Gunpowder Plot, Carola Dunn
Gunpowder Plot, Carola Dunn
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Gunpowder Plot
A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery

Author: Carola Dunn

Narrator: Lucy Rayner

Unabridged: 8 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/07/2017

Synopsis

In the winter of 1924, Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher travels to a school friend’s house to witness the estate’s famous Guy Fawkes celebration. But she gets more than the quiet weekend at the quaint family manse that she was originally hoping for.The home is the site of some severe family tension. The Viscount and head of the family is a strict and unyielding sort, insisting that everyone—especially his children—meet his own unreasonable expectations. On the evening of the Guy Fawkes celebration, the Viscount is found dead on the floor of his study, killed by his own hand. What’s more, he apparently first killed a guest—a married woman visiting England from Australia—before turning the gun on himself.Now it’s up to Alec Fletcher, Daisy’s husband and a DCI of Scotland Yard, to unravel the mystery and the long-held family secrets that led to this state of affairs. But a solution will require, perhaps, more than a little help from Daisy herself.

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 Earphones Award–winning narrator and award-winning British actress. She has starred in numerous short and feature-length films, including English20 and Total Retribution. For her performance in Bolero, she was named Best Supporting Actress at the 2013 Madrid International Film Festival. She has worked 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 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 Jim on June 10, 2019

This is one of the best of the series. Again at a manor house, but the plot is twisty & the suspects are impossible to chose between. It all makes perfect sense in the end, a great one. Alec actually relies on Daisy quite a bit during this one, too. About time. As usual, the characters were excellen......more

Goodreads review by Victoria on September 27, 2017

What a horrific ending, but it felt fitting all the same.......more

Goodreads review by Susan on August 07, 2012

Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, largely pregnant, is visiting Edge Manor, at her friend Gwen's invitation, to write an article about the Guy Fawkes' Day celebration there, which has been celebrated for four hundred years. She finds Gwen's father, Sir Harold Tyndall, upset because his only son Jack wants t......more

Goodreads review by Karen on April 09, 2018

This was an absorbing mystery & had, as is proper, a surprising ending. One mother & her 2 boys, however, were so obnoxious & odious that I had trouble enjoying the parts that included their presence. There was the requisite happily resolved romance, & Daisy was entertaining in the cumbersome stage......more

Quotes

“Daisy exhibits her usual common sense and charm.” Publisher’s Weekly

“As always, Dunn evokes the life and times of 1920s England while providing a plot that is a cut above the average British cozy.” Booklist

“Fans of the dauntless Daisy will delight in this Anglophilic period mystery.” Kirkus Reviews

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