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Don't miss the brand-new utterly charming cozy crime series from Greg Mosse - available to pre-order now!
Synopsis:
Zoe Pascal has decided to live her dream: leave England and open up a bookshop in a small village in the south of France. She wants to spend her later years in life eating croissants, reading her beloved books, and getting to know her charming new hometown.
When the body of a tourist is found inside the local church, Zoe begins to discover that something is afoot in the village of Sainte-Catherine. And as the last person to have seen the deceased alive, Zoe suddenly becomes a prime suspect in a murder investigation.
Can she prove her innocence and discover who the real murderer is, or will Zoe have to say au revoir to her French countryside dream?
Review:
I love the Maisie Cooper series, so I was interested in how Greg would take an older main character and uproot her to France and plop her into a murder! Zoe decides to follow her heart and uproot herself to France, thanks to the help of a group that helps you find a home and get what you need in advance. but what she doesn't have is fluent French or anyone she knows in her new village. But as she takes on her new home and hopes to make it into a village meeting spot and bookstore, she meets her neighbors and starts to enjoy local customs, only her outsider nicety lands her into finding a body in the church with the local priest. Soon she realizes there is a big secret in town and everyone thinks she is there to solve it and take their prize, and suddenly she's a possible suspect of the dead tourist. Doing some digging on her own, soon finds her in the right spot and time to find some clues to why the death happened, and to clear her name. As she settles into her new business, she soon finds much more than she expected. A fun cozy, with a touch of wanderlust and dreams, it's a quick read that will have you wanting to read the next book (The Chateau Murder ,which is on presale low pricing now,and comes out in January!). Don't skip this new series, if you like your main characters with some spunk and experience!
About the Author:
GREG MOSSE is a 'writer and encourager of writers' and husband of internationally bestselling author, Kate Mosse. He has lived and worked in Paris, New York, Los Angeles and Madrid, mostly as an interpreter and translator, but grew up in rural south-west Sussex. In 2014, he founded the Criterion New Writing playwriting programme in the heart of the West End and, since then, has produced more than 25 of his own plays and musicals. His creative writing workshops are highly sought after at festivals at home and abroad. His first novel, The Coming Darkness, was published by Moonflower in 2022, followed in 2024 by The Coming Storm. Murder at the Wedding is the sixth book in his successful cozy crime series featuring the charming and perceptive amateur sleuth, Maisie Cooper.
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