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Title: Let's Kill Uncle
Author: Rohan O'Grady
Narrator: Rama Vallury
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-05-13
Publisher: Audible Studios for Bloomsbury
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 7 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
When recently orphaned Barnaby Gaunt is sent to stay with his uncle on a beautiful remote island off the coast of Canada, he is all set to have the perfect summer holiday. Except there is one small problem: His uncle is trying to kill him.
Heir to a ten-million-dollar fortune, Barnaby tries to tell everyone and anyone that his uncle is after his inheritance, but no one will believe him. That is, until he tells the only other child on the island, Chrissie, who concludes that there is only one way for Barnaby to stop his demonic uncle: He will just have to kill him first. With the unexpected help of One-Ear, the aged cougar who has tormented the island for years, Chrissie and Barnaby hatch a foolproof plan.
Playful, dark, and witty, Let's Kill Uncle is a surprising tale of two ordinary children who conspire to execute an extraordinary murder - and get away with it.
Members Reviews:
Memory Lane
This was my favorite book as a 5th grader. it was a gift to me from my grandmother. I remember reading it with a friend and the end being so suspenseful! The story has stayed with me and I have looked for it in bookstores. Finding it as a kindle book I bought it right away. It is still a very enjoyable story! it definitely has the elements of a children's book with the two youthful main characters and an animal that reasons like a human but the book still maintained my interest at age 60. I'm glad I found it again- Grandma picked well!
The interesting location and supporting characters (including a love-sick Canadian Mountie and an elderly cougar) made this a fu
The plot centers around an evil uncle plotting to kill the rich nephew for his fortune. The interesting location and supporting characters (including a love-sick Canadian Mountie and an elderly cougar) made this a fun read right to the end. There's the suspense of who-kills-who but also the transformation of two spoiled but needy children put on a small island for the summer.
Did not disappoint the second time around
I read this book when it first came out and I was a teen. Thought about it recently and thought it would be fun to revisit the island and the quirky characters. Enjoyed it again!
For Love of Sergeant Coulter and a Cougar: A Gothic Story of Two Unsung Heroes
Published in the 1960s, not only is this the most enchanting Gothic story I have ever read, it is certainly the most original. There are singular and wicked laughs to be found on nearly every page while the plot darkens and takes a progressively sinister turn.
Two children who have never met, a boy and a girl of ten, Barnaby and Christie, are sent together for different reasons to a remote island in Canada, inhabited only by elderly residents for the summer. The portrayal of Uncle Sylvester, the monstrous villain in the title story, harboring macabre and hideous secrets, is brilliant. In the meantime, he is planning to make short shift of Barnaby, his rich orphaned nephew and ward, and the frightened boy has every good reason to believe that his days are numbered.
When the two unhappy youngsters quarreling fiercely on the ship arrive for their stay, Sergeant Alfred Coulter, the disgraced Canadian Mountie and the youngest adult on the island, finds his hands full and receives a rude awakening.
