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Dead in the Water
- A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery, Book 6
- Narrated by: Mia Chiaromonte
- Series: Daisy Dalrymple, Book 6
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Mystery
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Nice story but uninspiring narrator
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Die Laughing
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One morning in April 1924, the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher finds herself in a most unenviable position. Despite her best attempts to elude the inevitable, she must face her darkest fears and with all the strength and courage she can muster, must confront the one person she has tried hardest to avoid - the dentist. But upon arriving for her appointment, she finds the waiting room deserted and adjoining examination room locked, with no hint of either Dr. Talmadge or his nurse.
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Death at Wentwater Court
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This first installment of a cozy mystery series transports listeners back to the bygone era of 1923 Britain, where unflappable flapper and fledgling journalist Daisy Dalrymple daringly embarks on her first writing assignment, and promptly stumbles across a corpse.
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Story was quite good, but....
- By Vanessa Young on 16-04-2017
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Superfluous Women
- A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery
- By: Carola Dunn
- Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
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In England in the late 1920s, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, on a convalescent trip to the countryside, goes to visit three old school friends in the area. Daisy and her husband Alec - Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher, of Scotland Yard - go for a Sunday lunch with Daisy’s friends, where one of the women mentions a wine cellar below their house, which remains curiously locked, no key to be found. Alec offers to pick the lock, but when he opens the door, what greets them is not a cache of wine but the stench of a long-dead body.
Publisher's Summary
May the best man die!
In July of 1923, the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple travels to Henley-on-Thames to visit her aunt and uncle, as well as to work on her latest writing assignment: covering the Henley Royal Regatta for an American magazine.
Daisy plans a simple trip researching her article, enjoying the races, and, come the weekend, having a pleasant time with her fiancé, Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard. But the tensions between the Ambrose team's coxswain, Horace Bott - a shopkeeper's son and scholarship student at Oxford - and rower Basil DeLancey - the younger son of an earl and all-around bounder - are constantly threatening to erupt into violence.
The day after losing a race thanks to Bott's overindulgence the night before, DeLancey keels over and dies mid-race. Foul play is immediately suspected, with Bott the logical suspect. But nothing is obvious in this tangled web of jealousies and secrets, and while Inspector Fletcher investigates the murder, Daisy once again must ferret out the truth.
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- consuelo
- 06-07-2014
Narrator doesn't know how to pronounce the words!
Where does Dead in the Water rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
The story is fun but the reading is not, so it ranks near the bottom.
Did the plot keep you on the edge of your seat? How?
Sort of. It's a cozy mystery, so it's not meant to be thrilling, I think.
Would you be willing to try another one of Mia Chiaromonte’s performances?
No. This is the second reading in this series by Mia Chiaromonte, and she mispronounces words all over the place. As I've said in past reviews, specifically about Mary Sarah Agliotta, when I pay for an audiobook, I expect the reader to know how to pronounce the words. Mia Chiaromonte thinks a "fit of pique" is a "fit of pickay." And that's just one instance. It's annoying enough to make me stop listening to this series, even though the stories are fun.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
It pissed me off, because, as stated above, the reader didn't bother to check the pronounciation of the words before she did the reading, and the producer didn't do anything about it.
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- Joan
- 01-05-2014
Good story, terrible narrator
I am a longtime fan of Carola Dunn's Daisy Dalrymple books, but this performance was horrible. It is extremely distracting, and insulting, to have a narrator use a fake English accent (and badly); if you don't have an English narrator, just get a good narrator to speak normally! Not only was the accent totally wrong, so were the characterizations of various characters, especially of Alec, who comes across as a real jerk (which he is not). Also, the narrator mispronounced numerous placenames (Gloucester, Berkshire), as well as ordinary English-language words ("pique" does not have two syllables). I hope this narrator will not be doing the remainder of the Daisy Dalrymple books.
