A Listing To Die For

A Lily Sprayberry Cozy Mystery

De: Carolyn Ridder Aspenson

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Lily is back and she's got a baby on board!

Listing homes can be murder.

Just when I thought juggling diaper duty with dazzling real estate deals was my biggest challenge, life throws me a curveball. The biggest listing of my career lands on my desk, and I can practically hear the cha-ching of the largest commission in my career. I’m talking the kind that gets my six month old daughter four years at an out-of-state college, when she’s 18, of course. When she’s ready, of course.

But when I arrive to meet the homeowner, I find the house empty, and the door locked. I decide to explore the estate, but instead of finding a breathtaking garden, I find Janice—my biggest competitor for the listing—lifeless among the roses.
Being married to the Sheriff doesn’t keep me off the suspect list, especially since my fingerprints are on the weapon. Now my career, as well as my husbands, is in jeopardy. The high stakes of the real estate game have never felt so real. I have to clear my name, but where do I start? The list of potential suspects is as long as the scroll of dream homes I’ve sold.

But the killer leaves an ominous warning: stick to selling houses, Lily, or you might just end up as garden décor like Janice.
It’s a grim offer, but I’ve never been one to back down from a challenge, especially when the decor is so... fatal. So, with a cautious step and a hopeful heart, I tread the perilous path of murder, aiming to outwit the danger lurking behind each corner.

Dying for a real narrator

I got this series because of the story line and I was curious, that being said there was a few disappointments for me.
1. the virtual voice was a HUGE let down for me. It lacked the lilt for expression that I enjoy with a regular narrator.
2. I found the story often difficult to follow because the virtual voice didn't change the tone from one character to the next making it difficult to know who was speaking between characters. (ie 2 different females) Sometimes I had to rewind to listen again so I didn't miss a clue/or a conversation. Both funny one liners and sarcasm was lost due to poor virtual voice not having any sense of timing, or lilt in the reading - Think of it like Alexa reading you the newspaper -
3. Nothing is worse that getting a series and Audible doesn't identify which is book it is in the series. There is nothing in the titles to identify book 1 and book 2, etc etc etc - nor does it provide the link to follow the next in the series so you don't know how many books are in the series or what the name of the next book is - I find it annoying if I buy books and have them all but don't know the order - what's the point of getting the series if you don't know the order or how many in the series?