Limelight

Penny Green Series, Book 1

By: Emily Organ

Narrated by: Gabrielle Baker

How did an actress die twice?

London, 1883. Actress Lizzie Dixie drowned in the River Thames, so how was she murdered five years later in Highgate Cemetery?

Intrepid Fleet Street reporter Penny Green was a friend of Lizzie's, and Scotland Yard needs her help. Does Penny unwittingly hold clues to Lizzie's mysterious death? Penny must work with Inspector James Blakely to investigate the worlds of theater, showmen, and politicians in search of the truth. But who is following her? And who is sending her threatening letters?

Penny is about to discover that Lizzie's life was more complicated, and dangerous, than she could ever have imagined.

©2017 Emily Organ (P)2018 Tantor

A good one for fans of Anne Perry

If you enjoy the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novels of Anne Perry, you'll be very comfortable with this novel. While Penny and the inspector are not married, in fact, just meet in this novel, they work together well, bounce ideas off each other, and make their way thru a number of red herrings to get to the truth of the murder. The ending was satisfying, and the characters throughout the book were well developed and interesting personalities. As in Anne Perry's books, the historical manner of living provides a backdrop for the story.

𝑭𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝒂𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒐𝒃𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒔!

𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒆𝒏𝒋𝒐𝒚𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒃𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒕𝒐𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝒊 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒎𝒄 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊 𝒆𝒏𝒋𝒐𝒚𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒐𝒓, 𝒂 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒇𝒖𝒏 𝒄𝒊𝒛𝒚 𝒘𝒉𝒐𝒅𝒖𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒕! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟💗

Enjoyed

I definitely enjoyed this novel, it was fun and I liked Penny & James, Penny’s sister & landlady and few of the other characters. A few were annoying at times but overall, I enjoyed the writing. It was different and shows promise for a series. I also liked the narrator, Gabrielle Baker.

Better be abridged!

Way too long till almost the very end, repetitive, dragged and dragged, I kept fastforwarding. A bit too many not very believable coincidences. The narrator does not make a clear distinction between characters in dialogues, it was often v. confusing. However, the resolution was unexpected and satisfying!

iveting every Moment

A new author for Me and well
l worth the trial. I intend to continue and read the series . I am that impressed with the tentative reporter\forced-to-be-detective and the (for a nice change)friendly,handsome police Inspector. The story is fresh with only one murder of an actress, somtime courtesan. It does seem like everyone has a part-time job except the Inspector.

Entered the period and enjoyed !

love the characters and story was grt! looking forward to learning more about them all!

Nice read

The ending had a twist that I didn't guess and that always makes me happy. I liked the book and will probably read more in the series but I didn't love it. But it has potential.

Clean and Charming Victorian Mystery

I think this was a delightful read. I loved the narrator and this is one of the few books I think are better listened to than read. I gave it 4 instead of 5 stars because it is a little slower; but I found the characters and time period so endearing that I didn't want to skip ahead or return it. At the end, you understand why some of the "slower" stuff was in the middle. I wasn't surprised by who the murderer was, but then there were a couple quick twists that did catch me off guard at the end, and I liked that. I have already bought the second and look forward to listening to it.

I don't like reading stories with teenagers as the leads because there tends to be petty drama. I liked that this book had adult main characters, but didn't have any swearing or sex scenes, and wasn't Hallmark cheesy. There is discussion of consorts, but it isn't uncomfortable or detailed. They acknowledge that life style exists and it plays into the murder, but that's it. I would feel good with anyone 12+ listening to this. Buy it!

I might not finish it.

I thought this series would be promising, but right at the beginning when the landlady was introduced, Mrs. Garnet from British West Africa, and the narrator uses an approximation of a West Indian accent for the character, I was put off. How disrespectful to take care to differentiate accents from different postcodes of The UK, but can’t be bothered to figure out that populations that live more than 8,000 miles apart don’t sound the same. Ignorance about places where Black and brown people are in the majority is not acceptable.

Too long and too unbelievable

I had enjoyed Emily Organ’s delightful Churchill and Pemberley series. I had expected something similar in a more serious vein, but found instead a book of unlikable characters. Way too many coincidences to be endured. Incredible the way people would just allow the main character into their lives. The reading was also annoying—the reader was unable to lower her voice to even the high range of a man. Made the men sound so wimpy. A waste of money