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  • Artifact

  • A Jaya Jones Treasure Hunt Mystery, Book 1
  • By: Gigi Pandian
  • Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
  • Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (95 ratings)

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Artifact

By: Gigi Pandian
Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
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Summary

When historian Jaya Jones receives a mysterious package containing a jewel-encrusted artifact, she discovers the secrets of a lost Indian treasure may be hidden in a Scottish legend. But she's not the only one on the trail.

From San Francisco to the Highlands of Scotland, Jaya must evade a shadowy stalker, as she follows hints from the hastily scrawled note to a remote archaeological dig. Helping her decipher the cryptic clues are her magician best friend, a devastatingly handsome art historian with something to hide, and a charming archaeologist running for his life. When a member of the dig's crew is murdered, Jaya must figure out which of the scholars vying for her affections might be the love of her life - and which one is a killer.

©2012 Gigi Pandian (P)2015 Tantor
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"Pandian's new series may well captivate a generation of readers, combining the suspenseful, mysterious and romantic." ( RT Book Reviews)

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Mystery

This is the first book I’ve read by Gigi but not the last. The twist and turns thought the book kept me glued to the story. I will definitely continue this series.

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Good book, but

The story was good. Unfortunately, being British, the attempt at the accents of the Scottish and English characters was hilariously bad.

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Really awful accents

Hard to listen to though story ok. Accents were truly bad, especially for anyone British.

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Good read

This is a great story but performance was full of terrible attempts at British accents with mispronunciations. You have to ignore them to enjoy the actual story.

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The accents are so bad, I expected Mary Poppins to turn up.

Having enjoyed The Alchemist series, I was hopeful of finding my next literary mini-obsession. This isn’t it.

The Scottish and British accents are distractingly poor and meander about so much that it’s genuinely hard to keep track of which character is speaking.

Story was so so and lacked the narrative clarity of the previous series. I wanted to love it but it’s a tough listen.

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Another new favourite author

I have fallen in love with the novels by Gigi Pandian. The books are very well written, with believable characters. I can't wait to continue this series. Brilliantly narrated.

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Terrible accents!

I am enjoying the story, but unfortunately the English/Scottish accents are really badly done... it’s pretty distracting!

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I just can't listen anymore -

loved the previous books by this author and have battled through to about half way with this one but the narration is unbearablly bad and I think I'll have to stop listening as it is just getting worse... hopefully it might be redone with a different narrator?

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Easy listen

Storyline and language is a bit simple, but overall enjoyable listen! Good performance and nice plots and twists to the story.. even though nothing extraordinary. Would listen to the following books if stuck ☺️

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easy listening but accents are really bad

the sroy is easy to listen to, and is ok but rhe Scottish accents and language are terrible and off-putting.

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