Murder in the Manor
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4.1 • 1.1K Ratings
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Publisher Description
MURDER IN THE MANOR (A LACEY DOYLE COZY MYSTERY—BOOK 1) is the debut novel in a charming new cozy mystery series by Fiona Grace.
Lacey Doyle, 39 years old and freshly divorced, needs a drastic change. She needs to quit her job, leave her horrendous boss and New York City, and walk away from the fast life. Making good on her childhood promise to herself, she decides to walk away from it all, and to relive a beloved childhood vacation in the quaint English seaside town of Wilfordshire.
Wilfordshire is exactly as Lacey remembers it, with its ageless architecture, cobblestone streets, and with nature at its doorstep. Lacey doesn’t want to go back home—and spontaneously, she decides to stay, and to give her childhood dream a try: she will open her own antique shop.
Lacey finally feels that her life is taking a step in the right direction—until her new star customer turns up dead.
As the newcomer in town, all eyes are on Lacey, and it’s up to her to clear her own name.
With a business to run, a next-door neighbor turned nemesis, a flirty baker across the street, and a crime to solve – is this new life all that Lacey thought it would be?
Book #2 in the series—DEATH AND A DOG—is also available for preorder!
Customer Reviews
Good book!
I really liked the book and thought it was a simple read (or listen). I’m taking a ☆ off just because it would skip or repeat itself a few times.
It's so bad it's good.
I very rarely write reviews because I'm not sure how impactful they are but this whole thing is so bad it's good.
Let's start off with the story. lol lol lol lol!! It's like reading a hallmark movie except the hallmark move is slightly better written. There's an unnecessary interlude which gets quite boring but it's easy to "read"/listen to. So what the hey!
Some parts just get so silly and unreal. Like.. no one is going to be doing that. And if they did they'd need a whole lot more. And also who does that?- kind of thing. But there's such cuteness in between and you start rooting for the main character, and the writer, too! lol... you can see the writer has some talent and ability and you just kinda want them to win.... you want the writer to win, and you want the main character to win. And in between the two, and the syrupy hallmark unrealness it starts becoming amusing, enjoyable.
The voice is.. I don't know what it is. The main voice is... condescending? Too detached? Too above it all? There is something annoying about the main voice but the other voices are done so well that the whole choir of them seems like a medieval play. The ones the peasants visited. All surly, without decency. The voice strategy, that is. It's all just too much but with real moments of inspiration. There is a genuineness to the awfulness of the narrator.
Then at the end it doubles a whole segment. Repeats some words. Not jarring, but really disorienting at first. Then it's like- when we had CD players and it would skip.. a kind of nostalgia.
Like any of these things alone would be deserving of disapprobation but together make for some kind of 'b'... 'c' list experience that's so bad it's good.
It's meant to be a mystery, but really from the storyline to the production, it's a comedy.!
Suspenseful
Twists and turns that keep you interested!! Very enjoyable and not confusing.