Daisy is always a guaranteed winner!

Daisy does it again and as the main characters develope my joy increases. Another mystery and another delightful few days in their company. The only fleeting shadows for me are with Dunnes narration. I love her voices and if you've never spent time in the UK you will love it, however, the 'posh' accent attempts produce some weird pronunciations but it does get better towards the end. I'd still buy these books with the same narrator would suggest you listen to a sample first.

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Terrible narration

A mediocre story with terrible narration. Why have an American reader who has no idea of English pronunciation or accents?

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Shame about the narration.

The story is set in aristocratic England in the 1920s and the narrator should have a cut glass English accent. Unfortunately the narrator is American. She tries to get it right, but fails. It really irritates.

Perhaps an English narrator next time?

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Pronunciations will make you cringe

A pleasing story ruined by awful reading , such a shame . Makes it hard to listen to

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Highly entertaining

These books are gentle detective stories perfect for light listening when working in the garden or around the house .

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Oh why oh why an American narrator?

The narrator's accents are dire, almost too bad to listen to. She's obviously never even heard a Welsh accent. Imagine Dick van Dyke doing Welsh.

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Good story, but needs a different narrator

A good murder mystery of the cosy, "Golden Age" style, but the choice of narrator was misguided. I'm not sure of her actual nationality, but she sounded American, and she had a very odd way with the English accents she was required to produce. Especially the (mostly) upper-class accents. She seems to think that in every word like "gather", "gladly", "gas", etc., the vowel sound was the long a (like the a sound in "garden"). It becomes a little distracting -- or distrahhhcting. ;)

She reads well, but I think she would be better suited to American audiobooks. Someone like Cornelius Garett (narrator of the wonderful Inspector Wilkins country-house-murder-mystery novels) would have been a better choice, or as the protagonist is female, Penelope Keith.

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Terrible narration!!!!

So first off let me say I LOVE the Daisy books! Having read and thoroughly enjoyed the hard copies a few years ago, I was delighted when I found the audiobooks. With well written and amusing characters, and a gripping, exciting plot, this audiobook should have made for a fun, light-hearted, and easy-going listen....

However, why Audible cast this narrator to read this particular book I have no idea. I can only assume she may be somehow related to the author as they have very similar surnames. She reads this book with some attempt at an upper-class British accent, which is anything but successful. Her own American/ Canadian accent is highly prominent, yet combined with her mispronunciation and strangulation of vowels, the entire narration is extremely irritating, and distracts from the book itself. Her attempt at any kind of dialect (in particular the Welsh) is diabolical, and intact made me stop listening halfway through and remove the audiobook from my library.

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difficult to listen to

I liked the story and hated the American narration. Plus, please get place names correct.

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Ok story but the narrator is not brilliant

Story was ok, considering I listened for free but the narrator is not brilliant and would hazard a guess only is reading the book as related to the author

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