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Murder in the Abbey (The Maggie Newberry Mystery Series Book 8) Kindle Edition

by Susan Kiernan-Lewis (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Situated in the rolling hills of England’s pastoral Cotswolds, the Abbey is a charming Bed & Breakfast allowing its guests to taste the pleasures of rank and prestige from a bygone era—until murder slams face first onto its welcome mat. When the victim turns out to be someone close to both Maggie and Laurent, they leave their vineyard in France to say goodbye—and to find out why. Once in England, they discover that the tranquil countryside of Shelley and Wadsworth can be every bit as treacherous as the most sinister souk in the backstreets of Marseilles. What Maggie also discovers is that if she ever hopes to be able to live with herself—or face Laurent with her own guilt—she’ll need to find the killer… … preferably before she ends up face down in one of the Abbey’s bucolic fishing ponds.
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    The Maggie Newberry Mystery Series
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Praise for the Maggie Newberry Mysteries:

"...the vineyards, the luscious food, the atmosphere...I swear if I could live their life in France, I'd be packing today!"

"Addicting! The author knows the region and lets you experience Paris and the south of France."

"Bodies keep appearing and I keep flipping the pages to findout who did it!"

"You'll want to pull out your cookbooks or travel guides with a French bottle of wine, some cheese and read the next escapade of Maggie solving the next murder"

"This series just gets better and better. The atmosphere, the characters and the plot...great pace...well done!"

"Couldn't put it down!"

"...Great culinary delights mix with mystery and romance!"

"I would recommend these to any cozy mystery lover out there."

"Love this series! Great characters, great mysteries, greatsetting."

"The French food! The clues! The conniving villagers! Did Imention the French food?"

"Once you start reading, it's a mind battle to hurry and getto the end! The who-done-it mystery is fascinating."

"The complexities of the characters and their relationships,the subplots and the main plot development!"

"Love, Food and Mystery! Oh my!"

"Recommend you do not read hungry! The descriptions ofLaurent's cooking as Maggie sleuthes will send you running to the pantry."

From the Author

Love France? How about a good mystery? Wonder what it would be like to live in a quaint French village while married to a French chef and solving murder mysteries along the way? Each book in the Maggie Newberry Mysteries can be read as a standalone, but they're more fun in order:
Murder in the South of France (Book 1)
Murder a la Carte (Book 2)
Murder in Provence (Book 3)
Murder in Paris (Book 4)
Murder in Aix (Book 5)
Murder in Nice (Book 6)
Murder in the Latin Quarter (Book 7)
Murder in the Abbey (Book 8)
Murder in the Bistro (Book 9)
Murder in Cannes (Book 10) Murder in Grenoble (Book 11)Murder in the Vineyard (Book 12)Murder in Arles (Book 13)Murder in Marseille (Book 14)Murder in Saint-Rémy (Book 15)

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01AIGW9Y0
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ San Marco Press (March 25, 2016)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 25, 2016
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 809 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 356 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
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Susan Kiernan-Lewis is a USA TODAY Bestselling Author and the writer of the bestselling Maggie Newberry Mysteries. She has also written the popular post-apocalyptic thriller series, The Irish End Games, The Mia Kazmaroff Mysteries, The Stranded in Provence Mysteries, and the Claire Baskerville Mysteries. Sign up to be notified of new releases, sneak previews, giveaways & other book news! Go to: www.susankiernanlewis.com.

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Dotkitty
5.0 out of 5 stars An entertaining read!
Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2024
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This is my first Maggie Newberry book, and I enjoyed the characters and the story. Bits of it were unrealistic but that’s okay and really, it’s to be expected in fiction. Overall, “Murder in the Abbey” is truly an entertaining read. I look forward to getting to know Maggie, Laurent, and other characters in the other books in the series.
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IndyStory
4.0 out of 5 stars Murder in the Abbey
Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2024
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This was an interesting book. I would read more I. The series. The mystery of it kept my interest u til the e d.
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t53woody
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent murder mystery
Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2024
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Lots of suspense, great characters with lots of twists and turns. Multiple layers of storylines all set in an English Abbey.
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jtass
3.0 out of 5 stars Maggie goes hunting
Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2021
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This is the 8th in this series featuring ex-pat Maggie Newberry, and her husband Laurent, former con-man turned vintner. There is a pronounced overall story arc to this series, so much of one that little of this novel will make sense unless most, if not all of the earlier novels had been read.

