A NEW BEATTIE BRAMSHAW MYSTERY –
It’s the summer of 2001, and for WI Secretary and practised busybody Beattie Bramshaw, it’s a time of new beginnings.
Her much-anticipated wedding to vegetable grower extraordinaire Doug Sparrow is now just months away. However, in the throes of setting up their marital home and new market garden business, she receives a surprise request to care for a distant relative.
Likewise, a number of her fellow Elmesbury residents also find their lives on the cusp of change, and not all for the good. Is it pure chance that the arrival of Beattie’s young ward coincides with yet
another murder in the village? Or were plans already afoot?
Once again, Beattie picks up the gauntlet, but can she solve the case and uncover the murderer’s identity before it casts a shadow over her wedding to Doug?
Toffee Apple Strudel is a comedy crime caper in the style of Agatha Raisin and sees the conclusion of the ‘Beattie Bramshaw Mysteries series’. Make a brew, grab a chair, and prepare for a fun-filled finale.
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Susan A. King lives with her husband in the North East’s equivalent to San Tropez,
otherwise known as Hartlepool.
The inspiration for her debut novel, Marrow Jam, came from her long experience and observation of competitors at a local country show where she regularly aspires to win Best in Show with her floral arrangements. Unsuccessful to date, she has been tempted to investigate more underhand methods by which to acquire the trophy but has yet to sink to the depths described in her novel. Or so she would have you believe!
Marrow Jam was shortlisted for the Write Here, Right Now novel competition at the Bradford Literature Festival.
The second book in the ‘Beattie Bramshaw Mysteries series’, Banana Devil Cake, is available in e-book and both are published by Eye/Lightning Books.
Toffee Apple Strudel sees the conclusion of the ‘Beattie Bramshaw Mysteries series’.
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My thoughts: I hadn’t read the previous books in this series and you don’t really need to (unless you want to) to follow this story. Beattie is a bit of a busy body, but in a village where everything anyone does is fuel for the gossip mill, it’s hardly surprising.
She’s asked to take in her cousin’s moody teenage granddaughter for a bit, as her mother’s had an accident and her grandmother is off to be nurse maid. Unfortunately Beattie has zero idea what to do with a teenager, and they initially struggle to get along.
While dealing with her new guest, wedding planning, a house move and setting up a business, Beattie also finds time to be secretary of the local WI, and when tragedy strikes, she decides to investigate. Something’s not right, and she’ll find out what it is, one way or another. Although the local police would rather she didn’t.
Fun, with definite shades of Agatha Raisin and other series where the person who always cracks the case really isn’t the police but a very sharp local with a nose for lies and secrets.
*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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