Untrue Crime Is My Genre
As I’ve mentioned more than once before (this sounds like I’m about to do a light scolding, but you’re good, you’re great, never change), I can’t stop listening to cozy British murder mystery audiobooks.
The most recent one I finished was called Crime in Cornwall by Emma Dakin. It’s narrated by Bianca Amato, who, as is noted in the final credits, is SAG-AFTRA. I love that this is mentioned. Bianca works, ok!?! And rightly so because she does a great job with this recording—the tens of dialects alone. Get it, girl!
It’s the second in the British Book Tour Mystery series, which is about a mid-40s tour guide named Claire Barclay who takes small groups around areas in the UK cited in British novels, murder mysteries very much included. And then, of course, she always runs into a dead body as well.
(Is this genre getting so meta, it’s Zuckerberg-trademarked? Misfortunately, yes.)
Claire always mentions to her tourists that a murder has happened and sometimes they act like it’s a little bonus she threw in for them to make their experience extra special. This paints a decidedly weird picture of American Boomers, who have, thus far, constituted the majority of her groups. Considering I’m a tourist of these books, I’m complicit as well.
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