Today is the start of a new feature month on the blog, during May I'll be bringing you a combination of guest features, reviews and giveaways but although the month will predominantly feature a mixture of all things crime, there will also be a few non crime-related posts for blog tours I'd already agreed to host.
So to kick off Crime Fiction month I've bought a trio of Cosy Crime books to give away, I've not read any of these myself but they came highly recommended in the shop.
Murder on Sea by Julie Wassmer (I didn't realise when I bought this that it was book 2 in a series but hopefully it will still read OK as a standalone.)
It's not the season of good will to all men...
The festive month is kicking off in style and Pearl is rushed off her feet with her restaurant, The Whitstable Pearl. She's also busy planning her own family Christmas and providing mulled wine for a charity church fundraiser when Christmas cards begin arriving all over town - filled with spiteful messages from an anonymous writer.
Pearl's curiosity is piqued but having pledged not to take on a case at her detective agency before Christmas, she reluctantly agrees that Canterbury's DCI Mike McGuire should take over; poisoned pen cards are after all a matter for the police. And with only the church fundraiser now between Pearl and Christmas, she invites McGuire along as her guest. The event appears to be a great success; St Alfred's church hall is packed and Pearl happily finds herself standing close to McGuire beneath some mistletoe . . . but then a guest suddenly collapses. Too much of Pearl's delicious mulled wine - or could it be something more sinister?
The last thing Pearl expects for Christmas is murder but soon the bodies are piling up. Can Pearl possibly solve the mystery in time to make 25th December an unforgettable day - or will the murderer contrive to ensure her goose is well and truly cooked before then?
