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  • Death & Sensibility

  • A Jane Austen Society Mystery, Book 2
  • By: Elizabeth Blake
  • Narrated by: Justine Eyre
  • Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (7 ratings)

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Death & Sensibility

By: Elizabeth Blake
Narrated by: Justine Eyre
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Summary

When the quaint English town of York hosts a Jane Austen Society conference, bookseller Erin Coleridge is glad to get out of Kirkbymoorside for a while—until featured speaker Barry Wolf suddenly perishes from what appears to be a heart attack.

Erin is suspicious, since Barry had no history of heart disease. But who did him in? Was it the decedent's assistant, Stephen, who was observed chatting to Barry's young wife Luca earlier that night? Might it have been Barry's ex-wife Judith, who was seen arguing with her erstwhile betrothed at the bar? Meanwhile, conference co-chairs Hetty and Prudence have been at one another's throat since the conference. Is one of them the culprit?

Matters of the heart are putting Erin off her guard. Both Detective Inspector Peter Hemming and schoolteacher Jonathan Alder have made gestures of romantic interest, but Erin isn't sure who is her Willoughby and who is her Colonel Brandon. DI Hemming tries to persuade Erin that her entanglement in the murder investigation is far from sensible, but his entreaties come to naught. Dauntlessly, Erin joins forces with Kirkbymoorside's cat lady, Farnsworth, to ferret out the guilty party.

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A decent listen

NARRATION: The narrator has some annoying inflections at the end of most sentences which can become quite irritating sometimes (“river” is “rivaaa”). Also, there is a Senegalese and a Jamaican character and the narrator decided to give them an Indian accent for some reason. It was very disturbing.

STORY: In short, the keynote speaker dies at the conference Erin and her friends are attending and organising. Erin believes it is a murder and decides to find the killer.

Erin is EXTREMELY nosy in this book, which made her not as sympathetic as in the previous one. She meddles in everyone’s business and she could sometimes be very judgemental, even towards her friends. Her being such a busybody was quite infuriating sometimes.

Set in York, the whole story unfolds for the most part in the hotel lobby and its bar, which was a bit disappointing. There were instead lots of scenes at said bar with all the characters saying at least at some point “Next round is on me” (all of this with many cocktail and food descriptions) which overall felt a bit repetitive.

The descriptions however were very well done and I was immediately immersed in the scenery and with the characters. A nice little listen with a cute story.

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