Summer of Secrets, Cora Harrison
Summer of Secrets, Cora Harrison
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Summer of Secrets

Author: Cora Harrison

Narrator: Mark Meadows

Unabridged: 8 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/22/2022

Synopsis

When a murder is staged at magnificent Knebworth House, Victorian writer-sleuths Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins investigate.August, 1856. Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens are spending the summer at Knebworth House, the magnificent Hertfordshire home of fellow writer Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton, where they are putting on a charity performance of one of Lord Edward's most successful plays, The Lady of Lyons. But the dress rehearsal is disrupted by the discovery of a body lying in the center of the stage, shot to death.With everyone involved in the play coming under suspicion, the two writer-sleuths feel compelled to investigate. Their enquiries unearth a number of scandalous secrets lurking among the writers, artists, and actors assembled at Knebworth. Secrets that stretch back more than twenty years. Secrets that will have devastating repercussions for the present.

About Cora Harrison

Cora Harrison worked as a teacher before she decided to write her first novel, and she has since published over two dozen children’s historical novels and many books for adults. She lives on a farm in the west of Ireland.

About Mark Meadows

Mark Meadows is an experienced narrator and actor who has narrated over 100 audiobooks. His works include the 2013 Man Booker Prize winner The Luminaries as well as voice work for Ridley Scott's Prometheus. In addition to his extensive theater, film, and television credits, he frequently contributes to plays, musicals, and readings for BBC Radio 3 and 4.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Susan on January 30, 2021

1856 Collins and Dickens are guests of Dickens' friend Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton at his home, Knebworth House, where they are presenting a play for charity. The peace is disturbed by his estranged wife, Lady Rosina. But soon Collins and Dickens find themselves investigating a murder. But who was the......more

Goodreads review by Nathan on March 10, 2021

One of the things that this book provides the reader (and the characters), is truth, but it is not a pleasant truth, nor is it truth accompanied by justice or love or any other finer feeling. As such, this book feels rather unsatisfying. As a reader who comes to this book without a great deal of fam......more

Goodreads review by Kelly on February 07, 2025

Having recently finished winter of despair in this series I’m beginning to see an unhealthy trait. In the last book it looked like Wilkies brother Charley may have been the murderer, so Wilkie and Dickens tried to cover it up. The same occurred in this book too but this time it was Nelly Ternan. The......more

Goodreads review by Melissa on March 13, 2021

Cora Harrison takes an interesting theory about the author Charles Dickens and turns it into a clever whodunnit with Wilkie Collins as its narrator. The novel, set at the country home of Lord Bulwer-Lytton, brings a host of historical writers, illustrators, and playwrights together to relax and prod......more

Goodreads review by MEF on July 05, 2024

This was a quirky read for me, presenting THE Charles Dickens as a fellow country house guest with his young author friend Wilkie Collins ( The Woman in White). Wilkie actually narrates the story. I liked the writing style, characterisations, Dickens’s superior intellect and occasional pomposity, Wil......more

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“An entertaining new entry in Harrison’s enjoyable series starring fictional recreations of the two famous authors, with subtle humor…skullduggery, larger-than-life characters, a clever plot, and a satisfying ending.” Booklist

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