Missing from Dunhaven Castle

Cate Kensie Cozy Mysteries, Book 6

De: Nellie H. Steele

Narrado por: Malorie Wallen

She’s solved mysteries before but never without her best friend. Can she find him before it’s too late?

Cate Kensie’s life is thrown into chaos when she is plagued by a mysterious illness she never knew existed. With random roamings and unpredictable fainting spells, only her time-traveling buddy, Jack, can protect her from herself. But when he goes missing, both of their lives are plunged into danger.

With the help of a mysterious group from across the pond, Cate must battle a powerful network of villains who want her dead and find Jack before it’s too late. Will she be able to uncover the truth and save the ones she loves or will she end up sacrificing something irreplaceable?

If you like fantasy-filled cozy mysteries, you’ll love Missing from Dunhaven Castle, Book 6 in the Cate Kensie Mysteries where the Shadow Slayers make a dramatic return to Dunhaven.

Grab now and search for Jack today!

©2023 Melissa Marie Sovak (P)2025 A Novel Idea Publishing, LLC

Narrator

I've enjoyed the other books, but something about the narrator on this one seemed robotic and lacked feeling. Also, I don't feel like Cate was so vulnerable in the last books, but she seemed more of damsel in distress in this one which felt off.

Narrator

i didn't care for the narrator. i found her hard to listen to. Very almost robotic.

Loved the story but...

It was a great story as always with this authors but the narration was weird. It was a very robotic presentation. Also the different accents were less than marginal.

I generally don’t leave negative reviews but I’m so frustrated…

I couldn’t wait to listen to Missing From Dunhaven Castle after speeding through the first 5 books in the series. But what started off as a very promising premise quickly made me lose interest when the author seemed to completely abandon established relationships and the central plot of the series for something “edgier”.

****SPOILERS****
While I’ve had some issues with clunky writing in the previous books I happily overlooked that because the premise of the series is fantastic! A smart, capable, courageous, generous, kind, woman who solves mysteries and time travels? Yes, please! Found family? Yes! Handsome bff who is kind, gentle, loyal, and caring? Yes! A castle in the Scottish Highlands and a long lost family title? I’m hooked.
But here we are in book 6 with Cate reduced to a simpering, swooning, damsel in distress who seems to serve the sole purpose of having every man around her paw at her and fawn over her? If one more man she barely knows or likes in this book brushes hair out of her face, grabs her hand, or cups her face I might actually throw myself into a river. I lost count of the number of times I yelled out loud irl “don’t TOUCH her!”
The author removed her presumed love interest who actually presented a very healthy and supportive presence in her life from the plot of the previous 5 books just to replace him with the edgy, ever so popular on booktok, morally gray, arrogant, shallow, yet handsome, male protagonist who is supposed to make our hearts go pitter patter after only a few chapters of him only being slightly less misogynistic and terrible than he was in the previous book when he kidnapped her, berated her, threatened her, left her for dead, and was just all around creepily obsessed with her? Cate deserves better. I DNF’ed at around the 15th time she clung to Marcus’ arm directly following an incident of him disrespecting her/lying to her/denying her agency and it became apparent that Jack was being shunted to the side in favor of a less interesting, less developed, more toxic, option. Unfortunately I won’t be returning to Dunhaven Castle for the new books in the series and frankly I feel let down and a bit betrayed to have invested so much time and emotional capital into the core characters (Cate, Jack, Mrs. and Mr. Fraser, Mr. Reed, and Molly) only to have the author jettison them 2/3 of the way through the series. I’ll just have to dream of what this series could have been.