Excellent in all ways!

This is such a wonderful, quaint, well-written mystery! Brimming with local color and gravitas. Agatha Christie meets Lake Wobegon with considerable emotional intelligence.

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The Wealthy Meet the Tree Huggers 😜

This is a fun, quirky listen, with a 92-year-old amateur sleuth (Victoria Turmbull) teamed up with an 11-year-old assistant. The two make quite the pair of investigators. Everyone wants to get their hands on Phoebe Eldridge's property at Martha's Vineyard, and none have a philanthropic motive. The rich want to add more millionaire mansions. The environmentalists would have people think that they are out to protect endangered species . . . but are they really? And the crotchety old Phoebe Eldridge, whose son ran off years ago, after beating his wife and leaving her and his daughter to fend for themselves, is totally disconnected from family. So when her granddaughter shows up at her doorstep, professing allegiance to the family . . . and the property, the old Phoebe isn't buying it . . . nor the young woman's dyed hair and wild ways. When a developer offers Phoebe a large sum of money for her 200 acres, along with the provision that she can live on the land the rest of her life, she accepts . . . never having an attorney check out the contract. It isn't long until she learns that she's being forced off her land. Soon the local Conservation Trust enlists Victoria Trumbull to see if she can find an endangered plant species on Phoebe's property to halt the invasion of builders. Soon Victoria and her young sidekick discover a patch of the Cranefly Orchids . . . and a dead body. The discovery of both sets off a number of events that lead to a trail of deceit involving those in the community. Great story with many twists and turns.

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not a fan

slow paced and pedantic. not a bad story but just too spread out and with somewhat undefined characters

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Fun but not my favourite.

I enjoyed this book because of its island references and the familiar characters. I also liked some of the new characters—Ms Riggs characters are always well-rounded. The story was lacking and tended to plod along. I still enjoyed the book but I would say it was the weakest in the Victoria Trumbull series. So far, my favourite is Indian Pipes.

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Is there going to be a murder?

I was 3 hours in and couldn’t be less interested. No murder yet I’m 3 hrs in but there is an abundance of words describing everything except anything I’m interested in. Yawn…I gave up.

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A grand murder adventure on Martha's Vineyard .

Oh the ins and outs and ups and downs of the old timers on Martha's Vineyard. The problems caused by the greedy land grubbers who want to make millions of dollars off the beautiful land destroying what Martha's Vineyard was about you'd never guess who committed the murders and it's really a great book I thoroughly suggest that you give it a read

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My favorite in the series so far

The narrator is fantastic ! She makes the book come alive for me. The ending of the story was so well done, and I loved the inclusion of Robin. I hope he will appear again in future stories.

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Good book, but you say she's 92?

I enjoyed this book very much. I must be getting old because I was having trouble keeping track of the groups trying to acquire the property. I enjoyed Victoria's humor. Sweet old lady that she is. I really want to see the underground house. The whole book was very good and Davina Porter did a really great job of narrating.

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The cranefly orchid murders

I just love cozy mysteries like this one! the story had so many twists and turns that it kept me on my toes, trying to guess who the murderer was.

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Minerva is a strong character name.

The narrator does an excellent job 👏 with this mystery. Although I've never been to Martha's Vineyard, the characters into this series make me want to visit!