I grabbed this book from Amazon Prime first Reading Program, and finally got around to reading it!
Bonus- it's the start of a new series!
The Deacon of an English Midlands village turns to sleuthing, when a killer leaves a victim behind her husband’s pharmacy in this cozy mystery.
Synopsis:
As a Deacon at St. Lawrence parish Katerina Rowe enjoys a quiet life in the village of Eyam. But everything changes when she discovers the body of a man and a badly beaten woman in the alleyway behind her husband’s pharmacy. Kat is immediately drawn to Beth, the young woman she saved. But in order to keep her safe, Kat finds herself embroiled in a baffling mystery.
When Beth’s house is set on fire, Kat offers the young woman sanctuary in her home. Soon the pair begin investigating the murder, with some help from Beth’s feisty grandmother, Doris. Neither the police, nor Kat’s husband, want Kat and Beth looking into their affairs. But as they keep digging, the pair of sleuths discover what kind of nightmares reside in their sleepy village . . .
Review:
Part cozy mystery, part detective procedural, and part pure British tight mystery, this book is a WHOLE lotta fun! Well, mixed in with a lot of deaths...LOL. The book draws you in from the very beginning pages, and by the end of the first chapter, you're already hooked. Then you get to know more about Kat, her husband Leon and Beth, and you just can't put the book down! I read it in 2 sittings, only because I had to (sleep, sometimes required, LOL)! It's a book you'll be developing into a movie in your head, and casting all the main characters. In fact, it would be a charming series (hey PBS Mystery, here's your next fun modern series!). I cant wait to read the rest of the 4 books in this series, and then the spinoff trilogy! Add this one to your Summer must have for Fall reading!
Series:
2. Murder Unexpected (2019)
3. Murder Unearthed (2019)
4. Murder Untimely (2019)
5. Murder Unjoyful (2020)
and Blood Red- the new Connections series (2021)
About the Author:
Anita Waller was born in Sheffield, South Yorkshire in 1946. She married Dave in 1967 and they have three adult children.
With many books to her name, she feels she has finally realized her dream. She writes mainly psychological thrillers, but was commissioned in 2018 to write a cozy mystery series, the Kat and Mouse trilogy. By November 2020 this will have grown to five books, plus a spin-off standalone novel called Epitaph, featuring Doris, one of the characters from the series. This series has now led on to a spin-off series, the Connection Trilogy, with books entitled Blood Red, Code Blue and Darkest Green. All her books so far, which will number twenty by the time Darkest Green is available, have been published by Bloodhound Books.
She is now in her mid-seventies, happily writing most days and would dearly love to plan a novel, but has accepted that isn’t the way of her mind. Every novel starts with a sentence and she waits to see where that sentence will take her, and her characters. If writer's block intrudes, be sure there will be a death.
In her life away from the computer in the corner of her kitchen, she is a Sheffield Wednesday supporter with blue blood in her veins! Her genre is murder - necessary murder.
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