Since Amber started the Bad Girls’ Detective Agency, she’s been feeling the pressure. So – when she and her best friends win a trip to a new luxury castle retreat on a remote island – she hopes it will be a chance to relax in style.
The girls are all excited to experience world-famous chef Valerie la Fontaine’s tasting menu.
But none of them expect there to be another dish being served that weekend: revenge. And when Valerie is found dead inside a locked room in a tower, the Bad Girls know this is a case that only they
can solve…
Hilarious and gripping mystery – perfect for fans of The Thursday Murder Club, The
Traitors, and How to Kill Men and Get Away With It.
Katie Marsh wrote five bestselling, uplifting women’s fiction novels before turning to cosy crime for Boldwood. Previously published by Hodder, the first in her new crime series How Not To Murder Your Ex, following the fortunes of the Bad Girls Detective Agency, will be published in December 2023.
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My thoughts: I am constantly surprised at how many people willingly go to remote, easily cut off islands in crime novels, Amber is a former cop turned PI and even she doesn’t think it could end badly, but it does.
Having won a supposedly glamorous weekend at a luxury hotel run by a famous chef, with food so good they’re salivating on the boat across to the island, Amber’s hoping for some time to relax, to stop worrying about running out of money and not being able to pay her team/friends. However life has other plans.
Someone really doesn’t want Valerie La Fontaine to continue, they know her biggest secret and they want revenge for something she did years before. And they’ve chosen this weekend, as she launches her new hotel, as the perfect time for her to get her comeuppance.
Of course they didn’t know that Amber and co would be there, how could they? Trapped in a storm, phone line cut, no mobile signal, no WiFi, guess it’s up to them to work out who among their fellow guests and the skeleton staff is the killer, preferably before anyone else dies.
There’s lots of secrets and hidden agendas at play as they try to stay together and investigate in a house full of secret passageways and locked doors. Is there someone else on the island? Supposedly, some protesters are hiding somewhere, but Amber’s not so sure. Something isn’t quite right.
Funny, a bit silly at times (in the best way), clever and highly entertaining.
*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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