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Bob and Shirley run a lovely country pub. They also solve murders …

A warmly funny, gloriously British cozy crime and murder mystery series that can be read as standalones or part of a series. Set in a village where the pub is the heart of country life and served with warmth, wit and a very good Sunday roast.

“Murder? In our quiet, little English village?
Great Oakley is a place of hanging baskets, tearooms and riverside walks. We’ve won ‘Britain’s safest village’ 10 years running. I keep three pound coins, a box of toffees and a bottle of Pepto-Bismol on my dashboard at all times, and I’ve never needed to lock my car.
Certainly, Bevvy Hogg was disliked. She ran the local Waist Watchers group, yet came to our pub for fish and chips, treacle tart and a bottle of Chardonnay every Friday. But I don’t think she was murdered …”

When Bevvy Hogg is found dead in the Goose and Gander pub garden, with an empty treacle tart plate beside her and several dress sizes slimmer than anyone remembers, Great Oakley’s winning
streak as Britain’s safest village comes to an abrupt end.

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Suzy K Quinn (hello – it’s me!) is writing this bio in the third person. Which feels duplicitous and also a little egotistical. But here goes …

Suzy K Quinn writes book club books and murder mystery series, and has sold over 1 million copies worldwide. She’s a bestselling author in the US, UK and Germany and will soon, very possibly, have written more books than she’s read.

Suzy lives in Wivenhoe, Essex, with her husband and two daughters. She is a twin, an incompetent parent of two and now fully decaffeinated. Her twin sister, Cate Quinn, is also a bestseller author.
When Suzy isn’t writing in cafes, she is walking around woods dictating like a lunatic.

Suzy loves her readers and is ALWAYS happy to chat on facebook
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My thoughts: This is very funny, Bob and Shirley alternate in telling you their theories, suspicions and personal vendettas (mostly Shirley).

Pub regular Bevvy Hogg is found by Bob one morning as he goes to check on his tomatoes, dead on the patio he lovingly power washes every week. There’s a suspicious yellow stain next to her and she’s removed her ever present cardigan.

Bevvy was in the pub the night before, downing jugs of water and acting a bit strange. Was she poisoned by John Boy’s cooking? Bob and Shirley are sure their nephew is innocent and are determined to prove it so he can enter the village bake off, but who killed Bevvy Hogg and why? 

It’s a convoluted tale of bitter people and long held grudges (many of them Shirley’s) with cake, fish and chips, a Sunday roast and a brand new uncorruptible police constable working on solving the case with some help from Bob’s spreadsheets, a fox called Cyril and Shirley’s unique way with words.   

Giveaway to Win an e-copy of Bob and Shirley’s Killer Cuppa Puzzle (Open INT)**

One of Great Oakley’s five open gardens served poisoned tea. Can you work out which one before  Bob does?

‘Like Murdle and a cozy mystery rolled into one.’

Murder mystery logic puzzle stories for fans of The Killer Isn’t Alice, Murdle and Can You Solve the  Murder?

These are ‘Puzzlories’. Read them like stories, solve them like puzzles. Each one takes about an hour  to read and solve.

It’s Open Gardens weekend in Great Oakley. Five gardeners have opened their gardens to the public,  and each is offering a unique drink, cake, flower and interesting garden feature to their fellow
villagers.

Unfortunately, one garden owner poured poisoned tea. Probably not on purpose. But you never  know. There are more murders in Britain’s safest village than you might imagine.

Village pub landlady Shirley Duffy visited all five open gardens before returning to the Goose and Gander for a much-needed beer and a sit down. One of those five gardens was the scene of the  crime.
The trouble is, Shirley’s memory is known to be … selective. She can remember every cake she’s  eaten since 1987, but not necessarily when and where she ate it. And she can’t remember which
garden served tea on Saturday afternoon.

Shirley’s husband, Bob, is frustrated that Shirley can’t remember one garden from another. But he finds many things about his wife frustrating, and loves her anyway.
As Bob presses Shirley for details, the clues pile up. Your job is to note them down and work out who served the tea before Bob does.

Twenty clues, one in every short chapter. Fill in your detective’s grid, cross off your suspects and  name the poisoner.Grab your notebook, put the kettle on (carefully) and see if you can beat Bob to the answer.

*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in this blog tour, but all opinions remain my own.

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