Miss Aldridge Regrets - Louise Hare

Written by Louise Hare
Read by Georgina Campbell
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

A Canary Club Mystery
Publisher: Books on Tape
Release date: July 5, 2022
Duration: 12:13:29

The glittering RMS Queen Mary. A nightclub singer on the run. An aristocratic family with secrets worth killing for.

London, 1936. Lena Aldridge wonders if life has passed her by. The dazzling theatre career she hoped for hasn’t worked out. Instead, she’s stuck singing in a sticky-floored basement club in Soho, and her married lover has just left her. But Lena has always had a complicated life, one shrouded in mystery as a mixed-race girl passing for white in a city unforgiving of her true racial heritage.

She’s feeling utterly hopeless until a stranger offers her the chance of a lifetime: a starring role on Broadway and a first-class ticket on the Queen Mary bound for New York. After a murder at the club, the timing couldn’t be better, and Lena jumps at the chance to escape England. But death follows her onboard when an obscenely wealthy family draws her into their fold just as one among them is killed in a chillingly familiar way. As Lena navigates the Abernathy’s increasingly bizarre family dynamic, she realizes that her greatest performance won’t be for an audience, but for her life.

With seductive glamor, simmering family drama, and dizzying twists, Louise Hare makes her beguiling US debut.

“British actor Georgina Campbell is the perfect performer to narrate the story of a mixed-race London nightclub singer who gets what appears to be the chance of a lifetime to star on Broadway. Lena Aldridge is anxious to leave town for a number of reasons, including her involvement in the poisoning of the nightclub’s owner. The clear, incisive voice of Campbell follows Lena as she crosses the Atlantic in 1936 aboard the opulent QUEEN MARY. She becomes involved with some dysfunctional fellow passengers, especially the wealthy, unlikable Abernathy family, whose American accents are unique. Murder and chaos follow Lena aboard the ship. Listeners seeking a glitzy historical mystery will enjoy this skillfully presented performance.”— AudioFile