Murder on the Great Ocean Walk

Ruth Finlay Mysteries, Book 4

By: Isobel Blackthorn

Narrated by: Natalie Beran

When her zany neighbour Doris Cleaver invites Ruth Finlay on a hiking tour with a mixed group of trauma survivors, neither anticipates that they'll have to solve a murder.

When one of the party, a nurse from Melbourne, is found dead in her room before they’ve even started the hike in Apollo Bay, they know there is a killer in their midst. Then, on that same day, one of the tour group disappears.

As Ruth battles a bout of influenza that leaves her weak and scarcely able to think, Doris gets up to her usual cantankerous antics. But are they being followed and why does the group seem to have a death wish, putting themselves in mortal danger on a daily basis?

An unputdownable mystery set in a wilderness of steep cliffs and tidal beaches, Murder on the Great Ocean Walk is the fourth book in Isobel Blackthorn's Ruth Finlay Mysteries series.

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Women cozy mystery

Murder on the Great Ocean Walk by Isobel Blackthorn is an excellent cozy crime mystery. Natalie Beran did an incredible job with the narration. The story is entertaining, interesting, cozy, engaging, enjoyable, fun, and more. Murder on the Great Ocean Walk is the fourth book in Ruth Finlay Mysteries series. Highly recommend

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Flu, death and the Great Ocean walk

Journalist Ruth Finlay is resting at home suffering with the flu. Her neighbor Doris bullies Ruth into accompanying her on a hiking tour of Australia’s Great Ocean Walk. Ruth needs stories for the magazine so inconceivably agrees to go on a week long trek while she’s sick. I just happened to be sick in bed with the flu listening to this audiobook and the hike exhausted me! A person on the tour died, another disappeared, and Doris insists they investigate. Poor Ruth is dragging herself across beaches, through water, across cliffs and forests when she should be tucked up in bed. I looked up the walk and got a visual of the beautiful scenery, which I enjoyed with all the books in the series. I didn’t like Doris bullying Ruth, nor the group ostracizing Ruth, and the tour directors scamming and cheating the tour group. I did like Ruth learning about her heritage and finding love with her new boyfriend. I hope the series continues and if so, that Ruth learns to say NO! The narration was outstanding. It brought the characters and story to life.