Lost Property
A Janie Juke Mystery, Book 2
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Narrated by:
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Bridget Eaton
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By:
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Isabella Muir
About this listen
When a stranger asks for your help how do you know what is really at stake?
Janie Juke has developed a reputation for finding missing people. When Hugh Furness asks Janie to track down an old friend, she discovers there is much more at stake than a missing person.
This new case takes Janie back in time to the Second World War, where she learns about secret missions and brave deeds. It is the past that holds the key, but she needs to be at her most intuitive to work out what lies behind the rumors and conjecture.
Following in the footsteps of Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot, Janie enlists the help of local journalist, Libby Frobisher. Racing around the seaside towns of Tamarisk Bay and Tidehaven, Janie and Libby track down clues and piece together the facts.
A new decade is looming. In these last months of the 1960s, time is against them. Hugh Furness is seriously ill and Janie is just months away from the birth of her first child.
Can Janie and Libby find out who is telling the truth before it is too late?
If you love Agatha Christie style twists and turns, or are a fan of Call the Midwife, Endeavour, Inspector George Gently and all those great 60s characters, then you will love this Sussex Crime series.
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- Teresa Welch
- 07-12-20
My. First Audio Book
This was a new experience for me but found the story captivating, whilst so relaxing to listen to.
Loved the narrators voice and her internation, characterising each person in the story.
Will definitely use audio again to listen to the next book in Isabella Muirs mysteries.
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- dobby_the_house_elf
- 19-07-20
Listened to non stop in one day!
Loved this - really well narrated, evocative time period. Put it on in the morning whilst doing chores and didn’t switch it off! Brilliant. Hope the narrator does the next book in the series too.
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Cosy
Lost Property by Isabella Muir, as crime books go, could only be described as cosy, but as it is self described by the author, who produced the audio book herself, as a book containing shocking secrets and a wartime romance, it fits her description aptly.
At first glance from my normal reviews, you would assume that this would be the last thing that I was reviewing. However, the PI underpinnings of the story and it’s Poirot aficionado librarian protagonist, Janie Juke, creates an unexpected role for a PI. Having not read the first book, though, I could not say how unusual it really is, as I don’t know how she came to undertake this role.
As the book is based in the 1960s, it allows for a less complicated look back at World War 2. If this was to be done now, the protagonist who instigated the mystery, would likely be dead, so it is a good choice to use the 60s as a backdrop, as it is closer to the war, which the book reflects on. There are a few little call backs to the period, such as the mention of the Beatles Abbey Road album.
PI protagonists can realistically come from anywhere and because they are not constrained by the rules that the police are, it allowed Isabella more freedom. This softer mystery contained a likely plot from the time, which gave the novel further credibility, although I must admit that personally it was just a little bit too cosy for me.
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