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  • Premeditated Mortar

  • Fixer-Upper Mysteries, Book 8
  • By: Kate Carlisle
  • Narrated by: Jae Delane
  • Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (243 ratings)

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Premeditated Mortar

By: Kate Carlisle
Narrated by: Jae Delane
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Publisher's summary

Contractor Shannon Hammer gets tangled up in murder at a spooky old asylum in the latest Fixer-Upper Mystery from New York Times best-selling author Kate Carlisle....

Shannon Hammer is about to embark on one of the biggest projects of her career. Her best friend Jane Hennessey has purchased one wing of the Gables, formerly the old state insane asylum, located on a bucolic hillside two miles northeast of Lighthouse Cove. Jane plans to turn her section into a small luxury hotel complete with 20 ocean-view rooms, a spa, and a restaurant.

Shannon is raring to get started on the enormous project and is shocked when a group of unruly protesters shows up at the groundbreaking ceremony and wreaks havoc. She’s even more freaked out when someone pushes her into a pit of bricks in a closed-off room of the asylum. Despite her close call, Shannon wants nothing more than to get back to work...until she finds a body not far from where she was pushed. Now Shannon is determined to get to the bottom of the goings-on at the Gables even if it kills her....

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The narrator should be changed

My disappointment that this same high pitched voiced woman has narrated the next two books in this series. Do these authors not know these people need diction lessons to LOWER THAT REGISTER?

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Loved previous books

I can’t tell if it is the new narrator or the book, but it is lacking something I loved when I started the series. I have no desire to listen to high pitched voices, and I think the way the boom was read made the characters sound like simpletons. I managed through the other books she read but won’t likely get another one with the same narrator

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Loved it, except for...

I loved this book just as much as I have loved all her other books. However the choice of the voice for Mac continually grated on my nerves and kept making me feel like I needed to clear my throat.

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Read them all

I've enjoyed this series. The narrators were not so great. The Hallmark casting for the movie was just as bad, but the underlying story was good. I think I'd recommend reading these books over the audible versions.

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Story Good. Narrator Not Good.

Loved the story. Disliked the Narrator. Am anxious for next Book to check out characters.

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Really enjoyed the book!

However, I would give the artist 1 star. The dog in these books is a Westie. A Westie looks NOTHING like the dog in the art work.

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love the story, really don't care for the narrator

I've listened to every one of these book, these last two are very hard, the narrator is frankly awful. listening to Mac makes me want to clear my throat and I keep waiting for Jane to cackle "and your little dog too" it took me a long time to listen to this because I didn't care for the narration in the last book, it's worse in this one. I see the next is out with the same narrator, I don't know if I'll be buying it...

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5 stars

The books in this series are always entertaining. However, the subject matter was very sad.

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Great twist near the end of the book

I enjoyed the story; the unexpected twist near the end made it difficult to deduce who the killer was until the end. The characters are well developed and the mystery unfolds in a way to keep you interested and wanting to hear more. What I found less than the desirable was the narration. Jae Delane's voice sounds somewhat like a young girl, not a mature and confident contractor with a successful construction company. Also she has trouble with male voices, Mac sounds as if he has laryngitis. Angela Starling is a much better narrator.

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Premeditated Mortar

I truly enjoyed this book. It is nice to know the characters in a book series. It makes you feel as though you are there. I got into audio books because of cataracts but I enjoy the format so much I still use it even though my eyes are fixed.

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