Audiobook4 hours
Murder at the Lighthouse
Written by Frances Evesham
Narrated by Jennifer M. Dixon
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
4/5
()
About this audiobook
Everyone knows the dead woman under the lighthouse, but no one seems to know why she died. What brought the folk-rock star back to Exham on Sea after so many years? Who wanted her dead? Does the key to her murder lie in the town, or far away across the Atlantic?
Libby Forest arrives in Exham to build a new life making cakes and chocolates, and discovers a talent for solving mysteries, helped by Bear, an enormous Carpathian Sheepdog, and a cast of local characters.
The green fields, rolling hills and sandy beaches of England's West Country provide a perfect setting for crime, intrigue and mystery.
Libby Forest arrives in Exham to build a new life making cakes and chocolates, and discovers a talent for solving mysteries, helped by Bear, an enormous Carpathian Sheepdog, and a cast of local characters.
The green fields, rolling hills and sandy beaches of England's West Country provide a perfect setting for crime, intrigue and mystery.
Author
Frances Evesham
Frances Evesham is the bestselling author of the hugely successful Exham-on-Sea murder mysteries set in her home county of Somerset, and the Ham-Hill cosy crime series set in South Somerset.
More audiobooks from Frances Evesham
A Ham Hill Mystery
Related to Murder at the Lighthouse
Titles in the series (5)
Murder at the Lighthouse Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Murder on the Levels Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Murder on the Tor Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Murder at the Cathedral Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Murder at the Bridge Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related audiobooks
Murder on the Tor Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Murder on the Levels Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Murder at the Cathedral Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Murder at the Bridge Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Murder at the Castle Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Murder at the Gorge: The latest gripping murder mystery from bestseller Frances Evesham Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Murder at the Abbey Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Racing Murder: A gripping cosy murder mystery from bestseller Frances Evesham Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Harvest Murder: A cozy crime murder mystery from Frances Evesham Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Flower Show Murder: Monica Noble Detective, Book 2 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Murder in the Family Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Manor House Murder: Monica Noble Detective, Book 3 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Vicarage Murder: Monica Noble Detective, Book 1 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Murder on Thames - Cherringham - A Cosy Crime Series: Mystery Shorts 1 (Unabridged) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5When The Party Died Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Murder of the Bride Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Murder at the Mousetrap Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Murder at the University Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Murder on the Oxford Canal Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Death in Cornwall Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bunburry - A Cosy Mystery Compilation, Episode 1-3 (Unabridged) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5An Occupied Grave Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Shot in the Dark - Mydworth Mysteries - A Cosy Historical Mystery Series, Episode 1 (Unabridged) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Tomb in Turkey Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Murder at Redmire Hall Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Alibi For A Corpse: Pollard & Toye Investigations Book 3 Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Body in the Dales Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Death at the Abbey Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Beatrice Stubbs Boxset One Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Cozy Mysteries For You
The Secret of Poppyridge Cove Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Marlow Murder Club Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Marple: Twelve New Mysteries Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Golden Spoon: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mother-Daughter Murder Night: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Traitor at Poppyridge Cove Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Holding: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bad Housekeeping Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bad Neighbors Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Murder Undeniable Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Gone with the Ghost Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sniffing Out The Spy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Publishable By Death Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Murder Unexpected Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Little Shop of Hidden Treasures: a joyful and heart-warming novel you won't want to miss Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Crow Folk: The Witches of Woodville 1 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Death and Croissants Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Once Upon A Ghost Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Swann Dive Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Crepe to Die For Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Merry Murders 1: The Keys to Murder Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Gilt Trip Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Murder at an Irish Christmas Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Secret, Book & Scone Society Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Magic, Lies, and Deadly Pies Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Night Shift Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Day Shift Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How the Ghost Stole Christmas Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman Burglar Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Reviews for Murder at the Lighthouse
Rating: 3.76582278164557 out of 5 stars
4/5
158 ratings14 reviews
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I loved this story!! Great characters and an excellent story!
1 person found this helpful
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Very short, throughly enjoyable start to a series. Will definitely continue!
1 person found this helpful
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great series, looking forward to more in the series. This one was the best so far
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I found the narration very flat and the characters very simplistic.
In addition there was a very unnecessary mills and boon type romantic thread. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A pleasant listen in the first of a series by Francis Evesham. The narrator takes a little getting used to but you do get lost in the characters and it does make you want to listen to the next chapter
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wonderful, wonderful story. Narraters voice was clear with great expression. Such a pleasure to listen to. Can’t wait for the next one.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Quite an enjoyable, quick read, cozy mystery. Will read next in series.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The plot of this story is so lame, and one murder is not solved, almost as though the author forgot about it. The murderer only appears at the end and his character is undeveloped. And I did not care for the narrator.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Has you guessing to the very end!! Great adventure!