Laurent has been in touch with his former partner in crime, Roger, despite Maggie's dislike and distrust of the man. Roger had after all, come into her life when he had conned Maggie's family out of thousands of dollars. That this con had resulted in Maggie meeting Laurent, and had brought her niece Nicole into her family only softened her opinion slightly. Maggie had a lingering fear that one day Roger would lure Laurent back into their former lives as confidence men. That problem was now put to rest when word came that Roger would not be visiting at their home in Provence after all. He had suddenly died, and so instead Maggie and Laurent would be traveling to Roger's home in the Cotswolds for his memorial service.

Once there it quickly became apparent that all was not quite as it seemed on the surface. Roger's death was highly suspicious, his widow was far from bereft, his step son seemed indifferent, possibly even pleased about it. In fact it was quite possible that Laurent was the only one who was truly mourning Roger's passing. Maggie was feeling guilty about her own less than charitable feelings towards Roger and, being Maggie, felt the local police were not taking the matter seriously enough. When Roger's sister invited them to stay at the Abbey, a country house hotel that Roger had partially owned Laurent and Maggie agreed, Maggie's motives been a desire to snoop and to have an opportunity to go horseback riding. Once at the Abbey the story quickly becomes a country house murder story complete with long buried secrets, hidden passages, upstairs/downstairs intrigues and even a fox hunt.

This series is full of potential, the life of a young couple from vastly different backgrounds living in a beautiful area of France and an expanding cast of interesting secondary characters to fuel a myriad of stories. Unfortunately the author (more on that later) has chosen to go for quantity rather than quality. These books have been appearing at the rate of two a year....and this is not the author's only series. It also seems that the author either doesn't have an editor or needs a new one.

There are numerous errors in continuity that began with the very first book. The physical description of the characters varies - Maggie's eyes have been described as blue, green and were brown at one point. Laurent grows and shrinks at random. Previous plot points are established and then ignored - in this book we are told that Maggie and Laurent had never left their children before but Maggie left their son for nearly a week when he was an infant, later she took her infant daughter Mila with her to Paris for several days and she and the children supposedly left Laurent at home on his own when they spent a month or so in Atlanta.

There are also some very glaring factual errors in this book, mostly dealing with the equestrian scenes. The horse Maggie rides is described as an Irish Draught horse, which is supposedly over 22 hands tall. A hand is equal to 4 inches so this horse would be 88 inches (7 feet 4 inches) at the shoulder which is where horses are measured. The largest horse alive today, according to the Guinness Book of Records is 20 hands tall. Irish Draught horses are, according to breed standards, ideally between 15.2 and 16.3 hands (62 to 67 inches). Maggie had supposedly ridden and shown hunter/jumpers extensively as a child and teenager. In America Thoroughbreds and similar breeds are the typical horses used and are similar in size. Rather than being intimidated by the mount she was offered Maggie should have felt right at home. Also the author claims that mares (female horses) are trickier and harder to handle than males. I have ridden and handled horses of all sorts for over fifty years and have never heard that, mares and geldings (neutered males) are preferred riding horses, it is stallions that often require caution. How difficult is it to get such simple facts right?

The speed with which these books appear, and the errors in continuity as well as the factual errors lead me to believe that this author is, like the 'Nancy Drew' novels that were "written" by Carolyn Keene, really written by ghostwriters who worked from a supplied outline. Like the Nancy Drew stories these books are addictive and leave the reader wondering what will happen next and willing to over looks some annoying inconsistencies.
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4.0 out of 5 stars no passports required...
Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2024
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take an enchanting trip to England, stay at a converted and ancient abbey that now stays afloat as an AirB&B where its former owner has just been murdered and you have the ingredients of an old-fashioned murder mystery that a certain American horse woman from the Deep South and her droolable French husband cannot seem to leave alone. it took a few chapters for me to coalesce all the players, most of whom were paying guests in for the upcoming Abbey Hunt, but once I got the relationships straight (absolutely vital to any armchair sleuth), the story was captivating. there are quite a few French phrases that Wikipedia hasn't learned yet, but it became apparent that they were pretty basic phrases that could probably be translated contextually so I just guessed and lost nothing in my presumptions and the tale wound quickly to its reveal, and I have to admit, this time, I didn't see it coming. so I read another murder mystery and it outdid me, which means s.k.-l. did a bangup job of crafting it, and isn't that what we read this genre for in the first place? it is for me.
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Allyson M. W. Dyar
5.0 out of 5 stars Maggie's in England
Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2018
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I generally don't like starting a new series this far in, but the price was right (free) and the plot sounded interesting.

