Life couldn’t be sweeter for Honey Driver, floating around the Med on her own private yacht, with her dishy detective husband Steve. But dark clouds are gathering on Honey’s perfect horizon. And the forecast looks like murder!
When Honey’s love boat sinks in a freak accident, she has no choice but to return to rain-drenched Bath. But now that Honey needs him, her insurance broker, silver-tongued Norman Glendower, is nowhere to be found.
He’s not at his luxury offices in town and he’s not answering his phone.
Honey could kill Norman for leaving her in this fix. But what if someone got there first?
Behind the gates of leafy Regency Gardens, the exclusive complex where Norman lives, something is terribly amiss. Norman’s mewling cat leads a curious neighbour straight to his dead body!
He’s been bludgeoned and left for dead on the pristine tiles of his designer kitchen.
Which of his many enemies was the one to strike the fatal blow?
Honey’s on the case — with a killer watching her every move . . .
Jean, the alter ego of bestselling historical author Lizzie Lane, has lived in and around the Bath area for some time and was indeed a member of Bath Hotels and Restaurants Association — so well in touch with the hospitality trade in that fair city. However, unlike Bath hotelier Honey
Driver, she was never asked to be Crime Liaison Officer and neither does she collect antique underwear! However, her daughter assures her she is just as zany as the quirky Honey Driver and will never grow old gracefully.
My thoughts: This is why I don’t trust boats, I don’t get seasick or anything like that, but they do seem very fragile for things you trust not to dump you into the sea where you might end up getting eaten!
After Honey and Steve’s adventures return them to solid ground rather abruptly, it turns out that for a police detective, Steve is incredibly naive, he trusted a man he only met in a pub to insure the boat, and now it looks like it might have been a scam. Oh, and the man in question? He’s been murdered. But which one of his many shady acquaintances and unneighbourly neighbours did it?
Honey and her mad psychic friend borrow the deceased’s cat, interrogate the neighbours, there’s another death and a bit of arson to go with it, Steve is investigating officially, but obviously the unofficial pair get a lot further, and Honey’s mother inadvertently helps them out.
And for now it looks like drifting about is off the table for Honey and Steve as there’s no pay out coming their way, good thing there’s always crime to solve!
*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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Thank you so much for being a part of the tour x
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