postwar England, everyone has something to hide....
Written by Jessica Fellowes, author of the number one best-selling Downton Abbey books, The Mitford Murders is the perfect new obsession for fans of Daisy Goodwin, Anthony Horowitz and Agatha Christie - and is based on a real unsolved crime.
Critic reviews
"Exactly the sort of book you might enjoy with the fire blazing, the snow falling. The solution is neat and the writing always enjoyable." (Anthony Horowitz)
"Oh how delicious! This terrific start to what promises to be a must-read series is exactly what we all need in these gloomy times? Inventive, glittering, clever, ingenious. I devoured The Mitford Murders...so will you. Give it to absolutely everyone for Christmas, then pre-order the next one." (Susan Hill)
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- cdw
- 09-10-17
Lovely, lovely, lovely!!!!
Downtown Abbey with murder!!!! And very well read. A pleasure to listen to! Looking forward to the next instalment.
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- Amazon Customer
- 06-01-18
Disappointing
Not a particularly well written story which seemed over long in the telling. The narrator rendered the characters insipid or annoying.
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- Lorna
- 18-12-17
A curious endeavour
I wonder why this seemed like a good idea? A standard whodunnit with the Mitfords shoe-horned in. I'm not a Mitford expert, but it seems hard to believe that Nancy would have been quite so attached to a rather teary nursery maid with a violent uncle hanging about. And the heavy handed references to the sisters' foibles is grating (imagine - Pam loves animals and Unity is grumpy). Well read though, although the main character has a voice like a docker. All in all, I'd give it a miss.
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- Kindle Customer
- 29-01-18
Mitford Murders.
Could have been to!d in half the time. Few of the characters were credible. Nancy Mitford was an excellent authoress and I don't think she would have appreciated this portrayal of herself.
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- Justin
- 22-05-18
Awful
Genuinely terrible. Makes Midsomer Murders look like quantum physics. Terrible dialogue broadly drawn from a Mary Poppins like view of London.
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- Amazon Customer
- 22-12-17
Narrator is distracting
Sadly I just couldn’t get into this book, I persevered but the narrator became too annoying/distracting for me. All subjective, I know! Just not for me.
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- Mrs Maureen Cate
- 14-11-17
PREDICTABLE BUT ENJOYABLE...
A fiction greatly enhanced by factual persons and events. An enjoyable read with characters and events both real and invented. Basically, a light, period,detective story but none the less a worthwhile listen - especially if you are a Mitford fan.
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- Lise
- 21-12-17
Waist of time
I had a hard time finishing this audiobook. The characters was unlikable.
A couple of hours, into the book, I had figured out who the murder was.
One of Main characters was a bit annoying, and for some reason the narrator choose to give her extremely childish and annoying voice.
In my opinion this audiobook was a waste of time. But maybe a young audience would like it.
(Sorry for my english, it is not my language)
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- Carol
- 09-05-18
Good story
Enjoyable, easy listen. Not sure that "There you go" when offering a cup of tea was a 1920s expression, and would a cafe actually serve bacon sabdwiches mid-afternoon in that era? Al in all a good yarn.
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- White Socks!
- 16-04-18
Wonderful whodunit!
Great story, with a few twists.
The characters are brought to life by a superb narration.
Very enjoyable.
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