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Rotten to the Core

A Lady Hardcastle Mystery, Book 8

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Rotten to the Core

By: T E Kinsey
Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden
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Summer 1911. A scorching heatwave engulfs the quiet town of Littleton Cotterell and brings about an unusually early harvest. The villagers are thrilled, but events quickly turn sour when one of them turns up dead in an apple orchard, stabbed through the heart.

Amateur sleuth Lady Hardcastle and her trusty lady’s maid, Flo, suddenly have a juicy case on their hands. Might the mysterious stranger they recently met in the village be to blame?

When a second cider-related murder takes place, it quickly becomes clear that there’s more to these mysterious deaths than meets the eye. The daring duo uncover whispers of an ancient order and moonlit rituals. And evidence points to a macabre secret in the village stretching back years. A secret someone will do anything—anything at all—to keep hidden.

Something is rotten, that’s for sure. With the local constabulary baffled, Lady Hardcastle and Flo must use all their powers of wit and whimsy to get to the bottom of the dastardly deed. But can they catch the killer before any more people drop dead?

©2022 T E Kinsey (P)2022 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Amateur Sleuths Cosy Historical Mystery
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Critics' reviews

“Elizabeth Knowelden's versatile British accents enhance this charming cozy set in the sultry summer of 1911 in the quaint English town of Littleton Cotterell.”—AudioFile Magazine
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Just when I thought they would not return...
It was a pleasure as always. The story lives from the characters which the speaker really brings to life.

Flo and Lady Hardcastle are back!

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Funny, clever and very entertaining like all the other books of the Lady H. series. And the voice actress is phenomenal!!!!

I absolutely loved it!!!!

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es passt ganz gut, dass ich dabei bin, Obst zu verarbeiten (u.a. Äpfel 😉) ...
Das Altenglisch, das gelegentlich zitiert wird, klingt sehr interessant, erinnert ein bißchen an Mittelhochdeutsch, ähnlich rauh und unverständlich.
Und natürlich hab ich das EBook nebenbei offen gehabt: der Dialekt vom West Country klingt zwar sehr hübsch, war aber im Lehrplan meiner Schule nicht enthalten und ist dementsprechend schwierig zu verstehen.
Aber die Geschichte selber - "Oh, my"!!! Sieht so klar aus an manchen Stellen und man fragt sich, was da noch so lang dauern soll - und schon gibt es Komplikationen 😉
Ich liebe es, Elizabeth Knowelden zuzuhören, sie schafft es, einerseits sehr klar zu sprechen, andererseits aber auch immer deutlich zu machen, welche Person gerade spricht - und die verschiedenen Dialekte klingen absolut echt.
Ich hoffe, T.E. Kinsey schafft es, sowohl bei den Dizzy Heights als auch bei Lady Hardcastle neue Abenteuer herauszubringen.

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If you love Lady Hardcastle and her sidekick Flo, especially their exceptional sense of humour, as much as I do, you won't much mind the little flaws in this book's plot.
The narrator is, as Lady Hardcastle would say, an absolute poppet.

Good fun, though I had trouble getting into it.

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