When the least-liked woman in Wendlebury Barrow collapses inside a headless Anne Boleyn costume while tied to the rail of a float in the village show, newcomer Sophie Sayers, like all the other villagers, accepts the verdict of death by natural causes.
“What had begun as a simple proposition – to live in a rent-free cottage, in a pleasant stable community while pursuing the writing ambitions that I’d held since childhood – now seemed fraught with traps, difficulties and dangers”.
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By Chapter Four, I was intrigued by a heroine who shops for “just the essentials”, those being – shortbread, cake, chocolate, wine – at Carols’ alphabetical shop. You know, the kind of shop where you find the postcards by the plums and The Times by the turnips.
Who wouldn’t want to jump into the next chapters when they’re titled “Reader, I Left Him”, “The Cream of the Bookshop”, “Writers Afloat”, or “Beware of the Wardrobe”.
Debbie Young’s Best Murder in Show is the first of seven Sophie Sayers Village Mysteries. Trick or Murder” and Murder in The Manger are next and available everywhere including Book Depository. Asking for them at your friendly local (or village) book shop would be most appropriate for a novel in which a very entrepreneurial book shop features prominently.
You can learn more about these titles and her short story collections, including Marry In Haste, at Debbie Young’s website.
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