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Roses and Daisies and Death, Oh My!
- Daisy and Rose Mystery Series
- Narrated by: Kim Rossi
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
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Summary
Nothing ruins a peaceful morning walk like finding a blood-spattered body. And Daisy Greene and Rose Forrest, sisters and co-owners of Champagne Taste, really need a peaceful morning walk. They have enough on their minds already. Christmas is right around the corner, business is brisk, and their little antiques district of Old Towne is being plagued with petty thievery and vandalism. Murder is just not in the game plan.
If finding bodies lying around walking trails isn't enough to destroy a perfectly good day, Daisy's ex-husband, state trooper Bill Greene, shows up to investigate the murder. Nosy by nature anyway, Daisy takes Bill's presence as a challenge to find the murderer.
When Daisy and Rose start asking questions, things get hairier. Someone begins stalking them. Daisy receives threatening letters and is brutally attacked. Their determination grows when clues lead to a missing priceless diamond and the man Daisy is dating becomes the next victim.
With the help of their eccentric mother, Angela, and their hormonally exuberant dog, Malcolm, they follow the clues to catch a killer.
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- Julie
- 12-02-21
Nothing flowery about murder
I enjoyed this book. This is book number one in a fun cozy mystery series, that isn't to complicated but interesting enough to keep you listening until the end. I liked the unique hiding places that the author came with up and think hide and seek in her house must have been fun. The mystery was good but the clues were to obvious and despite the author trying to plant red herrings I did know who the killer was, okay maybe I didn't guess at the last hiding place of the diamond. Still a good listen and I liked the characters and I want to say the dog but some of his actions had me rolling my eyes instead of laughing. The mum is good for a chuckle though.
With a number of the small town shops having been broken into, sisters Daisy and Rose get an alarm system and a crazy dog to protect they shop and home. But instead of protecting them the dog leads them to a dead homeless man. Was he the one breaking into the shops and if so who killed him? If he wasn't why was he killed? The break ins themselves are strange nothing seems to be taken and it is more like someone is looking for something. With Daisy's cheating ex husband investigation the case, the pair decide if they want to stay safe and stop him from arresting the man showing an interest in Daisy then they will have look into the burglaries and the murder themselves. With Christmas right around the corner things are picking up in the shop, will they have enough time for some late night breaking and entering themselves? Teach there dog some manners? Go on a treasure hunt for a stolen diamond? Catch up on some light reading to unearth clues about the heist that set everything in motion? Catch a killer and have a party?
On the whole I liked the narrator but one of the characters was very annoying. I don't know if she was trying to give her an accent or what but she seemed to pause between each word when that character was talking. Otherwise she was fine.
I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
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- Norma Miles
- 13-02-21
"What once was lost."
Such an enjoyable book. Two sisters, Rose and Daisy, recent joint owners of a shop in an usually quiet area, are disturbed by a number of local break one and are given a smart but over enthusiastic dog by the quirky, semi alcoholic mother and together they all get drawn into crime solving. There's an ex husband there, too, and the hint of a microfinance to come, plus other assorted shop running characters, most of whom seem as scary as the central sisters. Silly, yes. Fun? Outstanding.
With so much of the story dependant on conversation, a really good narrator is essential. Kim Rossi almost achieves this. Her reading of the text is excellent, her warm and very peasant presentation pulling the reader into the stkry, and her voicing of the main characters is similarly sulerb. However, although she gives individually distinctive voice to all, a couple just don't seem to fir, with one shop keeper Being positively annoying and marring the overall performance.
I was fortunate in being freely gifted with a complimentary copy of Roses and Daisies and Death, Oh My! by the rights holder, at my request, via Audiobook Boom. Thank you so much. It was a deliciously fun cozy mystery even if somewhat formulaic, populated with delightful, if dotty, people - although how they put up with that dog is a mystery in itself! Alsso included at the close of the book are nine cocktail recipes so the reader can join in with the alcoholic fun. Hopefully, this is the first in a series and I look forward to more.
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