Aunt Dimity and the Lost Prince

By: Nancy Atherton

Narrated by: Teri Clark Linden

Cozy mystery lovers’ favorite paranormal sleuth is back with her 18th otherworldly adventure.

When a finely wrought silver sleigh figurine turns up in her thrift shop, Lori Shepherd recognizes it instantly. It was the object that mesmerized the sweet but very poor nine-year-old Daisy Pickering at Sproggton Manor, the bizarre Jacobean house-turned-museum Lori recently visited with her twin sons. Hoping to avoid any real commotion, Lori decides to speak with the museum curator, who turns out to be oddly uninterested in the theft. But there’s not much that could be done anyway for the Pickerings seem to have come into some money and moved to Australia.

With Aunt Dimity’s otherworldly guidance, Lori’s search for the sleigh’s true owner leads her to a tangled web of secrets stretching from the finest English country estates back to the blood-drenched soil of the Russian Revolution.

©2013 Nancy T. Atherton (P)2013 Audible, Inc.

great story, not a great reader

I love this series and have read most of the books in paperback. I love the main character and her personality. unfortunately the reader detracts from the story. she over-innunciates the words to the point it almost sounds like she's speaking each word individually. I really dislike the accents. they just don't all flow well for me.

I think the narrator is great!

I keep seeing reviews where listeners didn’t like Terry Linden Clark’s rendition. I love her! I’d like to see the complainers be able to distinctly make voices and accents of so many characters. Are the accents right on? Again, let me see you do so many accents in a perfect manner through so many books in the series. Terry does each character so distinctly, that you can tell which character she is speaking without knowing the characters name.. even if there are from a last book. If she is speaking slower than normal.. another complaint.. we as a society are in high gear constantly. I find the slower pace refreshing and takes me to a calm place to enjoy the story.
I think Terry is a fantastic narrator!

If you like listening to 3rd grade level reading..

The story was cute. I have always been an Aunt Dimity fan, but I am NO FAN of this narrator. The accents were horrible, the pace slow and each word was sounded out. It was just like listening to my daughter read from her 3rd grade reading books! Nails on a blackboard type pain! I will READ another Aunt Dimity, but never listen to this narrator again!

Buyer beware: narration spoils book

Any additional comments?

Halting and over-enunciated, the narration spoils a good book in Nancy Atherton's charming Aunt Dimity mystery series. The narrator's unnatural cadence and odd dialects prevented me from becoming immersed in the story. Wish I had read the print version instead.

good story, uncomfortable reader

Is there anything you would change about this book?

narrator

What didn’t you like about Teri Clark Linden’s performance?

She did not read naturally. She seemed to emphasize speaking each word individually which made it sound like a series of words rather than a story.

Any additional comments?

I really enjoy Nancy Atherton's books. Light reading, no smut. Pleasant characters.