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  • Deadly Scandal

  • The Deadly Series, Book 1
  • By: Kate Parker
  • Narrated by: Henrietta Meire
  • Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (24 ratings)
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Deadly Scandal

By: Kate Parker
Narrated by: Henrietta Meire
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Summary

Olivia Denis is a content young wife with a carefree life in late 1930s London. Then her world is shattered with the violent death of her husband, Reggie. The police want to call it a suicide and close the case, but Olivia knows Reggie couldn't possibly have fired the fatal shot. Further mysteries surface surrounding her husband's death. Did the trustworthy Foreign Office employee betray government secrets? Was his murder linked to the death of a German embassy clerk the same night? And who searched their flat? Her desire for answers and her need to support herself cause her to break away from the pampered life she's known and take a job. But with the much-needed paycheck as a society reporter for a newspaper comes a secret secondary assignment - one that involves her in the increasingly dangerous world of European politics as the continent slides toward war.

©2016 Kate Parker (P)2017 Tantor

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English proof reader required

If this book wasn’t for you, who do you think might enjoy it more?

I found the character in this book so naive and stupid it was beyond belief.
The narratives male voices need working on but otherwise she performed well.
I also think that if this book was proof read it should be done by an English person, not American, we do not travel by 'blocks' and certainly we did not in the pre war days, just one of the fopars made.

Would you ever listen to anything by Kate Parker again?

No

Did the narration match the pace of the story?

Narrator was good, just needs to work on male voices a bit more, but other wise very well done

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Deadly Scandal?

All of them

Any additional comments?

Americans writing about period English people need to do more home work

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In back, gotten, sidewalks and worst of all blocks.

The author has a scant concept of English as spoken by the British as opposed to the American version. It was however good for a laugh. I’d like to see anyone walk five blocks in London, it doesn’t work! The narrator was as bad. Corps in not pronounced like a dead body. Auburn is au as in autumn, not Oban as in the Scottish town. The fits of laughter did, sadly, ruin the suspense. Was there no one literate to edit the text?
Could have been good.

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a good whodunit

a story with several twists and murders set just before WW2. the reader has a very pleasant voice and, unlike a lot of people, can do upper class English accents. unfortunately she's not a good reader, there are odd pauses so the story doesn't flow as easily as it should.

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Jarring narration

I am sure this could have been a great story, but the narration was emotionless and had some strange voice choices and accents. At t times it felt no preparation had been done for narration with incorrect pronunciation, gaps in text at inappropriate moments. Sorry but the jarring narration intruded badly.

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Not English I am afraid

The storyline was harmless and enjoyable but the unfamiliarity with English as it is spoken here jarred and meant I could not become lost in the narrative.

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