Series: The Nosey Parker Mysteries #2
Published by One More Chapter on May 1, 2023
Format: Audiobook
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Also by this author: Dead in Venice, Murder Ahoy! , Murder on the Menu, A Sprinkle of Sabotage (The Nosey Parker Mysteries #3)
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.
Fiona never fails to keep me entertained with her books from her Bella series to her now Nosey Parker series, I have loved every book. The writing, I don’t even know how to explain it, she writes how I would expect her to talk. It’s so conversational and inclusive. She doesn’t beat about the bush, she says it how it is… I LOVE IT!
I have been such a MASSIVE fan of Fiona’s for years, and I can’t see that changing. She has created a series with Nosey aka Jodie, where you are invested. You are so invested in her life, and you want her to be happy.
As much as she had a nice seductive love interest in this book, and I was excited for her, there is only one man (well maybe two) she should be with. They both know it, and it’s actually fun watching them skate about the fact. However, it was lovely to see Jodie get a love interest, she got some romantic spotlight and it just made me love her even more.
I also have to give a shout-out to the narrator Zara – what a woman and what a voice. She kept me engaged in the book and at the moment with my current frame of mind, that is hard to do. It took me far too long to listen to this book but she kept me going. She kept having a conversation with me, telling me what Jodie was doing and how the hell she would get out of this arty mystery.
I am looking forward to the next book, as I need to know what Jodie is going to do next. I love her catering business and at the end of the book, to read the latest recipes by Jodie is such a fab addition to the book!
This series is fun, yes it is about a murder, but it’s not the focal point. It’s lighthearted, it’s a mystery and Jodie is always at the centre of it all! Keep them coming Ms Leitch, keep them coming!
Until the next time xxx
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