Callie Hutton

Rosie Akerman

A Victorian Book Club Mystery

A Study in Murder

Sarah Sammis

Much of this first mystery is spent fixated on Victorian senses of propriety. Yes, the British class system and aristocracy is layered and nuanced but I swear the honorifics here are used more as padding than to add a sense of realism. British books with titled characters don't spend as much time with the honorifics as this book does.

I happened to listen to the audio and usually the narrator doesn't get in the way of enjoying the mystery. Here though, Akerman's attempts at doing different voices ends up in panto territory. The best ones are nasally but otherwise in offensive. The detective, though, has a voice that is best suited to Mr. Punch. In the context of this book, it's literally painful. Interestingly, there's a different narrator for the second book.

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