TWO ESTRANGED SISTERS. ONE DISAPPEARING BODY
Returning to Little Clarsden to claim her half of Rose Cottage, Frankie receives a chilly reception from her estranged sister, Julia, who still nurtures an old grievance. Hoping to manage their fractured relationship, they take part in a murder mystery weekend at a Somerset mansion. But the playful intrigue turns deadly when they stumble upon a real corpse.
Amid the glamour and intrigue of the other guests and the actors slipping in and out of character, it’s difficult to distinguish between fact and fiction. Nothing and no one is as they seem
With a killer on the loose, a body that vanishes without a trace, and trust in short supply, Frankie and Julia must set aside their differences to uncover the truth.
Can the sisters solve the mystery before they become the next victim?
This is the first book in this intriguing, witty, cosy crime series.
My thoughts: This was a fun, funny, entertaining and enjoyable read as estranged sisters, forced to co-habit by their late aunt’s will, end up on a murder mystery holiday where the murders end up being rather more real than expected.
Julia is bored with retirement and her long held plan of writing a book isn’t happening. When chaotic sister Frankie crashes back into her life, she’s furious. At the village fete Frankie wins a murder mystery weekend for two in the raffle, and so the sisters head off to Medfield House in Somerset to play at being detectives. Only someone is using the fake murders as cover for real ones.
Julia and Frankie set about solving both sets of deaths, the fictional and the non. Julia’s actually a rather brilliant detective, her many years running a school means she’s excellent at sussing people out and Frankie, while far more impulsive, isn’t too bad either. It might even cure Julia’s writer’s block.
This is the first book in the series and I’m looking forward to seeing where the sisters end up next.
*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book to read and review, but all opinions remain my own*
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