I was not disappointed what so ever. Maggie is a spunky American married to a French wine grower, living in France with their two young children.

In this book, the couple go to the funeral of her husband's good friend (a friend Maggie could do without) in England.

This was a solid cozy with really interesting characters and was well-paced. I didn't enjoy the initial scenes in France as much as I enjoyed those in England. But I can easily chalk that up to the fact that I was starting with the eighth book of the series.

I really enjoyed this book and would love to read more in the series as long as the price is right.

Well worth the read if you enjoy English cozy mysteries as I do. I give it four and half stars -- and look forward to more books in the series.
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Colleen
5.0 out of 5 stars Enthralling Mystery
Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2020
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Susan Kiernan-Lewis really kept me guessing in this wonderful Maggie Newberry book. This time Maggie and her husband, Laurent, go to England for the funeral of Laurent's long time friend, Roger, at a beautiful Bed and Breakfast, The Abby. They quickly find out that Roger was murdered. The author did a terrific job at keeping this reader involved with not only the mystery of who did it but also the whole story line in the English countryside. There is even a bit of drama going on back in France that Maggie is involved in to keep track of while solving the mystery. I thoroughly enjoy this series. The characters are fun and the stories clean with loads of twists and turns. Each story is complete, no cliff hangers for the next book which I appreciate. I will read more of this series.
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LaurieK
4.0 out of 5 stars Hard to start with the 8th book in the series
Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2017
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I got this as a free book from Amazon Kindle as I have discovered that this is a good way to find new authors. It was difficult to start so far into a series. You can tell that there is a whole history with the main characters of which you are ignorant.
I still enjoyed this book for the most part. It had an intriguing story line as well as an interesting cast of characters. It was a story unto itself but frequently refers to relationships and events of which the reader of this book alone is in the dark. I liked the clean language and lack of lurid sexual scenes, and enjoyed the playful interaction between the married protagonists. I would try more by this author.
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Janice J. Richardson
5.0 out of 5 stars Difficult to put down with plot twists and turns
Reviewed in Canada on December 18, 2023
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Having not read the previous books in this series, with no knowledge of the protagonists, I found this to be an interesting, hard-to-put-down read. Unlike many mysteries, this one was long and as I started into it, I wondered why and how the author could hold my interest. But the twists and turns drew me in, I managed to read through this 364-page thriller/mystery in two days. It takes a gifted author to write a long, detailed mystery and hold the reader's attention. Susan Kiernan-Lewis delivers an entertaining read with her cast of characters caught up in a complex and exciting mystery.
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Nikkib
5.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable mystery read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 22, 2020
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Book 8 in this murder mystery series, this time set in England, not France.

Maggie and Laurent get some bad news which means they have to travel to England. Of course, Maggie can't leave well alone and soon she's investigating the murder of one of their friends.

Set in an Abbey, which has been set up as a character driven hotel from a time looking ago when houses had upstairs and downstairs staff, a friend of theirs loses their life. Is it an accident or a deliberate action by someone else?

By asking questions, Maggie gets herself into trouble again, however, this isn't her only problem. There seems to be some history between Laurent and some of the ladies there, from his time as a con man before he met Maggie. Can their relationship survive this? Is someone out to make trouble for Maggie and Laurent?

Back home, there's also an issue with a couple of newcomers to the village.

Life is never dull around Maggie!

I'm enjoying this series and am looking forward to book 9!
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Amazon CustomerAparna Rajesh
5.0 out of 5 stars Entertainment galore.
Reviewed in India on April 14, 2018
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Good storytelling. Enjoyed the content.
Keeps you ever curious to know what happens next.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Good read
Reviewed in Australia on April 5, 2020
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Very entertalning. The vital clues were kept to the end. The personalities were well drawn and Maggie was at her best.
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Claudine Delacour-Jarrett
4.0 out of 5 stars Readable even with the fox hunting
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 20, 2024
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Would normally swerve, but a good book
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