DEATH AND THE BREWERY QUEEN

As Anne Dover performs this audiobook set in 1930 in Leeds, she makes listeners feel a deep connection to the story and its characters. William Lofthouse asks Kate Singleton for help with his struggling business, Barleycorn Brewery. Soon, Kate and her partner, Jim Sykes, become involved in an investigation into sabotage at the brewery. Then, the hit-and-run killing of the brewery secretary plunges Kate and Jim into the first of multiple murders. Dover gives each character distinction. In particular, when a character cries, listeners hear the tears in her speech. When the father of the brewery beauty queen abuses her, listeners feel her pain and want to come to her defense. V.M.G. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine [Published: NOVEMBER 2020]