
Murder on Fifth Avenue
A Gaslight Mystery, Book 14
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Suzanne Toren
Victoria Thompson is the Edgar Award-nominated author of the Gaslight Mysteries and numerous historical romance novels. Set in 19th-century New York, Murder on Fifth Avenue follows midwife Sarah Brandt and Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy as they investigate the murder of a Knickerbocker club member.
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In this book, Frank Malloy has been called in to investigate a murder at the prestigious Knickerbocker Club--a friend of Sarah Brandt's father has been murdered, and he wants Frank, personally, to look into it. This book has Sarah's parents much more involved than previously, and I think that's partly what makes this better. Her mother even helps with the investigation.But the story itself is good as well. Lots of people who have ample motive to kill the victim, and it kept me guessing all along about who could have done it.
One thing I really like about Victoria Thompson is that she weaves bits of turn of the 20th century history into her stories and I always like that. Attitudes about things alter over time, and this story turns on societal ideas, the restrictions of women, and even early ideas about policing. About the narration--Suzanne Toren reads the descriptive parts very nicely, and does some voices quite well. Yet, there are several voices that leave me feeling like fingernails on a chalkboard. She doesn't do male voices at all well. So it is sort of uneven. I like the series well enough to listen anyway.
Good story, but narration grates
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While the story is definitely one of Thompson’s best - it does keep the reader guessing - I could not give it five stars because of the very annoying narrator. As stated in other reviews, she did the straight narration well - and a few of the female voices -but the male voices were horrid. She particularly did not do well on accents - the Italian accents in particular made me cringe, they sounded like Neanderthals. Her interpretation of the mistress was laughable. She sounds like she just inhaled a helium balloon. Given that this story dwells more with Malloy than some of Thompson’s other books, I think perhaps a male/female narration team would have worked much better.
If the rest of this series on Audible is done by this narrator, I’ll stick with Kindle.
Great story, terrible narration
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Great story!
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New York at the Turn of the Century
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Keeps you thinking!
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As always, I looked forward to more developments between her and Frank with each book, and again I was disappointed that this episode didn’t move their romantic relationship along a little more, but I do like the direction her parents are going in.
Great instalment
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Entertaining
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Excellent
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