The Cemetery Yew, Cynthia Riggs
The Cemetery Yew, Cynthia Riggs
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The Cemetery Yew
A Marthas Vineyard Mystery

Author: Cynthia Riggs

Narrator: Davina Porter

Unabridged: 7 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2006


Synopsis

Victoria Trumbull may be ninetytwo, but she is as sharp as the proverbial tack. So when she is the only one to spot something amiss in the town cemetery, the police chief listens. Something is indeed amiss. First comes a request to disinter a coffin for reburying elsewhere. Then things go wrong from there.

About Cynthia Riggs

Cynthia Riggs, a thirteenth-generation Islander, lives on Martha’s Vineyard in her family homestead, now a bed-and-breakfast catering to poets and writers. She has a degree in geology from Antioch College, an MFA in creative writing from Vermont College, and a US Coast Guard masters license.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kathy on August 02, 2021

I wanted to try one of the 14 books of this series set on Martha's Vineyard as it is still summer and one likes to think of the Vineyard and/or the Cape at this time of year. I listened to this author's talk broadcast on Moth, [URL not allowed], and I was totally charmed by he......more

Goodreads review by Una on March 24, 2015

A fun cemetery mystery with twists and turns and nice, quirky characters.......more

Goodreads review by Lis on January 15, 2014

Life on the Vinyard ought to be quiet, but somehow things don't work out that way. West Tisbury is home to Victoria Trumbull, 92 years old, not as physically agile as she used to be, but mentally scarily sharp--and she knows nearly everyone, or at least their families and the family history. That's......more

Goodreads review by Jay on May 12, 2014

This is an engaging mystery with an unlikely protagonist, delightfully read by Davina Porter.......more

Goodreads review by Judy on April 21, 2013

Who wouldn't be enchanted with Victoria Trumbull? She is 92 years old, she is a deputy in the West Tisbury Police Department on Martha's Vineyard, and she is sharp as a tack. Victoria knows just about everyone in town and remembers all of the skeltons in their family closets. In this third in the se......more