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Libby Forest moves from London after her husband's death to the small seaside village of Exham. While walking her neighbor's dog on the beach, she discovers the body of woman who she later learns had been a village resident 20 years ago. The police decide that it was an accidental drowning but Libby isn't so sure. It was any okay mystery but it seem to just follow the normal pattern - find body, want to know more, get involved when you shouldn't. It didn't have any punch, no characters that really stood out.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I have been reading more and more cozy and historical mysteries of late, so I am always on the lookout for a new series to love. I believe I have found both an excellent author and series. I am really not a fan of those female sleuths who are just Nosey-Nellies. The ones that are in-you-face and expect anybody and everybody to answer their much too personal questions, while thumbing their noses at the inept police at the same time. I was so very happy to see this book didn’t follow that format. The writing is excellent, the mystery is well-plotted and excellently paced, and the characters are well-developed and very likable. I will definitely be reading more books in this series.After the death of her misanthropic husband (who she does not mourn), Libby Forest decides to leave London and move to the small Somerset village of Exham On Sea. In Exham she can have a job, write her cookbook, open a patisserie, and all of those many other things she wasn’t allowed to do while her husband, Trevor was alive. She’s loving her small cottage, her wonderfully re-done cook’s kitchen, and the new friends she has made in the village. All is right with her world – until she takes her neighbor’s dog for a walk on the beach and discovers a body …The victim is a former villager who had prospered in America. Nobody had seen her in over twenty years – why was she back now? Why did no one know she was here? When Detective Sergeant Joe Ramshore immediately decides it was an accident, Libby just can’t believe it. Something just isn’t right about all of it. The murder is the talk of the village and as Libby learns more about the woman who died, she wants to know even more. As she learns more, she’s convinced it was murder and begins to investigate even more. Then, there is a second death and again, Ramshore decides it was an accident. Given the circumstances, Libby is sure it wasn’t.During the investigation, we meet a lovely cast of characters. There is the handsome, mysterious Max Ramshore – estranged father of Detective Sergeant Ramshore. There is Fuzzy, the irascible marmalade cat who delights in NOT showing Libby any affection. Bear is a huge, lovable, usually good-natured Carpathian Sheepdog you’ll want to adopt. Of course, there is Frank the baker (and Libby’s boss), and Mandy the teenage Goth waitress at the bakery, and many others in the town. They are a delightful bunch and you’ll enjoy meeting them all.It was fun watching Libby unraveling the clues and solving a murder that had roots twenty years in the past. You can even feel a bit of sympathy for the perpetrator – at least for the first murder – and we are left to just assume that the same person committed both murders. I will definitely be reading other books in this series.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5cosy-mystery, England, family-dynamics, friendship, twisty, abusive-spouse, murder, law-enforcement, small-business, small-town****I liked it. More of a novella length which made the task of fitting everything in quite a task for the author. She finds a body and the detective brushes her off when she suggests murder. Then the Medical Examiner weighs in. Not deathless prose but a nice cozy to keep me company while doing household tasks.Jennifer M. Dixon seemed to be an interested narrator but with allergies making her voice a bit nasal and my midwestern self needed to listen at 1.2 speed (not a complaint).
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This is a pretty good mystery, as far as the plot goes.Unfortunately, neither the characters nor the setting really popped for me. They had a lot of promise! but just did not end up vivid- they were all more grayed out.Libby, in particular, didn't seem to have any center. Part of that was, I think, intentional; her life is undergoing a lot of serious shifts- but she tended to drift through her days, and the various aspects of her life simply did not make sense to me. She was a cipher, and that's usually not a good thing in a protagonist.And Max, her love interest, is also a cipher, but one that seems to have infinite resources for plot advancement when he bothers to use them.Another quibble: what small-town bakery has any need or money to hire a full-time recipe developer???It's not a bad book, and was an entertaining read- it just doesn't make much sense if you think about ut it.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This is a cute cozy mystery with the main character being a mature woman starting a new life in a small seaside town.While Libby is walking a dog along the beach she finds a dead body under the lighthouse. It's determined that it was Susie Bennett, a woman who lived there long ago but had gone to America to become a rock star. The police say it was suicide but Libby doesn't think so. In this mystery, Libby starts talking to the locals about Susie and coming up with more and more reasons why she doesn't think Susie killed herself. Too bad that people didn't think much of her ideas. Since she was new in town, she hadn't known the dead woman so they didn't think she knew what she was talking about. Little did they know that because she hadn't lived there all her life, she was in a better position to look at the facts objectively.