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- Simon Weston
- 13-09-2020
Does the production team ever read the reviews-Narrator Complaint-AGAIN
The only mystery here is how the narrator survives! As a professional she must be burned by the stream of complaints of her DREADFUL narration, yet as a professional she should be inspired to improve, but she doesn’t. She doesn’t take care to do her research, she doesn’t take care to work on her accents , so why should I take care to pay to listen to her spoiling the authors work. It is her tool of trade. A second question is. How on earth the production team or stakeholders involved do not take note and respond? it’s as if they don’t take care to listen to their customers. If me or my staff didn’t listen to our customers we could not feed our families. I wish to be charitable but I cannot. This is the 3rd book in the series the narrator has mangled, each ‘performance’ is simply appalling. She spoils the experience.
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- Keith
- 27-04-2014
Great story terrible narrator
As always with the Daisy Dalrymple stories the story is well plotted and the main characters particularly Daisy and Fletcher are likable. I would recommend any of the books in this series. The problem with the audio book lies with the choice of narrator who tries and fails miserably to do British accents. She does not seem to have bothered to try to look up the correct pronunciation of British place names and every time she mangled Gloucester (it should be pronounced Gloster not Glowcester) it grated - this is just one example among among many many others - there seems to be a mistake almost every time she tries to do a upper class accent. If I had not been on a long drive I would have stopped listening and bought a copy of the paperback!
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- PATRICIA MCCOOL
- 19-03-2017
love this series!
I have to admit I am fairly addicted to this series of books. Daisy Dalrymple is just Spiffing!!
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- Caroline
- 09-07-2016
Farewell Daisy
What was most disappointing about Carola Dunn’s story?
Each story in this series has edged downward and I'm finally done. Both the plot and the narration have done it in for me. In cozy mysteries, I'm not looking for great literature, only for something to keep my mind off how much I hate exercising, but this series has reached the point where I want to pitch myself off the back of the treadmill just to end the misery.
Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Mia Chiaromonte?
I wish they hadn't changed the narrator from the first couple of books. Mia Chiaromonte should be banned from doing accents, or narrating books set outside the U.S.
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- Carolyn
- 28-01-2016
Change the Narrator!!!
The narrator is bad, so it's hard to know if that will stop you buying the book or not. I like Daisy, so I'm willing to put up with Mia Chiaromonte, but wow, it's a lot to put up with. She is terrible with accents, mispronounces words, and puts the emphasis on the wrong word. For example, the, "what?" at the end of the sentence completely flummoxes her. It's really too bad because the narrator for the first few books in the series was good. If you can overlook the pretty bad narration, then go for it. The book is good.
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- E. Malterer
- 03-12-2020
Can't separate the performance
Listeners will get the impression the narrator doesn't really understand what she's reading. Things like mistaking "what?" at the end of a 1920s posh English gentleman's sentence for an actual question instead of the verbal tick it is intended to be is distractingly off-putting. There may be more dimension to the characters but everything is presented fairytale flat. Whether this is due to direction or acting choice is unclear. Either way the text suffers. Worth a listen if it's included in your plan.
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- Gia
- 02-11-2020
Worst Narration by Mia Chiaromonte!
Mia Chiaromonte should be narrating baby/toddler board books and preschool books. Carola Dunn, please have these books in this delightful series you have created re-recorded with a more suitable narrator. I simply cannot listen to Mia Chiaromonte ruin the audible experience of this series.
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- Brennan
- 28-10-2020
Story great, narrator ugh
Again, can’t complain about the story. It was terrific. Narrator same as previous couple books, and is arg arg arg
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- Janey
- 02-12-2017
Awful narration
This story is completely ruined by the awful narration. Not only is the voice annoying, because of the accent, but there is little distinction between characters. Worse still is the appalling pronunciation. If someone can’t pronounce Gloucestershire they have no place reading an audio book. Audible need to listen to these books before they put them out for customers to pay good money for. Obviously their quality control is nonexistent.
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- Mrs. H. L. Rider
- 23-04-2017
sheer delight
I have really enjoyed this book. I love the lighthearted manor in which Dunn writes and the sheer number of peculiar mis- pronunciations have to be deliberately added for effect but most of them are guess able. Whether your main read or the lighter book to accompany more 'heavy' main reads this book can't fail to delight.
