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Dead in the Water

A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery, Book 6

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Dead in the Water

By: Carola Dunn
Narrated by: Mia Chiaromonte
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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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I love Carola Dunn's books and have read and/or listened to every one of them; However, this reader's tortured vowels and dreadful pronunciation of several relatively common words, such as GlOAWster for Gloucester and ContratEMPs rather than the correct French pronunciation of 'contretemps', made me wince. The strangled and completely inaccurate renderings of dialectic accents from Birmingham (which at time sounds more like Australian!) and London and supposedly local accents from the Oxford countryside are also poor and detract from one's enjoyment of the performance. Please try harder to use readers who are able to correctly render what would be an accurate representation of the both the Upper and Lower Class accents in use during the 1920s and 1930s.

Very Poor Reading

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It doesn’t take much effort to Google pronunciations, but the narrator pronounced too many words wrongly. The worst was “Gloucester” which was pronounced with a hard “ow” (like cow) sound. In fact, Gloucester” rhymes with “foster”. She also said every single “ham” in place names, so “CherringhAM”, rather than “Cherringhm” which is hard it would be said. After a while, her painful pronunciation affected my enjoyment of the book. Otherwise it was a typical, enjoyable mystery from Carola Dunn

Lazy narration

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The narrator’s pronunciations are just too dreadful. I’ve been enjoying to stories but will have to read the rest as I can’t stand listening to any more

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*pleasantly soothing narration
*good bedtime listen 🌙 zzzz
*needed a character index to help keep track
*light tone
*adore the era 👒
*didn't like the final reveal

Easy listen - didn't love the ending

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the plot was all right, but narrator was terrible. kept listening to find out whodunit.

average

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I enjoy this series bt the narration in the book is very stilted and distracting with so many mispronounciations of words I consider basic to an english speaker. the story itself, was a study in social reactions of the time.

different narrator

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