A Cryptic Clue

A Hunter and Clewe Mystery, Book 1

By: Victoria Gilbert

Narrated by: Carrington MacDuffie

Sixty-year-old Jane Hunter, forced into early retirement from her job as a university librarian, is seeking a new challenge to keep her spirits up and supplement her meager pension. But as she’s about to discover, a retiree’s life can bring new thrills—and new dangers.

Cameron “Cam” Clewe, an eccentric 33-year-old collector, is also seeking something—an archivist to inventory his ever-expanding compendium of rare books and artifacts. Jane’s thrilled to be hired on by Cam and to uncover the secrets of his latest acquisition, a trove of items related to classic mystery and detective authors. But Jane’s delight is upended when a body is discovered in Cam’s library. The victim, heir to a pharmaceutical fortune, was the last in line of Cam’s failed romances—and now he’s suspect number one.

Cam vows to use his intelligence and deductive skills to clear his name—but with a slight case of agoraphobia, rampant anxiety, and limited social skills, he’ll need some help. It comes down to Jane to exonerate her new boss—but is he truly innocent?

©2023 Victoria Gilbert (P)2023 Dreamscape Media

Exquisite storytelling

In this high quality mystery, the storytelling is lovely and highly polished, the story world is vivid and bright, and the characters are compelling. I'll definitely borrow more books by this author.

Finally, an original storyline!

This book is one of my favorites so far. The reason being I love Cozy murder mysteries, but I’m getting a little tired of girl moves to small town, girl falls in love with cop, girl buys a business and starts running it.

I don’t read these books for a romance in the background, but this thankfully does not have a romance going on in the background. It’s just a very intelligently written book with an engaging plot, very well edited and narrated and original. I plan to get every book in this woman series. I couldn’t stop listening it was so riveting and refreshingly original!

5 stars

A Cryptic Clue is an engaging mystery with an entertaining plot. I look forward to the next book.

Great Book!

Very interesting book with a great narrator!
Plot moves at a good pace and is never boring.

Twists and turns.

Twists and turns made this a good read for me. I would read other books with these characters.