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Victoria Trumbull is a feisty ninety-two-year-old who refuses to let her age stop her from having fun—or investigating crime. When Victoria's knowledge of her native Martha's Vineyard helped to solve a murder in Deadly Nightshade, she earned her own baseball cap emblazoned with "West Tisbury Police Deputy." Now the authorities will turn to her again to help uncover another scandal on the idyllic island.Phoebe Eldridge, a short-tempered woman who lives alone, has sold the family land to a show more developer who made an offer that seemed too good to resist. When the Conservation Trust enlists Victoria to search that land for an endangered plant, she and her eleven-year-old after-school assistant are rewarded with the discovery of a little nest of cranefly orchids—and a body. If Victoria isn't careful, a killer might take her off the endangered list—and make her extinct.
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This audiobook took place in Martha's Vineyard, providing a delightful setting. The description of the Island is undoubtedly accurate as the author ,Cynthia Riggs, lives on Martha's Vineyard. Her feisty, 92 year-old amateur sleuth, regarded as an honorary deputy to the West Tisbury Police Department for all her help in solving another crime in Riggs' first book, is at it again. She is asked by the Conservation Trust on the Island to find the beautiful and delicate Cranefly Orchard on land that has been sold by a crotchety inhabitant of the Island. As she searches with her 11 year old assistant, whom she grows very fond of, they discover the body of a local attorney. The suspense builds and the ending does not fail to excite us as show more Victoria bravely carries on in the face of crafty criminals trying to get away with their plan. I would be willing to listen to another book in this series and am going to find the first one, since I started out of order with the second. The reader was quite good, also. I listened to this on a Playaway, one of the local Libraries newest methods of media. show less
Good intro for a new-to-me mystery series! But why did they choose a British narrator for a story set in the USA?
Good. Quick, easy read.
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- Canonical title
- The Cranefly Orchid Murders
- Original publication date
- 2002
- People/Characters
- Victoria Trumbull; Chief Casey O'Neill; Phoebe Eldredge; Elizabeth Trumbull; Robin White; Harry Ness (show all 8); Zack West; Josiah Coffin
- Important places
- Dukes County, Massachusetts, USA; Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, USA; Massachusetts, USA
- Dedication
- For Dionis Coffin Riggs, Poet, 1898-1997
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- 133
- Popularity
- 245,577
- Reviews
- 3
- Rating
- (3.44)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook
- ISBNs
- 11
- ASINs
- 3
