12/01/2017
The second volume featuring Gethsemane Brown has the talented musician, an American living in Ireland, trying to locate the friendly ghost from the first book, Murder in G Major, to discourage a crass American developer from buying her historic (rental) cottage. She inadvertently wakes up another specter, an 18th-century sea captain who reluctantly offers his perspective on Patience Freeman, a free African American child in 18th-century Williamsburg, VA. Patience stitched a schoolgirl sampler owned by an Irish art collector. Soon the rare sampler is missing, the art collector is dead, and Gethsemane and Jackson, her visiting brother-in-law, a textile curator, are the top suspects. Gethsemane, however, identifies a plethora of suspects as she steps into the local art world to clear their names. Reader Helen Duff delivers a likable Irish accent but does not offer enough vocal contrasts to identify the many Irish characters—police, art dealers, servants—and perseverance is needed to follow the plot. She portrays the crude developer as the stereotype he is, with a flat drawl. Gethsemane's voice is attractively low, with a believable Southern accent. However, even main characters Gethsemane and Jackson are occasionally indistinguishable. VERDICT Not recommended.—Juleigh Muirhead Clark, Williamsburg, VA
After solving a string of murders and getting used to living with a snarky ghost, Gethsemane Brown tries to rest easy. But, in this second book in the series, her roomie disappears, her landlord decides to sell her cottage to a developer, and her brother-in-law comes to visit. The ever-resourceful African American musician and expatriate scrambles to call her spectral roomie back from beyond and to find a way to save the cottage from destruction, but those concerns take a backseat when her brother-in-law is accused of stealing a valuable antique. In order to try to save him, Gethsemane strikes a deal with an investigator to go undercover and snoop for evidence of a forgery/theft ring. But while snooping, she accidentally conjures the ghost of an eighteenth-century sea captain, ends up the prime suspect for a murder, and-as she races to untangle a web of phony art and stolen antiques to exonerate both herself and her brother-in-law-the killer targets her...
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Death in D Minor
After solving a string of murders and getting used to living with a snarky ghost, Gethsemane Brown tries to rest easy. But, in this second book in the series, her roomie disappears, her landlord decides to sell her cottage to a developer, and her brother-in-law comes to visit. The ever-resourceful African American musician and expatriate scrambles to call her spectral roomie back from beyond and to find a way to save the cottage from destruction, but those concerns take a backseat when her brother-in-law is accused of stealing a valuable antique. In order to try to save him, Gethsemane strikes a deal with an investigator to go undercover and snoop for evidence of a forgery/theft ring. But while snooping, she accidentally conjures the ghost of an eighteenth-century sea captain, ends up the prime suspect for a murder, and-as she races to untangle a web of phony art and stolen antiques to exonerate both herself and her brother-in-law-the killer targets her...
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Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940175703147 |
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| Publisher: | Dreamscape Media |
| Publication date: | 07/11/2017 |
| Series: | Gethsemane Brown , #2 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |
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