Bloodstains with Brontë

A Crime with the Classics Mystery

By: Katherine Bolger Hyde

Narrated by: Caroline Shaffer

Windy Corner is being remodeled into a writers' retreat. Two of the young workers, Jake and Roman, are showing too much of the wrong kind of interest in Katie, Emily's young single-mother housekeeper.

It's a stormy autumn and Emily is reading Wuthering Heights. Roman, a dark and brooding type, reminds her of Heathcliff. At a Halloween murder mystery fundraiser at Windy Corner, someone is found stabbed to death. Windy Corner's very own detective, Luke, is reluctantly forced to investigate Katie.

Luke digs into the background of the contractor, Jeremiah Edwards, and Emily, now reading Jane Eyre, realizes Jeremiah resembles St. John Rivers in his obsessive, tormented piety. Will Luke figure out who the murderer is before Katie ends up in jail or someone else is killed?

©2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc. (P)2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Started good then not so much

How many times can the reader mispronounce the name Ramon. It was ridiculous
Then the injection of religious belief towards the end was unnecessary

Fine but EEEK

I think the mystery itself was way too easy to guess, but I can get over it due to my love of the cozy mystery genre. But what I struggled to get past was Hyde’s depiction of the gay couple as “sinners in need of forgiveness”. Yikes.