Bob and Shirley run a lovely country pub. They also solve
murders ...
A warmly funny, gloriously British cozy crime and murder mystery
series that can be read as standalones or part of a series. Set in a village
where the pub is the heart of country life and served with warmth, wit and a
very good Sunday roast.
“Murder? In our
quiet, little English village?
Great Oakley is a
place of hanging baskets, tearooms and riverside walks. We’ve won ‘Britain’s
safest village’ 10 years running. I keep three pound coins, a box of toffees
and a bottle of Pepto-Bismol on my dashboard at all times, and I’ve never
needed to lock my car.
Certainly, Bevvy
Hogg was disliked. She ran the local Waist Watchers group, yet came to our pub
for fish and chips, treacle tart and a bottle of Chardonnay every Friday. But I
don’t think she was murdered …”
When Bevvy Hogg is
found dead in the Goose and Gander pub garden, with an empty treacle tart plate
beside her and several dress sizes slimmer than anyone remembers, Great
Oakley’s winning streak as Britain’s safest village comes to an abrupt end.
Review
Bob and Shirley's Guide to Murder by
Suzy K. Quinn
My rating:
4 of 5 stars
This was delightful and funny! I could read this every day and I would watch the HECK out of it as a series. Bob and Shirley are on the hunt to save their dessert and town reputation by solving the first murder in too many years to matter. They are persistent little sleuths with so little on the line that of course they can't leave well enough alone. This a laugh-out-loud who-dunnit that can easily be read in a few hours. The characters are delightful. Your sadness at finishing this book will only be alleviated by realizing it's a series so you won't have to leave Great Oakley forever. There will almost certainly be more frivolous mysteries for Bob and Shirley to muck through.
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Author Bio –
Suzy K Quinn (hello – it’s me!) is writing this bio in the
third person. Which feels duplicitous and also a little egotistical. But here
goes ...
Suzy K Quinn writes book club books and murder mystery
series, and has sold over 1 million copies worldwide. She's a bestselling
author in the US, UK and Germany and will soon, very possibly, have written
more books than she's read.
Suzy lives in Wivenhoe, Essex, with her husband
and two daughters. She is a twin, an incompetent parent of two and now fully
decaffeinated. Her twin sister, Cate Quinn, is also a bestseller author. When
Suzy isn't writing in cafes, she is walking around woods dictating like a
lunatic.
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Giveaway to
Win an e-copy of Bob and Shirley's Killer Cuppa Puzzle (Open INT)
One of Great
Oakley’s five open gardens served poisoned tea. Can you work out which one
before Bob does?
‘Like Murdle and a cozy mystery rolled into one.’
Murder mystery logic puzzle stories for fans of The Killer Isn’t Alice, Murdle
and Can You Solve the Murder?
These are ‘Puzzlories’. Read them like stories, solve them like puzzles. Each
one takes about an hour to read and solve.
It’s Open Gardens weekend in Great Oakley. Five gardeners have opened their
gardens to the public, and each is offering a unique drink, cake, flower and
interesting garden feature to their fellow villagers.
Unfortunately, one garden owner poured poisoned tea. Probably not on purpose.
But you never know. There are more murders in Britain’s safest village than you
might imagine.
Village pub landlady Shirley Duffy visited all five open gardens before
returning to the Goose and Gander for a much-needed beer and a sit down. One of
those five gardens was the scene of the crime.
The trouble is, Shirley’s memory is known to be … selective. She can remember
every cake she’s eaten since 1987, but not necessarily when and where she ate
it. And she can’t remember which garden served tea on Saturday afternoon.
Shirley’s husband, Bob, is frustrated that Shirley can’t remember one garden
from another. But he finds many things about his wife frustrating, and loves
her anyway.
As Bob presses Shirley for details, the clues pile up. Your job is to note them
down and work out who served the tea before Bob does.
Twenty clues, one in every short chapter. Fill in your detective’s grid, cross
off your suspects and name the poisoner.
Grab your notebook, put the kettle on (carefully) and see if you can beat Bob
to the answer.
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