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    Murder in the Afternoon: A Kate Shackleton Mystery

    Written by Frances Brody

    Narrated by Deryn Edwards

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    About this audiobook

    Young Harriet and her brother Austin have always been scared of the quarry where their stonemason father works. So when they find him dead on the cold ground, they scarper quick smart and look for help.

    When help arrives, the quarry is deserted and there is no sign of the body. Were the children mistaken? Is their father not dead? Did he simply get up and run away? It seems like another unusual case requiring the expertise of Kate Shackleton. But for Kate this is one case where surprising family ties makes it her most dangerous and delicate yet.

    ©2011 Frances McNeil (P)2014 Dreamscape Media, LLC

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media Audio
    Release dateFeb 11, 2014
    ISBN9781629232379
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    Murder in the Afternoon: A Kate Shackleton Mystery
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    Frances Brody

    Frances Brody is a pseudonym for Frances McNeil, the scriptwriter, playwright, and author of four novels and the winner of the Elizabeth Elgin Award. Her stage plays have been toured by several theatre companies, and Jehad was nominated for a Time Out Award.

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    • 4/5
      A young woman, Mary Jane, insists that Kate can find her husband who has gone missing at the stone quarry where he works. His children claim to have seen his body, but it disappeared before they could get help. But Mary Jane is hiding something - a secret from Kate’s past.
    • 3/5
      Kate is called upon by her sister (who once worked for the Quarry owner & his wife) to find out what has happened to her husband Ethan.Ethan, a highly skilled mason, was working on a delicate blue slate sundial for the quarry owner's wife, when his children find him laying next to the sundial without a pulse..... when his daughter goes back to the quarry with Kate, Ethan has disappeared and the sun dial is in pieces.Ethan was the union representative and had just lost the strike vote, with someone being a snitch for management. His best friend had just sold his farm over to the quarry owner, which caused a riff between the two.Too many people, including the local policeman, would prefer to believe that Ethan up and ran away.....The town gossip (vicar's sister) is found dead & whispers to Kate about something "bitter", but the local doctor prefers to call her death "heart failure"...A good story with a satisfying conclusion.
    • 4/5
      The third book in the series and one that takes an interesting turn, we've always known that Kate was adopted and this latest investigation brings her into contact with her birth family. Its an interesting investigation as well, two children visit their stonemason father and find him lying dead on his workshop floor, except when they return with adults, the body is gone. Is he really dead or has he run away following an argument with his wife? The local police, believing the latter, refuse to investigate, and Kate is called in by his wife to investigate. The missing man is politically active and has formed a fledgling union, could this be linked to his disappearance? I have a feeling that Brody has finally started to find her way in this series, and look forward to reading the next instalment.
    • 4/5
      While I felt the story seemed to have a slow start, I got over that fairly quickly and was pulled into the story, wanting to know what was going on and who was behind it all. Like many of the best mysteries, this one had a few good false trails and some dirty little secrets that got in the way of finding the murderer. To be honest I was surprised when I found out who the guilty person really was. That doesn’t happen often where the culprit wasn’t even on my radar. That along with the good writing means I will be reading more of Kate Shackleton.Harriet and her brother Austin are bringing their father a bit of supper at the quarry where he was working Saturday evening, since he hadn’t come home. When they arrived it was very quiet, no one was working and their father didn’t respond to the calling whistle. So Harriet went into the quarry and found her dad laying on the floor of his workshop. He wasn’t moving and he wouldn’t wake up. So she took her brother to the nearest neighbors to get help. When they returned there was no sign of a body or foul play.After a search with nothing turning up, the constable let it rest as a man who had enough and left his family. This is where Kate was brought in. The big shock to Kate was the wife of the missing man was Kate’s sister. Kate had been adopted out and had never known the family she was born too. So Kate got more than she bargained for.
    • 4/5
      Another intriguing mystery for Frances Brody's lady detective, this time involving a shocking family connection. I must admit, the only detail really keeping me loyal to Kate is the West Yorkshire setting, but I do love the wry humour ('It doesn't amount to enough currants to throw at a bun from t'other end of kitchen'), period atmosphere, and the way Kate grows with each novel. There's the eccentric mother, dependable assistant, handsome lover, and even a drawerful of kittens, but something about Frances Brody's writing saves Kate from the usual cosy detective formula.As to the mystery, I picked up on the biggest clue, but failed to attribute the means to the right person or guess the motive. I was content to just sit back and motor around 1920s Leeds with Kate in her Jowett motor car! The characters are all very well drawn, however, from canny young Harriet to the plain-spoken Mrs Whittaker, who I hope will return in the next novel (if there is one!) And the epilogue was beautifully written, hopeful and haunting in equal measure.
    • 3/5
       My second book by this author, and I still like it. She's got an interesting mixture of background, and her family gets involved in this book too. Quite telling on the subject of the huge social upheaval that took place after the first world war, this episode involving Communism and trade unions as well as references to the increasing advance of women into the male workplace. Not all the characters view this in quite the same way, making for some interesting conflicts. If I happen to see another one in the library, I won't turn it down