The Tale of Oat Cake Crag

Name: The Tale of Oat Cake Crag
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Susan Wittig Albert
ISBN: 9781461847908

Author: Susan Wittig Albert

Series: Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter #7

Narrator: Virginia Leishman

Unabridged: 9 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 11/25/2011

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective

Synopsis

Works by best-selling author Susan Wittig Albert have been nominated for the Agatha and Anthony awards. In The Tale of Oat Cake Crag, Miss Beatrix Potter is frustrated by distractions near her home. As the noisy test flights of a hydroplane disrupt her concentration, Beatrix investigates a string of bizarre letters threatening a friend's reputation. Then life becomes even more complicated when the body of the hydroplane project funder is found at the foot of Oat Cake Crag.

About Susan Wittig Albert

Susan Wittig Albert is the New York Times bestselling author of A Wilder Rose, about Rose Wilder Lane and the writing of the Little House books. Her award-winning fiction also includes mysteries in the China Bayles series, the Darling Dahlias, the Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter, and a series of Victorian-Edwardian mysteries she has written with her husband, Bill Albert, under the pseudonym of Robin Paige. She is founder and current president of the Story Circle Network and a member of the Texas Institute of Letters.

Reviews

Goodreads review by C. (Comment, never msg).

I hesitated two years to return to Susan Wittig Albert’s 2010 instalment, although I looked forward to it: “The Tale Of Oat Cake Crag”. I enjoy Beatrix Potter & Will Heelis as detectives. I love returning to Lake District, with which readers are made warmly familiar. I was glad she bypassed unnecess......more

Goodreads review by Andree

This is one of the ones in this series that didn't work for me. The author's narrative voice felt particularly intrusive in this one. The plot around the animals and the "flying machine" felt contrived. And the casual manipulation stemming from the Jeremy/Deirdre/Caroline "love triangle" felt annoyi......more