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Murder in the Manor

A Lacey Doyle Cozy Mystery, Book 1

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Murder in the Manor

By: Fiona Grace
Narrated by: Mary Sarah
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Murder in the Manor is the debut novel in a charming new cozy mystery series by Fiona Grace.

Lacey Doyle, 39 years old and freshly divorced, needs a drastic change. She needs to quit her job, leave her horrendous boss and New York City, and walk away from the fast life. Making good on her childhood promise to herself, she decides to walk away from it all and relive a beloved childhood vacation in the quaint English seaside town of Wilfordshire.

Wilfordshire is exactly as Lacey remembers it, with its ageless architecture, cobblestone streets, and with nature at its doorstep. Lacey doesn’t want to go back home, and spontaneously, she decides to stay and to give her childhood dream a try: She will open her own antique shop.

Lacey finally feels that her life is taking a step in the right direction...until her new star customer turns up dead. As the newcomer in town, all eyes are on Lacey, and it’s up to her to clear her own name. With a business to run, a next-door neighbor-turned-nemesis, a flirty baker across the street, and a crime to solve, is this new life all that Lacey thought it would be?

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Great story loved it...but the book is set in England and the language is irritatingly incorrect. No town name in Englamd would end in "shire "as this denotes a county
Sidewalk should be ..pavement
Buoyed is not pronounced boo..eed, but "boyed"
Police do not use the word cruiser for their cars....they are simply , cars
The sugary confection is Car-a-mel....not Carmel ..... that is a female name
There are a few others but lastly the reader has an annoyingly "little girl lazy " voice, which grates on the ear

Poor research

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Would have been more bearable with someone who read it rather than sang it. So irritating I couldn't finish it.

Need a new reader

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While the story was good, the narrator was somewhat annoying. Also, I don’t know if I ended up with a dud copy or not but there were a lot of recording errors and chapter 26 was a repeat of chapter 25. I enjoyed the ebook more.

Enjoyable story

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