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A Baffling Murder at the Midsummer Ball (A Dizzy Heights Mystery Book 2) by [T E Kinsey]

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A locked room. A mysterious death. Just another gig for the Dizzy Heights.

When London’s finest jazz musicians, the Dizzy Heights, are booked to play the glitzy Midsummer Ball at a country house in Oxfordshire, they expect a weekend filled with flappers and toffs having a roaring good time.

But the festivities at Bilverton House take a turn for the worse when the group are stranded by a summer storm. And when a member of the Bilverton family turns up dead in a locked room in an apparent suicide, Skins, Dunn and Ellie realise this is going to be a much tougher gig than they thought.

But here’s the lick. What if it was in fact cold-blooded murder? And what if the killer is still at large? It’s up to the Dizzy Heights to once again put down their instruments and get improvising if they want to solve this confounding mystery.

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Thomas & Mercer
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27 July 2021
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T E Kinsey grew up in London and read history at Bristol University. He worked for a number of years as a magazine features writer before falling into the glamorous world of the Internet, where he edited content for a very famous entertainment website for quite a few years more. After helping to raise three children, learning to scuba dive and to play the drums and mandolin (though never, disappointingly, all at the same time), he decided the time was right to get back to writing. A Baffling Murder at the Midsummer Ball is the second story in the Dizzy Heights series. His website is at www.tekinsey.uk and you can follow him on Twitter @tekinsey as well as on Facebook: www.facebook.com/tekinsey.

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"Listeners should hold on tight as narrator Simon Mattacks escorts them on a fast-paced journey with the Dizzy Heights jazz band as they play a gig at the elegant Bilverton House, where an upscale crowd partakes in the latest 1920s jiving. Mattacks accelerates the drama as a wild storm traps the band at the British estate, where the host is found dead.... Seamlessly and without hesitation, Mattacks clearly differentiates character voices.... This listen is a rollicking ride as Mattacks reveals how the band hits a high note while conducting a proper murder investigation." --AudioFile Magazine

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08SW8K5BT
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Thomas & Mercer (27 July 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2774 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 316 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1542021111

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T E Kinsey grew up in London and read history at the University of Bristol. He worked for a number of years as a magazine features writer before falling into the glamorous world of the Internet, where he edited content for a very famous entertainment website for quite a few years more. And now he writes historical murder mysteries. In his spare time he plays the drums (quite badly, by all accounts). ‘The Fatal Flying Affair’ is the seventh novel in a series of mysteries starring Lady Hardcastle (there's also a short story, ‘Christmas at The Grange’). His website is at tekinsey.uk and you can follow him on Twitter—@tekinsey—as well as on Facebook: www.facebook.com/tekinsey and Instagram – @tekinseymysteries

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Reviewed in Australia on 20 August 2021

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"A Baffling Murder At The Midsummer Ball" by T.E. Kinsey is a great read. I think I enjoyed it even more than his first Dizzy Heights book. We find ourselves back with his amusing characters in a great "who done it" story. It's a bit like Agatha Christie but with more humour.

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Lcey

Enjoyable read

Reviewed in Australia on 1 February 2022

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Liked reading more about the 'Dizzies' and the early 1900's and solving a mystery. Can be read as a standalone book.

Reviewed in Australia on 26 August 2021

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A real whodunnit with great scene setting and a sense of a bygone era.

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Christina M

Brilliant second book in the Dizzy Heights series

Reviewed in Australia on 28 July 2021

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TE Kinsey's books are always very well researched and written and this one is a complete joy to read. There are many twists and turns and the whodunit isn't obvious until the reveal. Highly recommended.

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Kim NotAKardashian

Enjoyable

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 September 2021

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An enjoyable classic story of being trapped in a stately home with a murderer, which is always fun. I like the backdrop of a jazz band and the speech is full of expressions of that time period.

Only thing is out of a large jazz ensemble, 3 main characters shone and the others were consigned to the background, to the point where their names where mentioned and I wondered who they even were. Not major but they were almost confusing tagalongs in the story.

Overall pretty fun though.

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Fahim S

Fun and entertaining, but with a rather abrupt ending

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 August 2021

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I really enjoyed this book. It wasn't heavy and had me giggling at times, but I thought the ending could have done with a little more time and depth. Skins and Dunn make fantastic lead characters and have constant banter. Ellie proves that is still the brains and a great balance to the two men, engaging in enough banter to not seem cold but also taking things a little more seriously. The story had me guessing throughout, and the "how" was suitably convoluted whilst remaining completely feasible. I look forward to the third book!

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janz

Entertaining but...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 July 2021

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It's not bad and entertained me well enough but it's not a patch on the originsl Lady Hardcastle books. The characters are a bit wishy-washy and I guessed the perpetrator half way through. I like the concept and indeed pre-ordered the book but I miss Lady H and Flo. Please bring them back as soon as possible, preferably with more of their backstory, which would probably make a whole novel in itself.

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Marion Hall

A great mystery!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 July 2021

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The setting of the story is very well described. I felt as though I was in the property. The characters of Ellie Skins and Barty are well written, as are the rest of the band and family. I hope that there's another book soon.

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 February 2022

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Yet again a really, thoroughly enjoyable book by this author. I like these spin off books as much as the series they've spun off from. The humour and the characters are always first rate and I love working out whodunnit and don't even mind if I work it out early on because there is still the matter of how and why to sort out. I honestly can't recommend this book and all his others highly enough.

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