Anthem for Doomed Youth, Carola Dunn
Anthem for Doomed Youth, Carola Dunn
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Anthem for Doomed Youth
A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery

Author: Carola Dunn

Narrator: Lucy Rayner

Unabridged: 10 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/26/2017

Synopsis

In the Spring of 1926, the corpses of three men are found in shallow graves off the beaten path in Epping Forest outside of London—each shot through the heart and bearing no identification. DCI Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard, the lead detective, is immediately given two urgent orders by his supervisor at the Yard: solve the murders quickly and keep his wife, the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, away from the case! Thankfully, Daisy’s off visiting their daughter at school. But when a teacher is found dead, Daisy is once again in the thick of it. As Daisy tries to solve one murder, Alec discovers that the three victims in his case were in the same Army company during World War I, that their murders are likely related to specific events that unfolded during that tragic conflict, and that, unless the killer is revealed and stopped, those three might only be the beginning.

About Carola Dunn

Carola Dunn is the author of several series of novels, including Regency romances, the Daisy Dalrymple mysteries, the Cornish mysteries, and more than two dozen stand-alone novels.

About Lucy Rayner

Lucy Rayner is an award-winning British actress. Bitten hard by the acting bug whilst performing at the Edinburgh Festival as a teenager, she has gone on to work on both sides of the Atlantic in a number of theater productions and films, many of which have screened at festivals around the world. She loves to tell stories and voice characters in a number of British regional accents and has narrated many wonderful audiobooks. She has a master's degree in history from the University of Edinburgh and is a graduate of the Lee Strasberg Institute in New York City.

Reviews

Goodreads review by FangirlNation on January 05, 2018

Carola Dunn returns with a particularly strong entry in her Daisy Dalrymple series in Anthem for Doomed Youth. Eight years after the Armistice that brought to a close the First World War, implications from that arise again in one of Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher's more grisly cases. He get......more

Goodreads review by Susan on August 07, 2024

When police find three bodies buried in Epping Forest, Alec Fletcher is called in from Scotland Yard. That means his wife Daisy must go to visit daughter Belinda's school without him. In a way, that's a relief--Daisy has an almost supernatural way of becoming involved in his cases, and his boss does......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on October 30, 2012

Anthem for Doomed Youth, unlike previous Daisy Dalrymple books, is not set in a great country house. Instead, it focuses on Alec Fletcher's work solving a triple murder. In the meantime, Daisy has gone to Belinda's school to watch her stepdaughter's sports day, a nice, peaceful occupation that turns......more

Goodreads review by C.A. on April 19, 2011

One of the better ones in this good series finds Daisy taking a seemingly innocent holiday to visit daughter Bel at her boarding school for Sports Day while husband Alex of Scotland Yard deals with a nasty case of three bodies buried in a public park. Daisy being Daisy, she trips over a body soon en......more

Goodreads review by Gordon on July 29, 2019

The amazing thing about Daisy is that, like most English women of her age, she has been surrounded by tragedy during her young life. She has lost her brother, her father and her fiancé. Her bland, serene girlhood unfolds into unimaginable loss. By the time she goes to her step-daughter's school, she......more

Quotes

“Amusing and sprightly, and as evocative of the period as ever.” Kirkus Reviews

“Set in 1926, Dunn’s enjoyable nineteenth Daisy Dalrymple mystery…will please fans of traditional English whodunits.” Publishers Weekly

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