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    Missing Susan
    Missing Susan
    Missing Susan
    Audiobook8 hours

    Missing Susan

    Written by Sharyn McCrumb

    Narrated by Barbara Rosenblat

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Anyone with a taste for murder with a British twist will stand in line to listen to this riveting audiobook by internationally acclaimed author Sharyn McCrumb. Laced with biting wit, humor and a delightful helping of irony, Missing Susan carries listeners on a holiday filled with potentially lethal adventure. When Rowan Rover is offered $50,000 to murder a woman on his September Mystery Tour, he is surprised to find himself accepting the offer. The thought of committing murder chills him, until he meets the beautiful Susan Cohen. After days of listening to her nonstop chatter, with insults tossed in every direction, Rowan reaches a startling conclusion: she is someone he would like to kill. And he is not alone. Can MacPherson prevent the murder, or will she unwittingly aid in a deadly accident? Listeners will revel in Barbara Rosenblat's luxurious reading as she delivers all McCrumb's top-notch suspense and a first-rate tour of southern England.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateApr 6, 2010
    ISBN9781436147538
    Missing Susan
    Author

    Sharyn McCrumb

    SHARYN MCCRUMB is the author of The Rosewood Casket, She Walks These Hills and many other acclaimed novels. Her books have been named Notable Books of the Year by the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. She was named a “Virginia Woman of History” for Achievement in Literature in 2008. She lives and writes in the Virginia Blue Ridge, less than a hundred miles from where her family settled in 1790 in the Smoky Mountains that divide North Carolina and Tennessee.

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    • 1/5
      McCrumb was wise to abandon this series. It was mediocre at best. The Ballad novels are better.
    • 1/5
      McCrumb was wise to abandon this series. It was mediocre at best. The Ballad novels are better.
    • 4/5
      Rowan Rover, British expert on historical true crimes, is twice divorced and hounded by creditors. As he prepares to lead a two-week mystery tour of the UK, he is approached by a man who wants him to murder one of the tourists, Susan Cohen. Financially desperate and maintaining an admirable sense of denial about the crime itself, Rowan agrees. Amateur sleuth Elizabeth McPherson, whose new husband is on a six-week work engagement, is a member of the tour.Susan turns out to be almost hilariously obnoxious, talking continually about how things are done in her home town of Minneapolis and reciting the plots of mysteries she has read. As Rowan contemplates how to do the deed, we see that almost any of the tourists might be willing to do it for him. His early attempts are deflected onto the other tourists, making one quite ill and another injured. When Elizabeth receives an electric shock in the hotel room that had been assigned to Susan, she wonders if someone might actually be making unsuccessful attempts on Susan's life.There are several funny moments in which Rowan, contemplating his assignment, is startled by tourists' questions or exclamations about the other murders featured on the tour. Ms. McCrumb stops short of slapstick hilarity and leaves us to wonder what will happen. Can he do it? Can he get away with it? How can he survive if he fails? The final solution is almost inevitable, but it includes a nice twist. A quick, fun read, which will be especially appealing to those with an interest in the company's tour of the UK's historical true crime scenes.
    • 5/5
      Newlywed Elizabeth MacPherson decides to go on a mystery tour of England when her husband must go on a 6 week marine biology tour. She lands on a tour guided by Rowan Rover, author of a book on British crime and an expert on Jack the Ripper who has been hired by the family of one of the other tourists to do away with their family heiress. This is a very enjoyable read as accidents befall the group along their tour of England. Will Rover achieve his goal? Will Elizabeth figure out what is going on and stop him? I'll let you read it to find out!
    • 3/5
      Elizabeth MacPherson joins a tour of Americans visiting England's most famous murder sites. When one of the group is murdered, she investigates. Average. While these mysteries have some funny moments, I don't like them that much. They are okay, but they don't compel me to re-read.