Murder at Gulls Nest

Name: Murder at Gulls Nest
Brand: Simon & Schuster Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Jess Kidd
ISBN: 9781797189031

Author: Jess Kidd

Narrator: Siobhan McSweeney

Unabridged: 9 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Published: 04/08/2025

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Cozy, Suspense & Thriller, Crime

Synopsis

From Jess Kidd, the bestselling author of Things in Jars who “is so good it isn’t fair” (Erika Swyler, nationally bestselling author), the first in a cozy mystery series about a former nun who searches for answers in a small seaside town after her pen pal mysteriously disappears.

I believe every one of us at Gulls Nest is concealing some kind of secret.

1954: When her former novice’s dependable letters stop, Nora Breen asks to be released from her vows. Haunted by a line in Frieda’s letter, Nora arrives at Gulls Nest, a charming hotel in Gore-on-Sea in Kent.

A seaside town, a place of fresh air and relaxed constraints, is the perfect place for a new start. Nora hides her identity and pries into the lives of her fellow guests. But when a series of bizarre murders rattles the occupants of Gulls Nest it’s time to ask if a dark past can ever really be left behind.

About Jess Kidd

Jess Kidd is the award-winning author of Murder at Gulls Nest, The Night Ship, Himself, Mr. Flood’s Last Resort, and Things in Jars. Learn more at JessKidd.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Holly on December 27, 2024

3,5 Stars I do enjoy a good cozy mystery and this one checked a lot of boxes! A seaside town is rattled when someone mysteriously dies at Gull's Nest Hotel. Nora Breen is a prior nun/nurse. She comes to investigate why her close friend has stopped writing to her. She is a big fan of detective novels......more

Goodreads review by Karen on March 27, 2025

I really enjoyed this fourth book that I have read by this author.. they all are very different. This book takes us to a coastal boardinghouse in an English seaside town. A nun who has left the order…goes undercover to find out what happened to her younger novice..Frieda, who had left the convent by o......more

Goodreads review by PattyMacDotComma on March 19, 2025

4★ “ ‘Miss Breen.’ Rideout looks exasperated.‘Really, must I say this until I’m blue in the face: leave this investigation to me!’ ‘So,’ says Nora. ‘It is an investigation.’ ” Detective Inspector Rideout is exasperated indeed. He first meets Nora Breen when she comes to the station to report her frien......more

Goodreads review by Will on May 14, 2025

This is a house that keeps her secrets well hidden. Her yew trees whisper together in their dour huddles and her windows reflect nothing more than the darkening sky.--------------------------------------Gulls Nest may be quiet but Nora does not feel at peace here. Who knows what dark thoughts......more

Quotes

"Siobhan McSweeney captures each nuance of this creepy yet moving mystery set in 1952 in a decaying English seaside town. Listeners meet Nora, who leaves a convent after 30 years to search for a young novice named Freda, whose letters to her have mysteriously stopped. The suspense begins as Nora moves into Freda’s boardinghouse, where residents include a retired puppeteer, a resentful cook, and a carnival worker. McSweeney sounds determined as Nora subtly observes and questions the odd and secretive residents, who have varied accents and post-WWII memories. After an unexpected murder, suave Inspector Rideout—at first, reluctantly; then, enthusiastically—partners with Nora. The atmospheric weather, scenic promenade, and gentle humor, including religious wordplay, keep listeners fully involved."