Sophia Rose Reviews - Naked Once More by Elizabeth Peters, narrated by Grace Conlin

Naked Once More by Elizabeth Peters, narrated by Grace Conlin

#4 Jacqueline Kirby

Historical Mystery

Publisher:  Blackstone Audio

Published:  8.5.08

Time: 12 hours 42 minutes

Rating: 4 stars

Format: Audio

Source:  Purchased

Sellers:  Amazon

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Goodreads Synopsis:

She may be a bestselling author, but ex-librarian Jacqueline Kirby's views on the publishing biz aren't fit to print. In fact, she's thinking of trading celebrity for serenity and a house far away from fiendish editors and demented fans when her agent whispers the only words that could ever make her stay: Naked in the Ice.

Seven years ago, this blockbuster skyrocketed Katleen Darcy to instant fame. Now the author's heirs are looking for a writer to pen the sequel. It's an opportunity no novelist in her right mind would pass up, and there's no doubting Jacqueline's sanity...until she starts digging through the missing woman's papers - and her past. Until she gets mixed up with Kathleen's enigmatic lover. Until a series of nasty accidents convince her much too late that someone wants to bring Jacqueline's story -and her life - to a premature end.

 

Sophia Rose Reviews: Die for Love by Elizabeth Peters, narrated by Grace Conlin

 

Die for Love by Elizabeth Peters, narrated by Grace Conlin

#3 Jacqueline Kirby

Historical Mystery

Publisher:  Blackstone Audio

Published:  9.19.08

Time: 9 hours 13 minutes

Rating: 4 stars

Format: Audio

Source:  Purchased

Sellers:  Amazon

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Goodreads Synopsis:

The annual Historical Romance Writers of the World convention in New York City is calling to Jacqueline Kirby, a Nebraska librarian who desperately desires some excitement. But all is not love and kisses at this August gathering of starry-eyed eccentrics and sentimental scribes. As far as Jacqueline is concerned, the sudden "natural" death of a gossip columnist seems anything but. And when she's approached by a popular genre star who fears for her own life, the resourceful Ms. Kirby quickly goes back to work...as a sleuth.

There's a sinister scenario being penned at this purple prose congregation. And when jealousy and passion are released from the boundaries of the printed page, the result can be murder.

 

The Murders of Richard III by Elizabeth Peters, narrated by Grace Conlin

 

The Murders of Richard III by Elizabeth Peters, narrated by Grace Conlin

#2 Jacqueline Kirby

Historical Mystery

Publisher:  Blackstone Audio

Published:  10.1.95

Time: 6 hours 52 minutes

Rating: 3.5 stars

Format: Audio

Source:  Purchased

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In a remote English country mansion, modern devotees of the infamous King Richard III, immortally villainized by Shakespeare, have gathered for a grand weekend of role-playing and Ricardian scholarship. Jacqueline Kirby, an attractive American librarian attending the festivities, anticipates only one mystery to be the five-hundred-year-old question of whether Richard truly killed the little princess in the Tower of London. Jacqueline is amused at the group's eccentricities--until history begins to repeat itself. A dangerous practical joker recreates famous fifteenth-century murder beheading, poisoning, smothering, and even drowning in a butt of malmsey. As the jokes become more and more macabre, one at last proves fatal. Racing to untangle the murderous puzzle, Jacqueline puts all her observations together for a dazzling solution that will surprise even the most attentive listener.

 

Devil May Care by Elizabeth Peters, narrated by Grace Conlin

 

Devil May Care by Elizabeth Peters, narrated by Grace Conlin

Historical Mystery

Publisher:  Blackstone Audio

Published:  1.11.07

Time:  7 hours 28 minutes

Rating: 3.5 stars

Format: audio

Source:  Purchased

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Ellie is young, rich, engaged, and in love. In the carefree days before marriage and new responsibility, she decides to house-sit at Aunt Kate's palatial estate in Burton, Virginia. With its nearly invisible housekeepers and plethora of pets, Ellie feels right at home. But when she opens an antique book about the town's aristocracy, she finds disturbing secrets that extend to her own family. Suddenly, Ellie's interest in the past is attracting a slew of unwelcome guests - some of them living and some perhaps not. Unwittingly, she has aroused a terrible vengeance that is now aimed at her.

 

Sophia Rose Reviews: The Seventh Sinner by Elizabeth Peters, narrated by Grace Conlin

 

The Seventh Sinner by Elizabeth Peters, narrated by Grace Conlin

#1 Jacqueline Kirby

Historical Mystery

Publisher:  Blackstone Audio

Published:  7.1.98

Time: 5 hours 55 minutes

Rating: 4 stars

Format: Audio

Source:  Purchased

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Goodreads Synopsis:

At first, Jean Suttman thought she had died and gone to Heaven when she was granted the opportunity to study in Rome. But the body that's lying in the ancient subterranean Temple of Mithra—the murdered corpse of a repulsive and disliked fellow student—isn't her idea of heavenly. Now she is truly frightened, not just because small "accidents" seem to be occurring around her with disturbing regularity. It's the ever-increasing certainty that someone, for some unknown reason, is ruthlessly determined to do her harm. Jean's innocent underground excursion into a sacred pagan place has trapped her in something dark and terrifying, and even the knowledge that practical, perceptive fellow American Jacqueline Kirby is on the case won't ease her fears. Because there's only so far Jean Suttman can run . . . and no escape for her except death.