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Murder is in the Air

by Frances Brody
Anne Dover
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North Yorkshire, 1930. It's the season for warm and spirited countryside celebrations. Ever since the war, pubs have been in the doldrums, and in an attempt to promote and breathe new life back into the business, brewers select a charismatic employee as local queen—to be the face of their industry. And this year's queen, wages clerk Ruth Parnaby, has invited the ever intrepid Kate Shackleton and her niece Harriet to accompany her on public engagements at a garden party thrown in her honor. But when Ruth leads children to the stables for pony rides, the drayman is missing, later found in the last place imaginable—the fermentation room—deceased. What looked to be a simple case of asphyxiation in the dangerous fermentation room is quickly clarified by the pathologist as murder—the drayman was already dead before he was taken into the room. Someone was looking to cover it up. The horse dealer who sold the pony to the drayman comes under suspicion, but more and more, Ruth's nasty father Slater Parnaby's strong motive to dissuade his daughter from any festivities lingers in Kate's mind, despite his having an alibi. The case is muddy, at best, and it's going to take Kate at her keenest to decipher the truth.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Kate Shackleton

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    October 22, 2020

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781666543513
      • File size: 280499 KB
      • Duration: 09:44:22

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      As Anne Dover performs this audiobook set in 1930 in Leeds, she makes listeners feel a deep connection to the story and its characters. William Lofthouse asks Kate Singleton for help with his struggling business, Barleycorn Brewery. Soon, Kate and her partner, Jim Sykes, become involved in an investigation into sabotage at the brewery. Then, the hit-and-run killing of the brewery secretary plunges Kate and Jim into the first of multiple murders. Dover gives each character distinction. In particular, when a character cries, listeners hear the tears in her speech. When the father of the brewery beauty queen abuses her, listeners feel her pain and want to come to her defense. V.M.G. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      October 19, 2020
      Set in 1930, Brody’s plodding 12th Kate Shackleton mystery (after 2019’s The Body on the Train) takes private investigator Kate and her assistant, Jim Sykes, to the Yorkshire market town of Masham, where William Lofthouse, the owner of Barleycorn Brewery, needs her help. “You’ve a right good reputation for discretion, for tackling all sorts of tricky business,” he tells her, and explains that there’s “a bit of a muddle in the accounts.” The capable Miss Crawford, William’s secretary, gives Sykes the relevant documents to examine. When Miss Crawford is knocked off her bike by an automobile and killed instantly, Sykes is sure it was murder. Not much happens until a second death. Meanwhile, Ruth Parnaby, the company’s wage clerk, is preparing to compete for the title of Brewery Queen of all Yorkshire. Ruth’s travails and triumphs tend to overshadow the investigative work. Smooth prose and nice local color offset in part a less than scintillating plot. Series fans will best appreciate this installment. Agent: Rebecca Winfield, David Luxton Assoc.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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Languages

  • English

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