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Jenny Starling is employed by a village cricket team to provide the refreshments at a celebratory match. However, once again her sleuthing skills are required when womaniser Tris Jones is found dead. Jenny finds it easier in this book than in the previous ones I have read to get the police on side, possibly due […]

It has been a while since I read a history non fiction book. My degree is in History and I love the Tudor period so was thrilled to discover a new insight into the life of Margaret Tudor. She is the sister to Henry VIII who became the Queen of Scotland and whose great grandson […]

This book confused me a little to start with as it was incredibly rich with travel description. A few pages in, the psychological aspect of the book takes over and we see a couple at loggerheads before the man collapses. We are then taken back in time to the start of the relationship between Samantha […]

    The Dancing Girls surpassed all my expectations. I absolutely loved it from the very first page. The book is divided into three parts, each centred around the victim. The plot begins with the murder of Jeanine and the subsequent police investigation which throws up very few leads. We are introduced to the killer […]

What a fab premise for a book! The cats (highly intelligent beings, obviously) can investigate murders! I LOVE this idea! Nero and Marlowe help their hapless human ‘owner’ to find out who, why and how a well known food critic was murdered in her guesthouse. I really loved their interactions with Josie which we as […]