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  • Dead in the Water

  • A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery, Book 6
  • By: Carola Dunn
  • Narrated by: Mia Chiaromonte
  • Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (434 ratings)
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Dead in the Water

By: Carola Dunn
Narrated by: Mia Chiaromonte
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Summary

May the best man die!

In July of 1923, the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple travels to Henley-on-Thames to visit her aunt and uncle, as well as to work on her latest writing assignment: covering the Henley Royal Regatta for an American magazine.

Daisy plans a simple trip researching her article, enjoying the races, and, come the weekend, having a pleasant time with her fiancé, Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard. But the tensions between the Ambrose team's coxswain, Horace Bott - a shopkeeper's son and scholarship student at Oxford - and rower Basil DeLancey - the younger son of an earl and all-around bounder - are constantly threatening to erupt into violence.

The day after losing a race thanks to Bott's overindulgence the night before, DeLancey keels over and dies mid-race. Foul play is immediately suspected, with Bott the logical suspect. But nothing is obvious in this tangled web of jealousies and secrets, and while Inspector Fletcher investigates the murder, Daisy once again must ferret out the truth.

©2011 Carola Dunn (P)2014 Blackstone Audio

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Awful narration

This story is completely ruined by the awful narration. Not only is the voice annoying, because of the accent, but there is little distinction between characters. Worse still is the appalling pronunciation. If someone can’t pronounce Gloucestershire they have no place reading an audio book. Audible need to listen to these books before they put them out for customers to pay good money for. Obviously their quality control is nonexistent.

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Narrator is awful

The narrator really needs to learn how to pronounce British place names, events etc as the way she mangled them is atrocious. Do a little research, it’s not difficult

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Dreadful Narrator

The story itself lived up to Daisy Dalrymple standards but the narrator was a bad choice. She was appalling! She just about got the English accent right, when it didn’t drift into Australian or back to her native American. The big problem was her legion of mispronunciations - not just place names which sometimes even puzzle we Brits. Most frustratingly she’d pronounce a word correctly in one sentence, then mispronounce it further on. It spoiled my enjoyment of the book. Such a shame, though probably not noticeable by anyone other than someone for whom British English is their first language.;

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Teeth grindingly awful narration

I quite like the lightweight Daisy Dalrymple stories but this one takes the biscuit for the most awful English narration. It sounds like someone who usually uses American English putting on a British English accent, but that is not the real issue. I can understand why in a story about Henley and rowing that Remenham could be mispronounced by those not familiar with the major sporting event held there, but Gloucester, regatta and plebeian also all get murdered at least once before the first body is found. And if anyone from the publishers is reading this the position in a boat called bow rhymes with how not hoe.

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Classic whodunnit with annoying narrator

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

The story is a classic whodunnit, I enjoyed the story in itself.
But the narrator is extremely annoying. She sounds like a southern belle trying her hand at posh english... it's pronounced "Buckinghamsher" and "Glostur" - not "Buckinghamshayer" and "Glouwstehr"... argh
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Who was your favorite character and why?

I rather like Daisy, I think I'd inviter her to tea, if she existed :-)

Would you be willing to try another one of Mia Chiaromonte’s performances?

no... I think I'll read another Daisy Dalrymple myself...

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Good story, awful narrator

The producer shares some blame for the awful narration. A little research on the correct pronunciation would have been beneficial. Intermittent success by an American narrator attempting an English accent, slipping into other indistinguishable accents mid sentence. Voices assigned to characters were inconsistent and often bizarre. Frequent mispronunciation of not uncommon words was very distracting. The story itself is lightweight but engaging.

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Great story ruined by narrator

Great story as ever, and equally as ever it’s ruined by the appalling narrator’s pronunciation. There’s NO excuse, the narrator clearly just didn’t bother to do even the most basic research into how British people talk!!!

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Strange pronunciation

Story was ok, but performance was spoilt but the pronunciation of certain words, especially of the English counties. Quite puts one off.

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appalling pronunciation

This is the worst narration yet. American trying to sound English and not succeeding. Accent terrible. Some words incomprehensible. Dook of Glowster worst but LOADS more.

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Opportunity missed?

Thoroughly enjoyable, really enjoying this series.

However I do feel like the author missed an opportunity in this book to capitalize on the different ways in which people cope or don't cope with the horrors of war. She touched on it a number of times and there was an opportunity for the two lead characters to have a good conversation about it, but it seems that when things got too sticky she veered away.

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