Village mystery narrator: Gabriella

Village mystery narrator, warm, gentle, and charming

Prompt: A warm, cozy female voice for village cozy mysteries. Her bright mid-register is gentle and clever, treating small-town secrets as comfort, immersive and charming. There's a everyone-knows-everyone-and-that's-the-clue warmth in her tone. The sound of a narrator who makes a bake-sale murder feel like the coziest crime imaginable.

Script: The Women's Institute annual jam competition had been, for 40 uninterrupted years, the most exciting event in Thistlewick. This year, it also became the most fatal. Mrs. Prendergast, three-time champion, was discovered face-down in her prize-winning gooseberry preserve, and while the doctor said...