Murder at the Grand Hotel, Isabella Bassett
Murder at the Grand Hotel, Isabella Bassett
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Murder at the Grand Hotel

Author: Isabella Bassett

Narrator: Sandra Churchill

Unabridged: 5 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/26/2023


Synopsis

The French Riviera, 1925Disgraced society “it” girl, Lady Caroline, has been shipped off to the French Riviera to spend remedial time with gout-impaired Uncle Albert. Her crime? An ill-advised scavenger hunt through London, with social-status-ruinous consequences.Now, instead of pinching police helmets, this Bright Young Thing is pursuing her uncle’s latest hobby along the rocky cliffs of the Cote d’Azur.But all is not misery in Lady Caroline’s life. Murder brightens up what could otherwise be a terribly dull existence. First, a well-connected seductress is poisoned at the roulette table, then the Riviera’s preeminent villa architect slips off the bluffs into the turquoise Mediterranean Sea idling below.As the bodies mount, the local police suspect someone is boosting their way up the social ladder through nefarious means.Lady Caroline has a different idea. Always up for a good scavenger hunt, she can’t resist following the trail of clues to the killer.Murder at the Grand Hotel is Book 1 of the Lady Caroline Murder Mysteries series. In the glamorous world of 1920s Europe, money and privilege rub shoulders, and greed, envy, and murder are never far behind. Follow Lady Caroline, intelligent and witty, with a fondness for breaking rules, on a fun romp through the golden age of murder mysteries. Each book contains the requisite eccentric characters, fun historical tidbits, and puzzling murders with no gore or gloom.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Elizabeth on January 25, 2023

As soon as I read the line ‘a woman in possession of a good fortune would be ill advised to share it with a man’, I knew I’d love this book. It’s a comforting cosy 1920s mystery set in the French Riviera. The mystery was very well plotted and written. For me, the characters lacked chemistry (not jus......more

Goodreads review by Linniegayl on March 17, 2024

This is the first in the Lady Caroline historical mystery series set in the 1920s. Lady Caroline is an independent woman from an excellent family (after all, she is a "Lady") who mother is distraught over some of Caroline's actions. Caroline has no intention of getting married to some suitable, bori......more

Goodreads review by Michele on January 08, 2024

This book was okay. It was told in first person, which doesn't normally bother me. But Caroline's voice is somewhat annoying. Also, I don't know why the author was so attached to super long names, but it felt like every other character had a name of either 5 syllables or was hyphenated. The murder m......more