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    Murder at the Lighthouse
    Murder at the Lighthouse
    Murder at the Lighthouse
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    Murder at the Lighthouse

    Written by Frances Evesham

    Narrated by Jennifer M. Dixon

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    Everyone knows the dead woman under the lighthouse, but no one seems to know why she died. What brought the folk-rock star back to Exham on Sea after so many years? Who wanted her dead? Does the key to her murder lie in the town, or far away across the Atlantic?

    Libby Forest arrives in Exham to build a new life making cakes and chocolates, and discovers a talent for solving mysteries, helped by Bear, an enormous Carpathian Sheepdog, and a cast of local characters.

    The green fields, rolling hills and sandy beaches of England's West Country provide a perfect setting for crime, intrigue and mystery.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateDec 5, 2017
    ISBN9781541488519
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    Frances Evesham

    Frances Evesham is the bestselling author of the hugely successful Exham-on-Sea murder mysteries set in her home county of Somerset, and the Ham-Hill cosy crime series set in South Somerset.

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    • 5/5
      I loved this story!! Great characters and an excellent story!

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    • 5/5
      Very short, throughly enjoyable start to a series. Will definitely continue!

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    • 5/5
      Great series, looking forward to more in the series. This one was the best so far
    • 2/5
      I found the narration very flat and the characters very simplistic.
      In addition there was a very unnecessary mills and boon type romantic thread.
    • 4/5
      A pleasant listen in the first of a series by Francis Evesham. The narrator takes a little getting used to but you do get lost in the characters and it does make you want to listen to the next chapter
    • 5/5
      Wonderful, wonderful story. Narraters voice was clear with great expression. Such a pleasure to listen to. Can’t wait for the next one.
    • 3/5
      Quite an enjoyable, quick read, cozy mystery. Will read next in series.
    • 2/5
      The plot of this story is so lame, and one murder is not solved, almost as though the author forgot about it. The murderer only appears at the end and his character is undeveloped. And I did not care for the narrator.
    • 5/5
      Has you guessing to the very end!! Great adventure!
    • 3/5
      Libby Forest moves from London after her husband's death to the small seaside village of Exham. While walking her neighbor's dog on the beach, she discovers the body of woman who she later learns had been a village resident 20 years ago. The police decide that it was an accidental drowning but Libby isn't so sure. It was any okay mystery but it seem to just follow the normal pattern - find body, want to know more, get involved when you shouldn't. It didn't have any punch, no characters that really stood out.
    • 4/5
      I have been reading more and more cozy and historical mysteries of late, so I am always on the lookout for a new series to love. I believe I have found both an excellent author and series. I am really not a fan of those female sleuths who are just Nosey-Nellies. The ones that are in-you-face and expect anybody and everybody to answer their much too personal questions, while thumbing their noses at the inept police at the same time. I was so very happy to see this book didn’t follow that format. The writing is excellent, the mystery is well-plotted and excellently paced, and the characters are well-developed and very likable. I will definitely be reading more books in this series.After the death of her misanthropic husband (who she does not mourn), Libby Forest decides to leave London and move to the small Somerset village of Exham On Sea. In Exham she can have a job, write her cookbook, open a patisserie, and all of those many other things she wasn’t allowed to do while her husband, Trevor was alive. She’s loving her small cottage, her wonderfully re-done cook’s kitchen, and the new friends she has made in the village. All is right with her world – until she takes her neighbor’s dog for a walk on the beach and discovers a body …The victim is a former villager who had prospered in America. Nobody had seen her in over twenty years – why was she back now? Why did no one know she was here? When Detective Sergeant Joe Ramshore immediately decides it was an accident, Libby just can’t believe it. Something just isn’t right about all of it. The murder is the talk of the village and as Libby learns more about the woman who died, she wants to know even more. As she learns more, she’s convinced it was murder and begins to investigate even more. Then, there is a second death and again, Ramshore decides it was an accident. Given the circumstances, Libby is sure it wasn’t.During the investigation, we meet a lovely cast of characters. There is the handsome, mysterious Max Ramshore – estranged father of Detective Sergeant Ramshore. There is Fuzzy, the irascible marmalade cat who delights in NOT showing Libby any affection. Bear is a huge, lovable, usually good-natured Carpathian Sheepdog you’ll want to adopt. Of course, there is Frank the baker (and Libby’s boss), and Mandy the teenage Goth waitress at the bakery, and many others in the town. They are a delightful bunch and you’ll enjoy meeting them all.It was fun watching Libby unraveling the clues and solving a murder that had roots twenty years in the past. You can even feel a bit of sympathy for the perpetrator – at least for the first murder – and we are left to just assume that the same person committed both murders. I will definitely be reading other books in this series.
    • 4/5
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    • 3/5
      This is a pretty good mystery, as far as the plot goes.Unfortunately, neither the characters nor the setting really popped for me. They had a lot of promise! but just did not end up vivid- they were all more grayed out.Libby, in particular, didn't seem to have any center. Part of that was, I think, intentional; her life is undergoing a lot of serious shifts- but she tended to drift through her days, and the various aspects of her life simply did not make sense to me. She was a cipher, and that's usually not a good thing in a protagonist.And Max, her love interest, is also a cipher, but one that seems to have infinite resources for plot advancement when he bothers to use them.Another quibble: what small-town bakery has any need or money to hire a full-time recipe developer???It's not a bad book, and was an entertaining read- it just doesn't make much sense if you think about ut it.
    • 3/5
      This is a cute cozy mystery with the main character being a mature woman starting a new life in a small seaside town.While Libby is walking a dog along the beach she finds a dead body under the lighthouse. It's determined that it was Susie Bennett, a woman who lived there long ago but had gone to America to become a rock star. The police say it was suicide but Libby doesn't think so. In this mystery, Libby starts talking to the locals about Susie and coming up with more and more reasons why she doesn't think Susie killed herself. Too bad that people didn't think much of her ideas. Since she was new in town, she hadn't known the dead woman so they didn't think she knew what she was talking about. Little did they know that because she hadn't lived there all her life, she was in a better position to look at the facts objectively.