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Originally Posted by CRussel
I just started reading The Right Sort of Man by Allison Montclair, the first of the Sparks and Bainbridge series. Not one I'd heard of, but a review from a favourite author, Dana Stabenow, on Goodreads made me think I might enjoy it. Turns out I very much do enjoy it! About 2/3rds of the way through, but I had to stop and put the next couple on hold at my library.
The premise is that two women start up a marriage bureau business right after the end of WWII in London. But murder happens, and they end up having to solve it to protect their own business.
The period details read accurate (from an outsider's view, obviously)and the writing is funny, witty and really quite good.
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OK, I have to differ here. Strongly. I abandoned it after two chapters because there were so many errors. A Detective Superintendent interviewing witnesses during the preliminary investigation! Referring to blood types (American) rather than blood groups (British). Using the phrase “reached out to me” as in getting in touch. In 1946! And my absolute peeviest of pet peeves, the author gets the titles wrong. Seriously, it’s not hard to get them right - and it shows the abysmal quality of her what might laughably be called “research”. There were other idiocies. I thought this was terrible.
As for the audiobook, the narrator was adequate. The women’s voices were a little stagey but fine; the men’s voices were dire at times. I suspect the narration added to my unhappiness, but it also meant I probably didn’t pick up on as many errors as I would have if I’d read it.
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