Jodie ‘Nosey’ Parker is back!
When a body turned up at her last catering gig it certainly put people off the hor d’oeuvres. So with a reputation to salvage, Jodie’s determined that her next job for the village’s festival will go without a hitch.
But when chaos breaks out, Jodie Parker somehow always finds herself in the picture.
The body of a writer from the festival is discovered at the bottom of a cliff, and the prime suspect is the guest of honour, the esteemed painter Duncan Stovall. With her background in the Met police, Jodie has got solving cases down to a fine art and she knows things are rarely as they seem.
Can she find the killer before the village faces another brush with death?
The second book in the Jodie ‘Nosey’ Parker cosy mystery series. Can be read as a standalone. A humorous cosy mystery with a British female sleuth in a small village. Includes one of Jodie’s Tried and Tested Recipes! Written in British English. Mild profanity and peril.
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I received a copy of this book from One More Chapter via NetGalley in return for an honest review.
My Thoughts…
Romance is definitely on the menu in book two of the Nosey Parker Mysteries. Jodie determined to make a success of her new catering business secures a civic function but not unexpectedly, things don’t go to plan. It’s lust at first sight with Duncan, a local artist, but unfortunately, he’s married and a suspect in the village’s latest death. Her relationship with Tony, her childhood friend, is strong, but her new friendship with DCI Withers is tortuous though, they do move closer to a professional understanding.
Humour underscores the cosy mystery plot with memorable contributions from Jodie’s mum and our catering detective’s internal monologues. However, it’s the romantic relationships woven into the plot that dominates this story. The mystery is more straightforward than in the first book but still entertaining, and the character development and dynamics keep the reader invested in the story.
Read my review of Murder on the Menu (Book1)
Fiona Leitch is a writer with a chequered past. She’s written for football and motoring magazines, DJ’ed at illegal raves and is a stalwart of the low budget TV commercial, even appearing as the Australasian face of a cleaning product called ‘Sod Off’. After living in London and Cornwall she’s finally settled in sunny New Zealand, where she enjoys scaring her cats by trying out dialogue on them. She spends her days dreaming of retiring to a crumbling Venetian palazzo, walking on the windswept beaches of West Auckland, and writing funny, flawed but awesome female characters. Her debut novel and first in the Bella Tyson series, ‘Dead in Venice’, was published by Audible as one of their Crime Grant finalists. Fiona is represented by Lina Langlee at the North Literary Agency.
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