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The Red Monarch
- Brontë Sisters, Book 3
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
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Summary
A new Brontë Mystery from Bella Ellis, a pen name for best-selling author Rowan Coleman.
The Brontë sisters' first poetry collection has just been published, potentially marking an end to their careers as amateur detectors, when Anne receives a letter from her friend Lydia Robinson.
Lydia has eloped with a young actor, Harry Roxby, and following her disinheritance, the couple has been living in poverty in London. Harry has become embroiled with a criminal gang and is in terrible danger after allegedly losing something very valuable that he was meant to deliver to their leader. The desperate and heavily pregnant Lydia has a week to return what her husband supposedly stole, or he will be killed. She knows there are few people who she can turn to in this time of need, but the sisters agree to help Lydia, beginning a race against time to save Harry's life.
In doing so, our intrepid sisters come face-to-face with a terrifying adversary whom even the toughest of the slum-dwellers are afraid of...the Red Monarch.
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- kate bluffield
- 12-02-22
Silly
I liked the previous books, so didn’t think twice about purchasing this. But, I found it tedious, full of parsimonious dialogue and Emily Brontë was a gun and sword toting ‘Lara Croft-esque’ figure…. Obviously, the basic concept is fiction, but it got completely silly … also bugs me that 21st century ‘sensibilities’ are shoe-horned into the storyline. These are VICTORIAN WOMEN…yes they were literary giants and far ahead of their time, but really??… silly and a waste of a credit
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- Penny Black
- 05-08-24
The Red Monarch
Whilst broadly I enjoyed this tale of the Brontës, I do have two main criticisms. Firstly, the author's simple minded feminism was annoying, and once you saw it, it coloured the whole book. With the partial exception of the Brontë Sisters and Mrs Crowe, the female characters were ALL put-upon secular saints, and the only virtuous male character was Branwell. This simply doesn't reflect reality. Also,, the constant stream of Brontë references made suspending disbelief extremely difficult. in my view the author should have had Louis Paransell and left it at that.
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- Richard Maidment
- 19-11-21
A London Mystery.
I have listened to all of the other Bella Ellis Audibles, and have enjoyed them all.In this one we find the Bronte family travelling away from their precious Moors, to the heart of the City where life is far removed from the tranquility they love.and rogues lurk around every corner. The main plot moves at a fast pace and tests the Detective skills of each Bronte., once again. Most of the audible focuses on the Theatre, and there is a lot of detailed history to be learned about its architecture. The audible was reminiscent of a Dickensian novel in some respects.,and the listeners are left to guess the true identity of the villain throughout .The Narrator was very good.Bella Ellis has captured wonderfully each Bronte personality as they solve this new mystery together.
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- Woodhead
- 04-08-22
Cracks along
A great fun mystery with Yorkshire’s finest at its heart. Bella Ellis - Rowan Coleman - has imagined the sisters so well, making flesh the hints we have of them and rescuing Emily from the dour image usually given. The story had me guessing to the end, with more twists than a moorland stream. A great fun listen.
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- Kindle Customer
- 23-11-21
Great story and wonderful narration.
This is the third Bella Ellis Brontë sisters novel I have read and it was wonderful. The narration was first class and carries the reader into the 19 century world the sisters inhabit.
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- Anonymous User
- 03-07-24
another brilliant listen
I love these books , that's my third one , just got no 4 to go . story line is awesome . the narrator brings this to life wonderful well . all credit to her . would highly recommend this series of books
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