The Lord of Cold Compton

Miss Busby Investigates, Book 3

By: Karen Baugh Menuhin, Zoe Markham

Narrated by: Corrie James

Lord of Cold Compton

Book 3 In the Miss Busby Series

A woman lies dead, shot and bleeding. Behind her body stands a large old manor house, her house, and now her son's.

She ran the rural estate as a minor fiefdom, all had to subjugate themselves to her will, or they were put out of their homes and ejected from the community.

Lady Compton was hated, nobody mourned her passing, but her murder brought suspicion and dismay to the closely allied village, and it brought the police into their midst.

Everyone has secrets, just as she had. Was the secret the cause of her murder? Had her deceit finally caught up with her? Was the man rumoured to be the culprit really the killer? Not that anyone would name him, not to outsiders, anyway.

Miss Busby is unaware of these undercurrents, until her advice, and help, is sought. It's a terrible dilemma, she is told. No-one knows what to do. Should the police be told? Or should silence prevail?

Whatever she does will put her in contention with Inspector McKay and he has distractions enough.

If you love Agatha Christie, Miss Marple, you'll love this.

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I love this series!

A very cozy series. Reminds me of modern day Ms Marple. I am enjoying getting to know the regular characters.

Not as good as the Heathcliff series

Trying hard to like this series and that it would get better with each book. I will listen to the other series repeatedly but just not finding the stories or characters interesting. Might be my last book in this series

Lovable fun characters

Enjoyed this book. I was kept guessing whodunit. I did find the setting of the big reveal too straight forward and lacked the ‘pull rabbit out of hat’ surprise factor, but I guess that was the style for Miss Busby series. It was still an overall very enjoyable audio book, with likeable characters like Miss Busby and Adeline, who was such a loud funny friend.
Narrator was very very good. She gave all characters such distinct voices that you won’t mix them up.

Great series 5/5

I am so entertained while listening to this series. Karen Baugh Menuhin’s writing have never disappointed added to Corrie James’s narration are perfection.

It's OK

I almost quit during the first third of the book. Eventually the story picked up steam and I was able to finish and not feel as though I wasted a credit. I know it's not Lenox, which I truly enjoy, but somehow these characters lack the charm the Lenox series has. I really do not like Adeline, but she is not the reason the series has no spark for me. Obviously there are mostly five star ratings but if you had mixed feelings about the first two books, you may not want to bother with book three.

Love the Miss Busby mystery’s

I really enjoyed this book, I was glad when I saw there was a third one ,hope there will be more. The stories witty and well written ,I didn’t guess the who done it till the end and the narrator is excellent.

Boring

Beautiful writing, but the story was very slow and just not very interesting.

Not an engaging story

Characters were stereotypes with little interest. Predictable storyline. I wasted a credit on this one.

Not for me

I enjoyed the Lennox books for the most part but these Miss Busby titles don‘t do much for me. I had mostly fun in the first one, but the second was already a bit of a struggle. This third title made me give up around the middle of it. There‘s just nothing there that keeps me. The writing is lackluster and the main character is a non-entity for me. Her sidekick Adeleine is annoying as hell though but has more life than most of the other characters. Just not the sort of character I would want to spend any time with at all. Also, the situations are more and more … uninspired and you‘ve seen/read similar elsewhere.

I‘m sure others will find this series equally or more so interesting than the Lennox books - but I would suggest to the author to spend more time on writing and - even more importantly - editing than cranking them out at this pace. One book a year is sufficient. Same goes for the Lennox books, IMHO. I‘m guessing this is why the author brought another writer in to help her out. Better than have AI help her out, although judging by how this reads, I‘m not sure there isn‘t a generous dollop of that included, as it‘s just bland and faceless.

The reading is excellent though. I like it and it‘s probably also a large part why I‘ve stuck with it this long.