Listen free for 30 days
Listen with offer
-
The Winter Garden Mystery
- A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
Failed to add items
Add to basket failed.
Add to wishlist failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
$0.00 for first 30 days
The Winter Garden Mystery
Buy Now for £15.99
No valid payment method on file.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Listeners also enjoyed...
Summary
Feisty flapper Dalrymple is a breath of fresh air to the occupants of gloomy Occles Hall in Cheshire, among them her former school chum, wallflower Bobbie Parslow, and the thorny mistress of the manor, Lady Valeria. While photographing the barren ground behind the house, Daisy suspects someone has been digging amidst the soil's first green shoots, and promptly unearths the corpse of Grace Moss, the missing parlor maid. So begins a harrowing romp as the dead woman's shocking secret is revealed.
Critic reviews
"Manners (P.G. Wodehouse-style) and mystery get equal time in a low-keyed story with considerable charm." ( Kirkus Reviews)
More from the same
Love Books? You'll Love Audible.
Transform your day
Replace endless scrolling with endless listening. Chores can be fun.
Listen everywhere
You can’t turn pages while you drive—but you can press play.
Carry your entire Library
Your stories go where you go. Audiobooks don’t weigh a thing.
Listen and learn
Discover stories that can change your mind, your well-being, and your life.
Reach your reading goals
Download titles to listen offline, wherever you are in the world.
Find your niche
WIth thousands of titles to explore, there’s something for everyone.
What listeners say about The Winter Garden Mystery
Average customer ratingsReviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall3 out of 5 stars
-
Performance1 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Pippa
- 22-04-16
What was that accent
Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
I would recommend that they read it NOT listen to it. Is Bernadette American? I think she must be her English accents are DREADFUL! I found her horrible accents so distracting that it spoilt the story. Honestly get someone who can do English regional accents to read this story and it would get all 5 stars from me!
What did you like best about this story?
The story is great - I really enjoyed the story. I think this author is really good and I will look for her books read by a different narrator.
Would you be willing to try another one of Bernadette Dunne’s performances?
NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO unless it's in her natural accent
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
2 people found this helpful
-
Overall3 out of 5 stars
-
Performance2 out of 5 stars
-
Story4 out of 5 stars
- Alison
- 04-08-21
The Case of the Strange Narration
The strange narration continues. If anything, Book 2 is even more bizarre than Book 1.
I got this (and the whole series) free with my Audible membership, so I would be very churlish to actually complain. But, had I BOUGHT these books, I’d be asking for credits to be refunded. It’s such a shame as the stories are good romps. Even though free, for me, I doubt I’ll be able to listen to any more as the accent is so hilariously distracting.
The Welsh gardener is kind of Scottish. The north west England servants are Australian. Vaguely.
Please don’t buy these. Download them free with your membership. Then it’s not so painful, I imagine. Or, as the narrator would say: I imaaaagine 😀
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars
-
Performance4 out of 5 stars
-
Story4 out of 5 stars
- Amazon Customer
- 08-09-21
pronunciation.
pronunciation american and slightly bizarre but better than many audiobooks. on the whole enjoyable
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall4 out of 5 stars
-
Performance1 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Lizzie
- 13-05-22
Fun story if you can ignore the narrator
These are fun, easy listening stories BUT the narrator is a shocker! Her accents are all over the place and her pronunciation of words are irritating beyond belief! Get a better narrator… please
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall3 out of 5 stars
-
Performance2 out of 5 stars
-
Story4 out of 5 stars
- Amazon Customer
- 05-12-22
pronunciations
because the narrator is not English some pronunciations are jarring and spoil the flow of the story .
There really is no excuse for some of them and these should have been spotted before this story was allowed to be heard.
I love this series so I will perservere
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall5 out of 5 stars
-
Performance5 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Anonymous User
- 02-07-23
Great story line
Yet another good book, Narrator read the story well and the upper class speaking correctly.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall3 out of 5 stars
-
Performance2 out of 5 stars
-
Story3 out of 5 stars
- MW
- 28-09-23
Unsuitable Narration
The story is okay but the narrator should have been British, or the story set on the other side of “the pond”.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
-
Overall3 out of 5 stars
-
Performance2 out of 5 stars
-
Story4 out of 5 stars
- Sonja
- 17-08-21
Oh why oh why an American narrator?
The narrator's accents are dire, almost too bad to listen to. She's obviously never even heard a Welsh accent. Imagine Dick van Dyke doing Welsh.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall3 out of 5 stars
-
Performance1 out of 5 stars
-
Story4 out of 5 stars
- Matthew Roberts
- 23-04-16
Good story, but needs a different narrator
A good murder mystery of the cosy, "Golden Age" style, but the choice of narrator was misguided. I'm not sure of her actual nationality, but she sounded American, and she had a very odd way with the English accents she was required to produce. Especially the (mostly) upper-class accents. She seems to think that in every word like "gather", "gladly", "gas", etc., the vowel sound was the long a (like the a sound in "garden"). It becomes a little distracting -- or distrahhhcting. ;)
She reads well, but I think she would be better suited to American audiobooks. Someone like Cornelius Garett (narrator of the wonderful Inspector Wilkins country-house-murder-mystery novels) would have been a better choice, or as the protagonist is female, Penelope Keith.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!
1 person found this helpful
-
Overall3 out of 5 stars
-
Performance1 out of 5 stars
-
Story5 out of 5 stars
- Morag
- 11-01-22
Terrible narration!!!!
So first off let me say I LOVE the Daisy books! Having read and thoroughly enjoyed the hard copies a few years ago, I was delighted when I found the audiobooks. With well written and amusing characters, and a gripping, exciting plot, this audiobook should have made for a fun, light-hearted, and easy-going listen....
However, why Audible cast this narrator to read this particular book I have no idea. I can only assume she may be somehow related to the author as they have very similar surnames. She reads this book with some attempt at an upper-class British accent, which is anything but successful. Her own American/ Canadian accent is highly prominent, yet combined with her mispronunciation and strangulation of vowels, the entire narration is extremely irritating, and distracts from the book itself. Her attempt at any kind of dialect (in particular the Welsh) is diabolical, and intact made me stop listening halfway through and remove the audiobook from my library.
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
You voted on this review!
You reported this review!