Earl Grey and Shallow Graves

A British Cozy Murder Mystery with a Female Sleuth

By: Victoria Tait

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

A hidden skeleton. A missing girl. Can a determined café owner uncover the truth, or will a deadly secret remain buried for ever?

Sergeant Keya Varma is delighted to begin her new part-time role as the Cotswolds’ Rural Engagement Officer, while fulfilling her long-held dream of opening a small neighbourhood café. But she gets herself into a stew when builders uncover a young girl’s remains during the renovation work.

While Keya and her police colleagues make progress reopening the case of a local girl who vanished thirty years ago, her brief taste of success turns bitter when a friend is found dead at her café. As confusion over identities threatens to derail the investigation, Keya fears that justice may never be served.

Can Keya dig into the mystery and uncover the real culprit?

Earl Grey and Shallow Graves is the first book in the Waterwheel Café Mystery series. If you enjoy clever puzzles, warm friendships and life in the Cotswolds, you’ll love Victoria Tait’s engaging British cozy mystery.

Read Earl Grey and Shallow Graves and discover the secrets buried beneath the Cotswolds today!

Good plot.

All the characters sounded alike. I couldn’t tell who was talking to whom. Very distracting.

AI should not be used to read a novel

The AI as a reader was very bad. I didn’t enjoy that part at all. I had to insert what I felt they should be expressing as they read the story was good. The reading was not.

Light and cozy

Virtual voice did a bad job of intonation as well as missing punctuation cues. I listening to it was not pleasant.

AI Kills any Story

AI is great in so many ways, but AI reading a book is horrific. The story could have been interesting, but the characters were never flushed out enough for you to care about them. I just found that the book was free for a reason.