Black Jade
A Daiyu Wu Mystery (Daiyu Wu Mysteries, Book 1)
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Narrated by:
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Tom Briggs
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By:
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Gloria Oliver
About this listen
A curious lack of corpses. A slew of snobbish suspects. Can this sightless amateur sleuth pinpoint a killer?
Dallas, TX, 1930. Daiyu Wu refuses to be disadvantaged by her blindness. Navigating the world with help from her faithful companions, the young Chinese adventuress celebrates life with a strong thirst for knowledge. So when she scents burned garlic in a customer’s garment, the clever laundress runs an experiment that reveals a dress doused in arsenic.
Determined to provide the unaware authorities with a clue in a murder case, Daiyu vows to chase down the garment’s mysterious origins even though there’s no body to be found. But as the links lead the immigrant girl higher into Texas’s social echelons, she clashes with bigotry, short-sightedness, and a web of lies hamstringing her ability to investigate.
Can she find fresh evidence before she’s hung out to dry?
Black Jade is the playful first book in the Daiyu Wu Mysteries cozy historical series. If you like witty heroines, clever twists, and feisty canines, then you’ll love Gloria Oliver’s period puzzle.
Buy Black Jade to pit instinct against old money today!
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Kevin Cannon
- 22-09-23
Good Murder Mystery
A ballgown infused with poison is left at Daiyu's laundry and she suspects it has been used for murder.
Despite being blind and Chinese in 1930's Texas, Dai teams up with her companion Jacques and her terrier to solve the case
An well crafted murder mystery with a couple of interesting sleuths which highlights the situation faced by a member of the 'Yellow Terror' in an era loaded with racism and distrust.
My only snag with this one was the narrator. Sounding like a mix of Rocky era Sylvester Stallone and a 1920's Chicago mob boss, I had a few difficulties with the accent and the tone
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Christy D
- 20-10-22
Black Jade
What a fantastic story! I loved the era the story was written in the very detailed descriptions the cast of characters and just how wonderful this young lady was! The trials her family suffered would have truly been great. The location chosen for the backdrop was also quite wonderful and unique most would have written this somewhere in California.
My only criticism is in the narration the the narrator did not have a sound room and their is not a crisp narration. And in the beginning I didn’t like him for the part. I come to realize he was telling the story from the prospective of the young man and it made it easier to deal with. Perhaps that was what the wanted it to be so it fit the period?
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- Siobhan D
- 23-10-22
mystery
loved the narration of Tom Briggs
Daiyu Wu is Chinese, observant and very intelligent and blind, things that makes her an outsider in 1930s.
A murderer would have gotten away with it, if the enhanced senses of Daiyu Wu and not smelt burnt garlic, an odour associated with arsenic, in one of the garments left at her family's laundry. An in a quest to bring the murderer to justice, Dai has some interesting friends.
This book is well paced and full of action,
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- Kindle Customer
- 17-11-22
okay
The story was told from a secondary character and not the main female character, Dai, who was blind. I couldn't connect to Dai. I believe the author should have done a dual pov.
I did like the era the author chose to bring alive her story, and I liked that she picked a different ethnic group for her main character. it made the story more interesting.
would I read/listen to the next book? I don't know.
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