Stiff News

Name: Stiff News
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)
Author: Catherine Aird
ISBN: 9781982633592

Author: Catherine Aird

Series: Calleshire Chronicles #1

Narrator: Derek Perkins

Unabridged: 5 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

Published: 07/25/2020

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Traditional British

Synopsis

In Catherine Aird’s Stiff News, a letter received by an old woman’s son after her death alerts Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan that one woman’s death by natural causes in a local nursing home may actually be murder. But that is just the beginning of the odd goings-on in this nursing home catering to former members of a WWII regiment.

About Catherine Aird

Catherine Aird (1930–2024) was the author of more than twenty books of detective mysteries and three collections of short stories, most of which feature Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan and Detective Constable W. E. Crosby. Aird held an honorary master’s degree from the University of Kent and was appointed an MBE in 1998. In recognition of her significant contribution to crime writing she was awarded the Crime Writers’ Association Diamond Dagger in 2015.

About Derek Perkins

Derek Perkins is a professional narrator and voice actor. He has earned numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards and the prestigious Audie Award for Best Narration, as well as numerous Society of Voice Arts nominations. AudioFile magazine named him a Best Voice consecutively in 2014, 2015, and 2016. Augmented by a knowledge of three foreign languages and a facility with accents, he has narrated numerous titles in a wide range of fiction and nonfiction genres.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ram

Average page turner with pretensions to be better.......more