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The Vicarage Murder

Monica Noble Detective, Book 1

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The Vicarage Murder

By: Faith Martin
Narrated by: Claire Storey
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Meet Monica Noble: the vicar’s wife with a taste for solving crimes.

Please note this book was first published as An Unholy Mess under Faith Martin’s pen name Joyce Cato.

In a quiet Cotswold village, all hell is about to break loose.

Monica Noble is throwing a party to welcome the village’s new residents. The guests include Margaret and her cheating husband Sean. Also on the list are a celebrity chef, an Oxford university professor, a 40-something divorcee, and the owner of a chain of gyms.

Then as the drinks are flowing, a shotgun blast rings out. One of the guests is found dead.

DCI Dury and Sergeant Jim Greer are soon on the scene and discover that the victim had many enemies. Almost all the guests harbor secrets and motives for murder. Even Monica’s daughter comes under suspicion.

When another villager is strangled to death nearly a week later, the stakes are raised.

Can Monica help the local detectives save her daughter and solve the murders before anyone else pays the ultimate price?

This is the first of a series of enjoyable murder mysteries with great characters and baffling crimes which will keep you gripped till the final minute.

Perfect for fans of classic whodunits by authors like Agatha Christie, LJ Ross, TE Kinsey, and J.R. Ellis.

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Having really enjoyed the Loveday and Ryder series by the same author, I thought I would try this book. Unfortunately I found the story a lot less entertaining and enjoyable. It was okay but I will not go on to read or listen to any others in this series even though I suspect that there could be interesting dynamics between some of the characters in the future.

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I enjoyed this book a good plot however the narration was fine for the female characters but absolutely unsuitable for the male characters who came across as weedy little men and spoiled what is a fine story

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Certainly thorough in the work that must have been done in order for this story to have reached its conclusion.

A convoluted plot

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I was very distracted by the abundant use of qualifying adverbs. The narrator was good and the story ok but I will avoid the author in future unless she or her editor reduce the constant adverbs. I am usually not a fussy grammarian.

Adverbs!!!

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Undiscovered series by one of my favourite writers 🙂
Was drawn immediately into the scenario ……characters and their personalities.
The murder was a tricky one to figure out and the suspects entered and left the frame .
Thoroughly enjoyed this mystery and just stated No 2 in the series .

Loved it !

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