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    Murder on Lexington Avenue
    Murder on Lexington Avenue
    Murder on Lexington Avenue
    Audiobook9 hours

    Murder on Lexington Avenue

    Written by Victoria Thompson

    Narrated by Suzanne Toren

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    In this 12th Gaslight Mystery by national bestselling author Victoria Thompson, philosophical conflicts within the deaf community lead to murder most foul. After an influential supporter of deaf education is found dead, NYPD Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy quickly determines the slain man-an advocate of eugenics-was bludgeoned with a trophy. But when Malloy reaches an impasse, he asks his friend Sarah Brandt to help him ferret out the culprit.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateDec 17, 2010
    ISBN9781449847104
    Murder on Lexington Avenue
    Author

    Victoria Thompson

    Victoria Thompson is the author of twenty bestselling historical romances. She is also the Edgar nominated author of the bestselling Gaslight Mystery Series, set in turn-of-the-century New York City and featuring midwife Sarah Brandt. She also contributed to the award winning writing textbook Many Genres/One Craft. A popular speaker, Victoria teaches in the Seton Hill University master's program in writing popular fiction. She lives in Central PA with her husband and a very spoiled little dog.Please visit Victoria Thompson’s www.victoriathompson.homestead.com to learn about new releases and discover old favorites!

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    • 4/5
      I love this series! This time the focus is on the wealthy family of a deaf teenage girl. The father is murdered and that starts Malloy's investigation. While at the house informing the widow of the murder, she goes into labor and this lets Malloy send for Sarah Brandt. Exciting ending with a twist.
    • 4/5
      In this installment Sarah and Frank need to solve the murder of a man. His daughter is deaf and is happy that her father is dead since he did not allow her to learn sign language. She is in love with one of the teachers at the school for the deaf that Frank's son Brian attends. The wife of the murdered man gives birth to her lover's child in the beginning and all those pieces intertwine to make this a very good read.
    • 3/5
      I didn't enjoy this book much. I hoped it would get better as I read, but that didn't seem to happen. I found that there was not much character development throughout the book, and we hardly saw any interaction at all between Frank Malloy and Sarah Brandt. The murderer was obvious too, but the plot written that got us to the perpetrator was stilted and with little life. Usually I enjoy this historical series, but this was a disappointment to me. We need more meat in these books Ms. Thompson to keep us coming back. There has to be a story along with the murder and character development to make us care. Didn't happen this time.
    • 3/5
      Victoria Thompson again brings to the table interesting historic information. This volume of the Gaslight series set in late 1800's of New York focuses on deaf individuals and the different schools catering to the deaf. The more popular school of that time believed in teaching the deaf person to read lips and to vocally speak. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor, firmly believed this to be the only route to follow. Bell also believed that deaf people should not marry another deaf person, and even believed that the deaf should not marry or should not have children. The other school followed a different avenue and taught the deaf individual a sign language. The sign language teaching met many obstacles, and was almost abandoned or derailed. The discovery of the murderer was not as cleverly done in this story as in prior stories, plus a few issues happened that were not resolved. Still, this is an interesting journey into New York society.
    • 3/5
      It took me a few Anne Perry and Victoria Thompson novels to discover that the term 'mystery' has changed from how it was used let's say 10 to 20 years ago. Most readers might still associated a mystery novel with a puzzle and with sleuthing, but those terms rarely apply anymore to modern mysteries. Anne Perry is one of many contemporary authors who writes historical fiction with a romantic inclination, which is probably a better label than mystery. Granted, the reader does not know until the very end who has committed the heinous crime, but then again the reveal is most of the time arrived at by the culprit confessing without provocation and regularly without convincing motivation. You could say: with enough time and social pressure the murderer will eventually show him or herself without the need for evidence. Rarely in these novels is there actual hard evidence linking the crime to the crimee.Traditionally in the context of a murder mystery there are a number of suspects each with the appropriate motivation as to why they wanted to snuff the life out of the poor victim. At the end of the story a sleuth or consulting detective explains why only one of the suspects could have actually committed the crime and why the rest of the bunch are not eligible for the title of murderer, no matter how much they desired that tribute.In an Anne Perry novel the mechanism is reversed, we now have a number of suspects each of which was potentially at the proper place (one will never know) with the right intentions and correct means, but physical evidence and eyewitness reports don't matter that much. The one who has the best motive wins, it's that simple. Instead of the traditional plotting of the author, sleuthing by the detective and puzzling by the readers, we now have novels where the mystery content revolves around veiled dramatic character interactions. Most of these interactions will mostly appeal only to female audiences and ironically portray a rather traditional domestic picture and gender role division.From a historical perspective there is much to be found and experienced. Authors like Anne Perry, Victoria Thompson and Caleb Carr to name just a few, are heavily invested in accurate depictions and appropriately original detail. Reading an Anne Perry is just as much an immersive trip into Victorian Times as it is an ongoing daytime television saga. Readers aren't really invested in an Anne Perry for the story, but for the endless almost but not quite amorous interactions between Charlotte and Thomas. For a Victoria Thompson novel you can swap out Frank and Sarah, everything else stays the same.If you like a trip into a complete and convincing Victorian world with lots of interesting drama and elaborate character interactions through dialog, then you're in for a treat. If you're looking for an Agatha Christie mystery then I suggest you read an Agatha Christie.
    • 3/5
      Good little whodunnit. Will probably read more from this series.