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Anthem for Doomed Youth

A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery

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Anthem for Doomed Youth

By: Carola Dunn
Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
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In the Spring of 1926, the corpses of three men are found in shallow graves off the beaten path in Epping Forest outside of London - each shot through the heart and bearing no identification. DCI Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard, the lead detective, is immediately given two urgent orders by his supervisor at the Yard: solve the murders quickly and keep his wife, the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, away from the case! Thankfully, Daisy's off visiting their daughter at school. But when a teacher is found dead, Daisy is once again in the thick of it.

As Daisy tries to solve one murder, Alec discovers that the three victims in his case were in the same Army company during World War I, that their murders are likely related to specific events that unfolded during that tragic conflict, and that, unless the killer is revealed and stopped, those three might only be the beginning.

©2011 Carola Dunn (P)2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Detective Fiction Historical Mystery Traditional Detectives Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Crime Heartfelt Murder Cosy

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Loved this just as much as the others on the series. But the pronunciation of Harwich as Harrrrrwedge was irritating! It is pronounced as Hahridge.

Enjoyable all the same as my mother lived in saffron Walden for 23 years and I can picture it all.

Another excellent story.

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I continue to enjoy these stories and the narration. I recommend this series of cozy mysteries

5 star story and narration

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This is another terrific mystery, within a mystery. With lots of fun and laughs along the way as Daisy out wits the local police. Read brilliantly again by Lucy Rayner.

Anthem for Doomed Youth

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I love these books, I have so much injoyment out off them, I can't stop listening to them

lovely

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Well written, well narrated, a pleasure to listen to. Would recommend to all and sundry.

Excellent As

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Love these stories harking for a different, quainter time but I do wish your lovely reader would check English pronunciation of place names e.g. Harwich. Generally, the pronunciation had been improving.

Pronunciation

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I agree that the narrator has some weird habits when it comes to the odd pronunciation, and the editor should really pick up on this, but out of the three who narrate this series Lucy Rayner is the only one I can stand listening to for more than a minute. I can tell every character apart easily.

The story is both typically Daisy, but different because of the lack of time she spends with Alec. Although the characterisation is sometimes fairly simplistic (as is genre typical of cosy crime) some of the repeat personalities are now fairly established and easy to visualise. The story moved at a decent pace and makes for a comfortable listen.

Different to usual but still good

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Again very well read. Good story line. Familiar characters return. Grumpy DI included! Great

Another great Daisy Dalrymple

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Very much enjoy the gentle twists of Carola Dunn but really do wish someone would pick Lucy Rayner up on her pronunciation. Her epic gaffs are like fingers down a blackboard and seem to get worse the further through the series I go

Gentle escapism

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I really enjoyed this one, but found the subject matter very moving and a little difficult at times. I was particularly pleased to see the historical note included at the end.
As with other Daisy Dalrymple audiobooks though, I found the narration far too slow. This was solved very easily by speeding it up. I listened to it at 1.4.

I really enjoyed this one.

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