Blog Tour: Foul Play at Seal Bay – Judy Leigh

It was meant to be the start of quiet season in the sleepy Cornish village of Seal Bay, but not for sexagenarian librarian and wild swimming enthusiast Morwenna Mutton. Because when a local businessman is found on the beach with a bread knife is his back, bungling police officer DI Rick Tremayne is soon out of his depth. Morwenna knows it’s going to be down to her to crack the case.
The list of people the victim upset is long, the evidence is slight, and an arrest illusive. Morwenna has plenty to occupy her time what with ghostly goings-on at the library and skullduggery at her
granddaughter’s school, but she could never resist a challenge. And even the most ruthless of murderers should quake at the sight of this amateur sleuth getting on her bike to track them down.
If you love Miss Marple and The Thursday Murder Club, then you’ll love The Morwenna Mutton mysteries.
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Judy Leigh is the USA Today bestselling author of The Old Girls’ Network and Five French Hens and the doyenne of the ‘it’s never too late’ genre of women’s fiction. She has lived all over the UK from Liverpool to Cornwall, but currently resides in Somerset.

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My thoughts: having walked up and down some Cornish hills, the maddest thing about Morwenna might be her cycling! The wild swimming, the long hair in her sixties, her colourful wardrobe are all fine but I cannot imagine anyone willingly going up and down Cornwall’s steep and crazy hills on a bike.

Apart from that, I think Morwenna’s great, she’s smart, brave and more capable than she might appear. After finding a local businessman dead on the beach at her daughter’s engagement party, and seeing how utterly hopeless the local police are at solving it, she decides to find out who murdered him herself. And as her family get drawn into the killer’s crimes, it’s up to Morwenna, with a little help from her friends, to save the day and stop anything else from happening.

I loved her mad librarian friends, who think a local ghost is giving them clues via the library books as well as making a rather smelly mess. Her mother, Lamorna, is a wonderful classic British (Cornish) eccentric (and shares a name with a delightful pottery) and then there’s her granddaughter Elowen. Who has an invisible dog called Oggy. I loved Elowen, I loved Oggy, and Oggy 2. She’s delightful.

This was a lot of fun to read and the twist as to who the killer is was very unexpected. Although there were clues, that I missed, throughout. I hope there will be more Morwenna.

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