Weycombe: A Novel of Suspense

Written by G.M. Malliet

Narrated by Katherine Manners

Living in the wealthy gated village of Weycombe with her titled English husband is a fantasy come true for American Jillian White. But the murder of a local estate agent mars the pretty surface of her life and home. Worried about a killer on the loose, Jill tries to piece together clues hidden in the many versions of truth she hears from her suspicious neighbors. But as she plunges deep into the investigation, her own suspicions grow into a warped web of lies and treachery.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dreamscape Media Audio
• Release date: Nov 21, 2017
• ISBN: 9781520091853

G.M. Malliet

Agatha Award-winning G.M. Malliet is the acclaimed author of two traditional mystery series and a standalone novel set in England. The first entry in the DCI St. Just series, Death of a Cozy Writer, won the Agatha Award for Best First Novel and was nominated for Macavity and Anthony Awards. The Rev. Max Tudor series has been nominated for many awards as have several of her short stories appearing in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and The Strand. The Augusta Hawke mysteries, of which Invitation to a Killer is the second, are her first novels set in the U.S., where she and her husband now live. www.gmmalliet.com

Reviews for Weycombe

[Paula Pettavino · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I adore this author; however, I listened to this book with mixed feelings. It contained some inconsistencies but far worse for me (relating only to the audio version) was the narrator. The other novels I’ve heard were narrated by the incomparable Davina Porter. I assumed the reason for the change was because the story narrator is an American. Yet she goes on to make so many mistakes in pronunciation—and egregious ones, such as “Albuquerk “ for “Albuquerque”, or “bra” with “a like apple”. On the latter example she later says it as an American would say it, when she says “sports bra.” There are many, many others—so many that it was distracting. Yet Malliet is a true talent and the ending alone is worth it.