Dark Road to Darjeeling

De: Deanna Raybourn

Narrado por: Ellen Archer

Lady Julia Grey travels through India, accompanied by her sister, Portia, her brother, Plum, and occasionally her husband - Brisbane. Along the way, Portia becomes convinced of a murder, and all four are pulled into the dark underbelly of 19th-century India.

©2010 Deanna Rayburn (P)2010 Audible, Inc.

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"Narrator Ellen Archer dives into the story with abandon and is clearly enjoying herself with the rich cast of characters, including an upper-crust English spinster, a disheveled Welsh doctor, and the White Rajah, a charismatic hermit who lives in a nearby monastery. Archer also offers a thoughtful, rich performance as Julia, who slyly competes with her husband to solve the case." ( AudioFile)

Mesmerizing

I have listen to 4 of the Lady Julia Grey Mysteries and I am mesmerized. I have the 5th book ready for listening and I can’t wait to begin.

Too tragic

If you liked the earlier novels you’ll probably like this one but some of the events are terrible tragic.

I love this series!

I'm glad Lady Julia and Brisbane are back! Their romance is so sweet, Brisbane is a very good detective and the story plot is well thought out. I loved this book the hours flew by and I wish it was longer.

Love it

I have enjoyed all the books in this series so far. I would recommend this book.

Amazing narration

The narrator is amazing as always, I never really noticed it but the way she does Brisbanes voice is amazing, you definitely hear the part Scottish in the voice, at first I wasnt sure if it was on accident but now I know it's on purpose. Theres also a part near the end where she sings a bit too, lovely voice!

Excellent as always!

This series gets better and better! I love the mix of wit, romance, mystery and a good dose of comedy to allay the emotion brought on by the quite devilish murders the main characters must solve. They are complex and well created.

I really appreciate that there’s growth and development in the characters and their relationship with each other. Each of the characters are superbly written!

Ellen Archer’s narration is flawless and I forget I’m listening to a book, getting swept up in the voices and the story. It’s like listening to a movie or a play. She is a wizard with the different accents and making sure each character has their own unique sound.

Please, please keep writing books for this series!!! It is one of my favorites and I can’t wait for the next book!!!!

Meh!

Not as good as the others. Too
Much detail... too little Brisbane. Keep on though, The next book is much better.

funny romance mystery

I realize that Deanna Raybourn is not up there with Virginia Woolf but I love her Lady Jane Grey mysteries. I guess they are published by Harlequin but while they have a love story angle they are definitely not a poor woman's porno like some books in the romantic genre. Raybourn does a good plot, her characters are richly drawn and very appealing (or hateful as the case may be or the story calls for) and she has a witty, tongue in cheek style.
I'm amazed at the comments criticizing Ellen Archer. For me she strikes just the right note for these stories. I believe that at one time a different narrator was tried for one or two of this series but there must have been a big outcry because they redid them with Ellen Archer which I found a big relief. I would be very sad if they tried to replace her again.

Superb 4th book in series

The only negative was the reader's mispronunciation of R. Tagore at the beginning of each chapter.

Way too close to an abusive relationship...

The narrator is excellent in this series. That said...

Let me say that I have really liked this author, and I actually started with her other series, and began this series after "catching up" with that series. While I enjoy her writing on the whole, I am thinking I really should have stopped reading this series at the end of the third book Silent on the Moor, or the novella Midsummer Night.

This time around both of the main characters are behaving like spoiled children who refuse to take responsibility for their own actions or the consequences of those actions. There is manipulations, lies, verbal abuse, denigrating /attacking the essence of who the other person is, locking the other in a separate room, using sex to shut down dialogue, and a threat of divorce.

The whole idea that gets perpetuated in romances--including this series--that one partner might hurt other people, but never the "beloved". This belief is what keeps people in abusive relationships. Since domestic violence is one of the major causes of death for women in the U.S. I really, really dislike this trope, and wish Ms. Raybourn had not perpetrated it in this series.

Really not as pleased with this novel compared to previous books (which I rate as 4 or 5 stars) .