Listen free for 30 days

Listen with offer

Preview
  • The Cemetery Yew

  • A Martha's Vineyard Mystery
  • By: Cynthia Riggs
  • Narrated by: Davina Porter
  • Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (30 ratings)

£0.00 for first 30 days

Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

The Cemetery Yew

By: Cynthia Riggs
Narrated by: Davina Porter
Try for £0.00

£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £15.99

Buy Now for £15.99

Pay using card ending in
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.

Summary

There's more than one reason why the new West Tisbury police chief officially made 92-year-old Victoria Trumbull her deputy. For one thing, Victoria knows just about everything about everyone in Martha's Vineyard, not to mention their ancestors. She may be 92, but she is as sharp and as sharp-eyed as the proverbial tack. So when Victoria is the only one who spots something amiss among the gravestones of the West Tisbury cemetery, it's no surprise that the police chief listens.

Something is indeed amiss. A request comes from presumed relatives in the Midwest to disinter a coffin for reburying elsewhere. Things go wrong from there. When, as a last measure, the coffin is found, dug up, and opened, it does not contain the expected body. Then the coffin itself disappears.

Mysterious island: don't miss more in the Martha's Vineyard series from Cynthia Riggs.
©2003 Cynthia Riggs (P)2006 Blackstone Audio Inc.
activate_Holiday_promo_in_buybox_DT_T2

Listeners also enjoyed...

Deadly Nightshade cover art
The Tightrope Walker cover art
The Clairvoyant Countess cover art
Dragon Weather: Obsidian Chronicles cover art
Beauty and the Clockwork Beast cover art
The Sixth Victim cover art
Devil May Care cover art
For Whom the Book Tolls cover art
Memory Guild, Books 1-3 cover art
The Delving cover art
If I See You Again Tomorrow cover art
Strays cover art
The Four Kingdoms Box Set 1 cover art
Sara's Song cover art
Redemption Key cover art
The Gold-Son cover art

Critic reviews

"With patience and charm, the down-to-earth Victoria succeeds in drawing out confidences. In the end, even she is surprised." (Publishers Weekly)
"Can a 92-year-old protagonist engage readers of all ages? Definitely....As satisfying as a steaming bowl of chowder on a cold New England evening." (Booklist)

What listeners say about The Cemetery Yew

Average customer ratings
Overall
  • 4 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    17
  • 4 Stars
    5
  • 3 Stars
    3
  • 2 Stars
    3
  • 1 Stars
    2
Performance
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    19
  • 4 Stars
    1
  • 3 Stars
    3
  • 2 Stars
    1
  • 1 Stars
    2
Story
  • 4 out of 5 stars
  • 5 Stars
    16
  • 4 Stars
    5
  • 3 Stars
    2
  • 2 Stars
    1
  • 1 Stars
    3

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.

Sort by:
Filter by:
  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

Brilliant to the end!

the story's always keep me guessing and somehow this brilliant author always gets a twist in at the end.

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

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

wonderfully told tale!

very good, twisty and knowledgeable tale. only .niggle being, s an older lady, not as old as Victoria though, I know I could never do all the characters did, nor keep pace mentally with all the mayhem abd murder, not to mention pets! but then I'm only a youngster in comparison!

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

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

1 person found this helpful

  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    5 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    5 out of 5 stars

always great story

always enjoy listening to these series of mystery stories
Love the main characters.
and the style of narration.
second time of listioning for me and still enjoyable .would recommend.

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

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!

  • Overall
    1 out of 5 stars
  • Performance
    1 out of 5 stars
  • Story
    1 out of 5 stars

not good

Weird narration, not at all easy to listen to and which became grating after just a few minutes. A storyline that took forever to get going. Couldn't finish it, listened to 2 chapters before giving up. Didn't care about characters or who/why/what, although story was so slow, I never actually got to the "what".

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

You voted on this review!

You reported this review!