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Julia Bird loves the village pub quiz, but it seems one of her team won’t make it to the next round alive…
On the first Tuesday of each month, Julia Bird and her Agatha Quiz team teammates take part in Berrywick’s village pub quiz. They take it seriously – what’s the point of playing, after all, if you aren’t in it to win it? But it seems someone connected with the quiz night has taken the competition to a whole new level when Lilian, the local police constable and all-round general knowledge expert, is found fatally stabbed after the evening’s final round.
With local DI Hayley Gibson stuck home with a broken leg and an incompetent Superintendent brought in from the nearby town, it’s up to Julia to make sure the investigation stays focused – whether they like it or not! While the police are convinced that the murderer is linked to Lilian’s professional life, Julia turns her amateur sleuthing eye to suspects much closer to home. Perhaps Lilian’s personal life could have something to do with the dreadful crime?
When another quiz team member is attacked, Julia finally put on the right track. But what could possibly be important – or dangerous – enough for two attendees of the pub quiz night to meet such foul ends over? Could the culprit really be someone out of all those there that busy Tuesday night? As Julia’s race to identify the killer ramps up to desperate heights, she wonders, where will the murderous spree end…?
Perfect for fans of M.C. Beaton, Faith Martin and Betty Rowlands, Murder at the Inn is a brilliantly compelling English cozy mystery.
REVIEW:
This is book 4 in the series. I love Julia- she's an older character, who is finding herself after major shake up in her personal life. With her daughter soon to give birth, she's now looking at being a grandmother, and managing it from the other side of the world. So it seems like a great idea to fill in on a quiz team, and see if it is something he and her boyfriend would be interested in. Only things go from good to worse when her favorite coppers get run down and one is out of commission, and then a body turns up. Soon Julia is on track, getting people to open up to her, and to be DI Gibson's feet on the ground. When the worse happens, it will need all their combined mind power to solve the case and determine who is the true murder among them. One of the better books in the series, this is one you can't put down!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Katie Gayle is the writing partnership of Kate Sidley and Gail Schimmel. Follow them on Twitter @KatieGayleBooks.
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