A Lesson in Murder

Cherringham. A Cosy Crime Series - Mystery Shorts 13

By: Matthew Costello, Neil Richards

Narrated by: Neil Dudgeon

Length: 2 hrs and 17 mins

Publisher's summary

When Jack and Sarah are called in to investigate mysterious pranks at an exclusive girls' private school, it seems at first that it might be the work of a few mean pupils with a grudge. But things quickly turn serious when a popular teacher meets a sudden, violent death. Now, with murder in the air, Jack and Sarah have their own lessons to learn about the Cherringham Girls School, its dark secrets... and who wanted that teacher dead before they learned the truth.

Cherringham is a serial novel à la Charles Dickens, with a new audio episode released every two weeks. Set in the sleepy English village of Cherringham, the detective series brings together an unlikely sleuthing duo: English web designer Sarah and American ex-cop Jack. Thrilling and deadly - but with a spot of tea - it's like Rosamunde Pilcher meets Inspector Barnaby.

Each of the self-contained episodes is a quick listen for the morning commute, while waiting for the doctor, or when curling up with a hot cuppa. For fans of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple series, Lilian Jackson Braun's "The Cat Who" series, Caroline Graham's "Midsomer Murders", and the American TV series "Murder She Wrote", starring Angela Lansbury.

Co-authors Neil Richards (based in the UK) and Matthew Costello (based in the US), have been writing together since the mid 90's, creating content and working on projects for the BBC, Disney Channel, Sony, ABC, Eidos, and Nintendo to name but a few. Their transatlantic collaboration has underpinned scores of TV drama scripts, computer games, radio shows, and - most recently - the successful crime fiction series Cherringham. The narrator of the audiobook, Neil Dudgeon, has been in many British television programmes including the roles of "DCI John Barnaby" in "Midsomer Murders" and "Jim Riley" in "The Life of Riley". He is also known for his film roles in "The Nativity", "Sorted" and "Son of Rambow". In 2012 Dudgeon starred as "Norman Birkett" on BBC Radio 4's Afternoon Play series written by Caroline and David Stafford.

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I love these short stories!

Three hours is enough to tell a complete story when it takes place in Cherringham.

Over the course of several books I have watched the characters develop and become a real team. Jack and Sarah are both likable and human - they make mistakes but learn from them.

These are a great fill-in between weightier tomes. I can finish one in an afternoon and feel satisfied.

Very good story

This was s good. story it was one by had to keep listening to the end

Well done!

secrets, lies, boarding-school, suspense, serial, ex-cop, small-business, small-town, amateur-sleuth, investigation, short, cosy-mystery, family, friendship, law-enforcement, Cotswolds*****

In this episode Jack and Sarah are inveigled into a very quiet investigation into some very nasty pranks at a VERY pricey girls boarding school and find some interesting things despite marked obstruction by the admin of that very institution. Unusual.
Love this idea of a series given in short bursts that are just the right size as well as so much more flexible than a whole novel! The ongoing sleuthing involves a retired and widowed older NYPD homicide cop who is finding life in the English countryside a fair antidote to his mourning, and a local recently divorced woman who has returned to her hometown with her children. They make a good sleuthing pair.
Voice actor Neil Dudgeon has been an excellent asset to my listening pleasure, making sure that
I know who's talking while I do mindless things.