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- OSCARPOD
- 14-06-2014
Loved this story
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
Yes. This is the sort of story that if you like Agatha Christie, Dorothy L Sayers and Ngaio Marsh you will love. Not quite the social details of those writing in the time period but a well told story that is engaging
What other book might you compare Dead in the Water to, and why?
I can't think of a book but the work compares favourably to works by Agatha Christie, Dorothy L Sayers and Ngaio Marsh.
How did the narrator detract from the book?
Unfortunately the choosen narrator can't do any English accents or dialects. The poor lass who was supposed to come from the Black Country sounded more cockney that the policeman who lived in London and many ordinary words were incorrectly pronounced which could find you after a while mentally or actually correcting her. It is a pity as this will put some listeners off and this work deserves more than that.
If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?
Amateur sleuth in rowing mystery. Murder on the river in Regatta week.
Any additional comments?
This author has written 22 Daisy books can we have some more for Audible and not just Kindle consumption please
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- A-R. Mauuarin
- 04-03-2014
Classic whodunnit with annoying narrator
Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?
The story is a classic whodunnit, I enjoyed the story in itself.
But the narrator is extremely annoying. She sounds like a southern belle trying her hand at posh english... it's pronounced "Buckinghamsher" and "Glostur" - not "Buckinghamshayer" and "Glouwstehr"... argh
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Who was your favorite character and why?
I rather like Daisy, I think I'd inviter her to tea, if she existed :-)
Would you be willing to try another one of Mia Chiaromonte’s performances?
no... I think I'll read another Daisy Dalrymple myself...
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- Ace
- 19-06-2020
Teeth grindingly awful narration
I quite like the lightweight Daisy Dalrymple stories but this one takes the biscuit for the most awful English narration. It sounds like someone who usually uses American English putting on a British English accent, but that is not the real issue. I can understand why in a story about Henley and rowing that Remenham could be mispronounced by those not familiar with the major sporting event held there, but Gloucester, regatta and plebeian also all get murdered at least once before the first body is found. And if anyone from the publishers is reading this the position in a boat called bow rhymes with how not hoe.
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- Matt F-S
- 19-01-2020
Poor “Accents” of the narrator
I love the Daisy Dalrymple stories. Mia Chiaromonte has a lovely voice BUT has the worst interpretation of English natives accents and correct pronunciation since Dick Van-Dyke in Mary Poppins. It’s a shame that A performer with a convincing ability to copy an accent is not narrating this.
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- Chobe
- 11-12-2019
Great story but
Spoilt by so so many poorly pronounced words. An English actress would have no difficulty. Beautiful voice, but not right for this narration.
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- Joan
- 23-06-2018
Terrible reader
A quintessential English book read by someone who has little understanding of how the prose should be spoken not the style of writing of that era. A good story and characters spoilt I wouldn’t recommend for this reason
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- M B Jackson
- 04-01-2018
Listen to a sample before you buy!
Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
I enjoyed the story at the start, but struggled to listen because of the narrator’s poor pronunciation of some words such as Berks (for Berkshire) which became frustrating after a while. Would suggest anyone thinking of buying it listens to an audio sample and reads reviews first. I didn’t and regret it, especially as I “treated” myself to 2 books at the same time. Same narrator :(
What didn’t you like about Mia Chiaromonte’s performance?
The narrator’s accent was quite strange and to me did not fit with the period the book was set in. Found myself focusing on the narration rather than the story. Will read the book to find out whodunnit!
Any additional comments?
I wonder if Audible listen to samples from books or get opinions from people before they are put on sale? Some narrators are better than others and I suppose I have been lucky as this is the first time I have been put off a book by the reader.
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- Mrs J M Sewell
- 28-03-2017
The Duke of Glawster, really!?
I began to wonder whether the reader was an English speaker. Her pronunciation is appalling. It spoils the whole book. I gave up, it is the first Audible book I have been unable to finish.
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