A Gingerbread House, Catriona McPherson
A Gingerbread House, Catriona McPherson
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A Gingerbread House

Author: Catriona McPherson

Narrator: Mhairi Morrison

Unabridged: 10 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/05/2021


Synopsis

When shy, lonely Ivy meets a woman who claims to be her long-lost sister, she knows it’s too good to be true. She decides to trust Kate anyway. She wants a family. She wants someone to love. But she’s making a mistake. When Ivy enters Kate’s fairytale cottage deep in the heart of Scotland, she doesn’t come out. She’s the first to go missing, and she won’t be the last. Meanwhile, in another part of the forest, Tash’s journey is just beginning… Multi-award-winning master of suspense Catriona McPherson is back with an ominous, twisty psychological thriller set in contemporary Scotland that will keep you on the edge of your seat.

About Catriona McPherson

Catriona McPherson is an award-winning mystery author as well as a former national president of Sisters in Crime. Born in Scotland, she immigrated to the United States in 2010. Her Dandy Gilver historical mystery series has won numerous awards, including two Agatha Awards. A proud member of Mystery Writers of America, she currently writes full-time in California.

About Mhairi Morrison

Mhairi Morrison is a trained actress and voiceover artist who received her bachelor's degree in theater from The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and her master's degree from Jacques Lecoq. The creator of the award-winning web series Feathers and Toast, she works extensively in voiceover and is the recipient of an Earphones Award.


Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Anne Marshall on 2021-10-06 13:13:43

A Gingerbread House by Catriona MacPherson is a strange tale of missing women. These women were taken, rather, walked into a trap, by the least suspected little woman ever. She convinced them to come to her. When she did, she trapped them in a cellar. February, March, May. April was evidently too careful to fall for it. Tash, on the other hand, had run away with evidence that her father's transport company was smuggling human cargo. Knowing that once she confronted him she might end up dead, she planted the information in places that would eventually be discovered. It was all there. She confronted him, but not before discovering it was worse than she thought: it was trafficking. He denied it, but of course he was guilty. She wanted to keep the company and bring it back into prosperity but was that possible? She ran with a meeting date that he would turn over the company to her, but she was not stupid. She made it so people would know she was missing so they would look for here. That was the problem with the missing women. They were loners, worked for themselves. No one cared, least of all the police. Their loves converge in the most interesting of ways. I listened to the audio version of this book and it was a very good job done by Mhairi Morrison who kept the women straight. She was low-key and undramatic, even at the most dramatic moments. She let the words speak for themselves. Tash was a very clever woman and played to her strengths. The women in the cellar lasted for months and there were plenty of hardships. The reasons for the kidnapping were not made clear until the very end, after Tash joined the others. It was a clever plot and paced perfectly. In the beginning the women's stories were introduced separately, with Tash interspersed, until they kind of came together, and it became all about Tash, until she joined them. It was interesting to see how strong these various women could be. They were not a type, but joined in that trait. I enjoyed listening to A Gingerbread House. I recommend it. I was invited to read a free e-ARC of the audio version of The Gingerbread House by Dreamscape Media through Netgalley. All thoughts and opinions are mine. #netgalley #dreamscapemedia #agingerbreadhouse #catrionamacpherson

Not an enjoyable reading experience. Difficult to follow the plot. Too many characters being introduced. Couldn’t sort out who was who. The pacing was too slow. With so many characters, it kept reverting back to introductions and character development so not much happened in the story to move it alo......more

This is one of those books that concerned me at first. My problem was Tash. I just didn’t understand her. It wasn’t that I necessarily disliked her, but for some reason, her character just seemed so…alien to me. Something about the way she spoke and the way she thought. I kept going, though, because......more