Murder on the Flying Scotsman
3.5 Stars

While traveling from London to Edinburgh aboard the Flying Scotsman, the Honorable Miss Daisy Dalrymple becomes embroiled in another murder investigation when the elderly heir to a fortune is found dead on the train. Which one of his avaricious relatives is responsible?

Although Daisy and Alec are very likable characters and I am enjoying their slow-burn romance, they are no Hercule Poirot and this book is most definitely not Murder on the Orient Express.

The mystery starts out well with a host of obnoxious suspects that requires a chart to keep track (Daisy does, in fact, draw one up for Alec). Unfortunately, the constant back and forth questioning of each and every character slows the pacing, and the eventual revelation of the killer is obvious once a certain plot point is revealed.

The inclusion of children in a mystery and/or romance can be tricky, but Alec's daughter, Belinda, is sweet, and Dunn manages to weave her nicely into the plot.

On a final note, the audiobook narrator has changed from Bernadette Dunne to Mia Chariamonte, and suffice it to say, I am not a fan. Her British accent is awful and she mispronounces numerous words. ( )

Enjoyable cosy crime novel ( )

Not one of my favorites of the Daisy Dalrymple series. The best part about this story was Belinda, the precocious and friendly daughter of Alec Fletcher who runs away and catches up with Daisy while they are aboard the Flying Scotsman. ( )

Daisy Dalrymple is travelling on the Flying Scotsman in 1923 when the daughter of her friend Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher, shows herself to be a stowaway. On the train are the summoned relations of the dying Alistair McGowan, all fortuitously in the first class carriage with Daisy. The daughter, Belinda later discovers a body. It is left to D.C.I. Fletcher and his team with the help of Daisy to determine the guilty party from a cast of mainly unlikeable characters. Unfortunately all the suspects were introduced fairly quickly though not too clearly, and I felt the murderer was fairly obvious.
Still an enjoyable read, my first of this series, which can easily be read as a standalone novel.
A NetGalley Book ( )

passenger-train, cosy-mystery, England, family-dynamics, friendship, greed, murder, murder-investigation, stow-away, law-enforcement, lawyers, situational-humor, verbal-humor*****

Daisy is off on the train to Scotland to do a magazine article on a stately home but runs into more than she bargained for. One of her old school chums and the whole irascible extended family is on board to try to get an old man to change his will. Then there's another friend's daughter who stowed away, a medical man of East Indian heritage, a murder, and a whole lot more.
Lots of suspects and convoluted interpersonal entanglements, laughable interchanges, and even some unexpected interference. Fun read for a time at home from weather or pandemic.
I was disappointed in the new narrator, but she is adequate. ( )