Claude, Gord, Alice, and Maud, Jinny Alexander
Claude, Gord, Alice, and Maud, Jinny Alexander
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Claude, Gord, Alice, and Maud
An English small town cozy mystery

Author: Jinny Alexander

Narrator: Helen Lloyd

Unabridged: 6 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/29/2024

Synopsis

A corpse in a cupboard. Four likely suspects. One visually-impaired seventy-something sleuth. It’s nearly Christmas in the small English town of Little Wittering, and retired teacher Sally Smith is enjoying an afternoon in the hair salon. Until she sniffs out a corpse. With a body in the broom cupboard and a police-imposed lock-in until the culprit is caught, it doesn’t take long to deduce someone in the salon is a cold-blooded killer. Sally’s most challenging former pupil may have scraped through Police College but he’s as incompetent as ever, so when the cops think they’ve collared the criminal, Sally’s not sure they’ve made the right cut. Can a blind woman identify the true culprit or will Sally’s sleuthing make her the chief suspect – or the next victim? Claude, Gord, Alice, and Maud is the first of Jinny Alexander’s new British small-town cosy mystery series, Mrs Smith’s Suspects, and introduces a thoroughly entertaining modern-day version of a Golden Age locked room mystery.

About Jinny Alexander

"Jinny was first published in Horse and Pony magazine at the age of ten. Since then, she’s turned to novel-writing, and is the author of the Jess O’Malley Irish Village Mysteries; the Mrs Smith’s Suspects cozy mystery series, and a handful of standalone contemporary fiction novels. Jinny has also been placed/listed in several prestigious flash or short story contests, including Bath Flash Fiction, Flash 500, Writing Magazine, and Writers' Playground. In 2023, Jinny was awarded an MA with Distinction in Creative Writing, and it was on this course that she met narrator Helen Lloyd. She hopes Claude, Gord, Alice, and Maud will be the first of many collaborations and is delighted to have found such a perfect voice for Mrs Smith! Jinny also teaches English as a foreign language to people all over the world. Her home for now is in rural Ireland, which she shares with her husband and far too many animals. Her two children have grown and flown but return across the Irish Sea when they can. She quite likes to shut the door on them all and write."

About Helen Lloyd

Helen Lloyd is a classically trained actor who has a keen ear for accents and loves to bring characters to life. The narrator of books in numerous genres, she delights in new challenges.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lovely Day on August 03, 2024

4⭐️ Sally Smith, who lives in a senior’s complex, is at her hair appointment at the complex’s salon. While she is there, sitting in her chair, a murder in the building is discovered and no one is permitted to leave until the authorities have done their job. Sally Smith is also blind, but this has neve......more

Goodreads review by Mrs on June 02, 2024

This book is one of the most original mysteries I’ve read. Mrs Sally Smith, the retired schoolteacher is a delightful sleuth. She may be visually challenged, but her other senses are razor sharp. Trapped in a hair salon where a murder has been committed - the proverbial ‘locked room’- Mrs Smith’s in......more

Goodreads review by Not Quite A Bookshop on September 16, 2024

A body is found in the salon store cupboard and a group of elderly regular clients. Our heroine Mrs Sally Smith channels her inner Jane Marple to assist the police in uncovering the murderer. This was a joy to listen to - I highly recommend the audible version - and proves, as Agatha Christie hersel......more

Goodreads review by Charlene on July 30, 2024

I received this as an ARC in exchange for an honest review. I think I like the Jess O'Malley books a touch better; they feel more filled out to me and the mysteries a bit more in depth. However, this book is still a great cozy mystery. I really like the titular character and having a sleuth relying o......more

Goodreads review by Mary on June 16, 2024

This is the first in a new series and it's off to a great start. The discovery of a dead man in the cupboard of a hair salon immediately points to a member of staff or a client on the premises being the killer. So we have a locked room type of mystery which immediately had me intrigued especially as......more

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