The Grub-and-Stakers Move a Mountain cover art

The Grub-and-Stakers Move a Mountain

Grub-and-Stakers Series, Book 1

Preview

Get 30 days of Standard free

£5.99/mo after trial. Cancel monthly.
Try for £0.00
More purchase options
Buy Now for £13.44

Buy Now for £13.44

About this listen

A small-town gardening - and archery - club must solve a murder case and save their town from developers in the first cozy mystery featuring Dittany Henbit.

Anyone growing up in Lobelia Falls is taught to learn the elegant, ancient, and occasionally deadly art of shooting with a bow and arrow. Practicing the craft, freelance secretary Dittany Henbit is strolling through the woods with her bow at her side when she meets a surveyor making surveys where he shouldn't. Dittany is giving him what-for when an arrow goes whizzing above her head. It is sharp enough to kill, and was not fired by accident, but Dittany wasn't the target. She and the surveyor find Mr. Architrave, the head of the water department, not far away - lying dead beneath the trees that he loved so much. Progress is coming to Lobelia Falls, and one resident will do anything to stop it. But in a town where every child can shoot, how can Dittany discover who drew the killer bow?

©1981 Alisa Craig (P)2021 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
Amateur Sleuths Cosy Detective Fiction Literature & Fiction Mystery Women Sleuths Women's Fiction
All stars
Most relevant
the story was okay, typical cosy mystery in a small town.
unfortunately the narration is very bland and I actually gave up listening at first. there is an attempt at regional accents but as a scot myself I had absolutely no idea that 1 of the characters was Scottish.
not going to bother with the rest of the series.

dreadful narrator, especially accents

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

I love Macleod’s books but the narration of this is just terrible! I will be avoiding books by the same narrator I’m afraid.

Terrible narrator

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.