Never Laugh as a Hearse Goes By, Elizabeth J. Duncan
Never Laugh as a Hearse Goes By, Elizabeth J. Duncan
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Never Laugh as a Hearse Goes By
A Penny Brannigan Mystery

Author: Elizabeth J. Duncan

Narrator: Anne Flosnik

Unabridged: 6 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/29/2013

Synopsis

Spa owner and habitual amateur sleuth Penny Brannigan finds herself at a clerical conference at Gladstone's Library in North Wales. Also attending as a guest speaker is her boyfriend, DCI Gareth Davies. But behind the ornate red sandstone facade of this most respectable of Victorian buildings, Penny encounters deception, marital and financial infidelity, a sham marriage scam, blackmail for beginners, and someone bent on murder. When the bishop's secretary dies of a suspicious case of food poisoning, Davies leads the investigation. At Penny's suggestion, Florence Semble, a friend from Penny's adopted hometown, is invited to the Library to decode the secretary's shorthand notebook in the search for clues. As the conference continues, another body is found in the beautiful library itself, and Penny must once again search for a killer.

About Elizabeth J. Duncan

Elizabeth J. Duncan is a winner of the Malice Domestic Best First Traditional Mystery Novel Competition. She was shortlisted for the Agatha and Arthur Ellis Awards. She lives in Toronto. She enjoys spending time each year in North Wales and lives with her dog, Dolly, in Toronto, where she teaches in the public relations program at Humber College.

Reviews

Goodreads review by BeParticular on December 19, 2016

I'm tiring of this series. Five books in we should know much more about the characters than we do. And the little we do know is simplistic, boring, and repetitious. Penny (and the rest of the town's characters) have plenty of potential for development, but they've stalled instead. The relationship b......more

Goodreads review by Anna on January 18, 2025

Knives out adjacent......more

Goodreads review by Angela on January 15, 2014

I love Elizabeth Duncan's Penny Brannigan Welsh mysteries. While there's nothing that unusual or different about them, they are well written, well-developed characters set in a small Welsh town. Penny co-owns a spa and dates a policeman. The town has the usual cast of busybodies, a nice clergyman an......more

Goodreads review by Valerie on April 11, 2017

Never Laugh As a Hearse Goes by by Elizabeth Duncan is a cosy mystery set in Wales. It is a pleasant book with engaging characters and while there isn't a lot of excitement there are a number of suspenseful twists and turns and the setting is interesting. The author is Canadian and lives and works in......more

Goodreads review by Carol on November 25, 2013

In this terrific 5th entry in a winning series Duncan seamlessly weaves together a cast of memorable characters, old favorites from the village of Llanelen, a full range of emotions and motives, and a multi-layered plot, then places them all into the serene, magnificent setting of the real-life Glad......more

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