A Baffling Murder at the Midsummer Ba..., T E Kinsey
A Baffling Murder at the Midsummer Ba..., T E Kinsey
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A Baffling Murder at the Midsummer Ball

Author: T E Kinsey

Narrator: Simon Mattacks

Unabridged: 7 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/27/2021

Synopsis

A locked room. A mysterious death. Just another gig for the Dizzy Heights.When London’s finest jazz musicians, the Dizzy Heights, are booked to play the glitzy Midsummer Ball at a country house in Oxfordshire, they expect a weekend filled with flappers and toffs having a roaring good time.But the festivities at Bilverton House take a turn for the worse when the group are stranded by a summer storm. And when a member of the Bilverton family turns up dead in a locked room in an apparent suicide, Skins, Dunn and Ellie realise this is going to be a much tougher gig than they thought.But here’s the lick. What if it was in fact cold-blooded murder? And what if the killer is still at large? It’s up to the Dizzy Heights to once again put down their instruments and get improvising if they want to solve this confounding mystery.

About T E Kinsey

T E Kinsey grew up in London and read history at Bristol University. He worked for a number of years as a magazine features writer before falling into the glamorous world of the Internet, where he edited content for a very famous entertainment website for quite a few years more. After helping to raise three children, learning to scuba dive and to play the drums and mandolin (though never, disappointingly, all at the same time), he decided the time was right to get back to writing. A Baffling Murder at the Midsummer Ball is the second story in the Dizzy Heights series. His website is at www.tekinsey.uk and you can follow him on Twitter @tekinsey as well as on Facebook: www.facebook.com/tekinsey.

Reviews

Goodreads review by 8stitches 9lives on July 26, 2021

A Baffling Murder at the Midsummer Ball is the second instalment in The Dizzy Heights Mystery series set in 1925 Oxfordshire. The unstoppable, prominent jazz band known as the Dizzy Heights are back on the road performing concerts and touring when they are invited to the Bilverton Estate to play at......more

Goodreads review by Carolyn on October 01, 2022

A Baffling Murder 4 enthusiastic stars for T. E. Kinsey’s novel and a resounding 5 stars for Simon Mattack’s excellent and fun narration. This amateur sleuth murder mystery is pure fun to read or listen to—I did both and much preferred Mattack’s reading. He does a range of different English accents p......more

Goodreads review by Ivonne on September 30, 2021

No. 2 in the T.E. Kinsey’s spinoff series featuring London’s best jazz band proves even better than the debut. Ivor “Skins” Maloney and Batholomew “Barty” Dunn, leaders of the Dizzy Heights, come across a second murder mystery when a stern family patriarch dies following a party. The band is stuck a......more

Goodreads review by Elaine on July 16, 2021

I would like to thank Netgalley and Amazon Publishing UK for an advance copy of A Baffling Murder at the Midsummer Ball, the second novel to feature Ellie, Skins and Dunn of the Dizzy Heights jazz band. Summer 1925 and the band is engaged to play at Bilverston House in Oxfordshire. The event goes wel......more

Goodreads review by Gareth on December 27, 2021

Again, a really fun and enjoyable read, much like it's predecessor. In many ways it is very similar: it's a whodunnit, it's funny and most of the book it taken up with conversations between the characters - it's very talky. That said, the dynamics between the band members are a bit different and the......more

Quotes

“Listeners should hold on tight as narrator Simon Mattacks escorts them on a fast-paced journey with the Dizzy Heights jazz band as they play a gig at the elegant Bilverton House, where an upscale crowd partakes in the latest 1920s jiving. Mattacks accelerates the drama as a wild storm traps the band at the British estate, where the host is found dead.… Seamlessly and without hesitation, Mattacks clearly differentiates character voices.… This listen is a rollicking ride as Mattacks reveals how the band hits a high note while conducting a proper murder investigation.” —AudioFile Magazine

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