A Dark and Stormy Night, Jeanne M. Dams
A Dark and Stormy Night, Jeanne M. Dams
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A Dark and Stormy Night

Author: Jeanne M. Dams

Narrator: Kate Reading

Unabridged: 9 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/17/2023

Synopsis

Dorothy and her husband are invited by friends to Branston Abbey for a country house weekend. Thirteen other guests she hardly knows. A rambling Tudor mansion, full of secrets. What could possibly go wrong?A lovely dinner is just getting into its stride when a huge storm rolls in. The lights go out. And with no electricity or phone service, and cut off by flood waters, Dorothy feels like she’s stuck in an Agatha Christie mystery. A guest is found unconscious, another disappears, and there’s a horrifying discovery in one of the bedrooms.They are being picked off one by one. Can amateur sleuth Dorothy discover the culprit before anyone else dies?

About Jeanne M. Dams

Jeanne M. Dams, an American, is a devout Anglophile who has wished she could live in England ever since her first visit in 1963. Fortunately, her alter ego, Dorothy Martin, can do just that. Dorothy has featured in twenty-four previous novels. Jeanne lives in South Bend, Indiana.

About Kate Reading

Kate Reading, named an AudioFile Golden Voice, has recorded hundreds of audiobooks across many genres, over a thirty–year plus career and won the prestigious Audie Award for Best Narration. Among other awards, she has been recognized as an AudioFile Magazine Voice of the Century, Narrator of the Year, Best Voice in Science Fiction and Fantasy, and winner of an Publisher’s Weekly’s Listen-Up Award. She records at her home studio, Madison Productions, Inc., in Maryland.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ivonne

Author Jeanne M. Dams has written a valentine to those Golden Age house mysteries in which a motley crew is trapped in a stately home, cut off from civilization due to inclement weather, with a murderer. American ex-pat Dorothy Martin and her English husband Alan Nesbit, retired Chief Constable of t......more

Goodreads review by Mara

This honestly should be more like a 3 star if we were going by more objective standards (it was fine), but for my personal tastes, this is more like a 1.5. These are tropes I love that were practically ruined by how frustrating I found the authorial voice and how incessantly the American-ness of the......more

Goodreads review by Bev

I started off my 2013 reading with a fun, little cozy mystery by Jeanne M. Dams. Jeanne is from Indiana, just like me. And, like me, she has read British mysteries all her life and has an affinity for all things British. As she says in her bio on her web page: I knew it was unlikely I could ever aff......more

Quotes

“Fans of Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers will enjoy this very traditional British cozy, complete with an eccentric group of guests and some devoted servants.” Booklist

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