Killing in C Sharp by Alexia Gordon Narrator: Helen Duff
Series: Gethsemane Brown Mysteries #3
Published by Dreamscape Media on March 27, 2018
Source: Library
Genres: Cozy Mystery, Paranormal
Length: 9 hrs 30 mins
Pages: 266
Format: Audiobook
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She saved Carraigfaire—but can she save her friends?
Gethsemane Brown fought off an attack by a sleazy hotel developer who wanted to turn her Irish cottage into a tourist trap. Now she must face a vengeful ghost determined to exact revenge for her murder centuries ago.
This ghost’s wrath spares no one—not Gethsemane’s students, Inspector Niall O’Reilly, fellow teacher Frankie Grennan, or a group of ghost hunters descended on Dunmullach to capture proof ghosts exist.
Proof Gethsemane has to quash to keep Eamon, her resident ghost and friend, from becoming an internet sensation.
As if a spiteful specter wasn’t bad enough, a crooked music reviewer turns up dead in the opera house orchestra pit, a famous composer is arrested for the crime, and Gethsemane must team up with a notorious true-crime author to clear his name.
If she doesn’t, friends will die, a ghost she cares about will never know peace, and she’ll star in a final act gruesome enough for any opera.
I read the first Gethsemane Brown mystery back in 2016 when it came out, but never got back to the series. Last year I watched the show on Hallmark mysteries, which was fun. Killing in C Sharp has been sitting on my to-read list for probably years now, but the audio was available from the library and I was in the mood for something light. (I’m always in the mood for something light.)
There is a lot going on in this one. Ghost hunters have come to Gethsemane’s cottage to prove her friend and resident ghost, Eamon, exists. A true crime writer is in town working on an updated version of the book she wrote on Eamon and his wife. Aed, a once-famous composer, is premiering his new opera at the opera house and giving a couple guest lectures at the school. He is followed by the reviewer who nearly killed his career with a bad review. And the opera manages to conjure the ghost of its subject, Maja, and her curse. Then, of course, someone is murdered.
The paranormal elements are well-done and believable within the world. Gethsemane is a good character, smart, talented, a bit blunt. She has a few friends in town now and how much she cares for them shines through. Looking for a killer and trying to put a stop to the curse is a lot. The mystery plot is put together well, with a good trail of clues.
I like that the music and the characters. I listened to the audio and the narrator did a very good job, especially with Gethsemane’s voice She makes her sound different than the typical cozy sleuth, gives her more personality.
I think I saw that they’re working on another Hallmark movie, which I will definitely watch.
About Alexia Gordon
A writer since childhood, Alexia Gordon won her first writing prize in the 6th grade. She continued writing through college but put literary endeavors on hold to finish medical school and Family Medicine residency training. She established her medical career then returned to writing fiction. Raised in the southeast, schooled in the northeast, she relocated to the west where she completed Southern Methodist University’s Writer’s Path program. She admits Texas brisket is as good as Carolina pulled pork. She practices medicine in El Paso. She enjoys the symphony, art collecting, embroidery, and ghost stories.
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