Homicide on a Nation Stroll by Katie Gayle – Jen Med’s Guide Critiques

I do love the Julia Chicken sequence by Katie Gayle and jumped on the likelihood to learn Homicide On A Nation Stroll, the newest within the sequence which simply occurs to be out at this time. Glad publication day. My because of writer Bookouture for the tour invite and advance copy for evaluate. Right here’s what the e book’s all about:

Concerning the Guide

Julia Chicken loves a stroll within the countryside. There’s nothing fairly just like the contemporary air and inexperienced rolling hills of the Cotswolds to clear your head. Except you come throughout a useless physique, that’s…

When the native Berrywick vet, Dr Eve Davies, is discovered useless on the backside of a cliff, the police consider it’s nothing greater than a tragic accident, however Julia isn’t so certain. Just some days earlier when she took her canine, Jake, to the vets, Dr Eve mentioned she believed one thing terrible was about to occur. It seems she was proper…

However who would need the beloved village vet useless? Was it her mom Kay, a down-and-out gambler who stands to inherit her unwedded daughter’s dwelling? Was it her assistant Olga, who was near getting fired? Or was it her cut-throat tennis companion Will, with whom Dr Eve had an argument shortly earlier than she took a tumble? And who’s the stranger skulking round Berrywick peering into individuals’s home windows?

When a second physique seems within the precise spot the place Dr Eve was discovered, Julia is aware of it might probably’t be a coincidence. Each victims had been pushed off the cliff, however why? Ought to Julia let sleeping canine lie, or will she be like a canine with a bone to search out the assassin?

A very gripping and charming cosy thriller set within the English countryside. Followers of M.C. Beaton, Religion Martin and Betty Rowlands will love the Julia Chicken Mysteries.

My Ideas

I actually do love these books. A beautiful, Cotswolds set cosy crime sequence that has me smiling from cowl to cowl. If Julia Chicken had been an actual particular person, I’d be a tad cautious of constructing her acquaintance after all, and even being in the identical postcode, as she does appear to draw bother. However there isn’t a higher particular person to be investigating your homicide, ought to that destiny befall you, as, very like Malcolm the Mountie, Julia at all times will get her man. She’s a enjoyable, modern-day, not remotely spinsterly, Miss Marple and in case you are in bother, you might do worse than to run to Julia for her assist.

Now it’s not simply Julia, however her beloved, and troublesome, canine, Jake, who’ve a key half to play on this specific story. After a disastrously enthusiastic bout of tail wagging, Jake finds himself in fairly some ache, prompting Julia to take him to the vets, and introducing us to our soon-to-be-victim, veterinarian Eve Davies. Now, as we, and Julia, each shortly uncover, there’s something troubling Eve, however we’re but to search out out what. And discovering that’s going to be considerably of an issue, on condition that it’s a secret Eve finally ends up taking to her grave …

What I stay about this sequence is that, while the topic is undoubtedly darkish, and on this case sadly very related, the authors handle to inform the story in a approach which stays gentle with out making gentle of the truth that a homicide has been dedicated. They stability the sense of scandal and gossip which you could simply think about flying round a small village like Berrywick, with a stunning vein of fine humour and the passing of daily life in Julia’s world. This time round she is much extra satisfied that one thing dastardly has taken place than her good friend, and native Detective Inspector, Hayley Gibson, who’s shortly satisfied that Eve’s loss of life is nothing greater than a tragic accident. However anybody who has learn any of this sequence is aware of to at all times belief Julia’s instincts – she’s seldom flawed in regards to the what, even when the who typically initially evades her.

There are a superb few suspects in play on this story as you would possibly count on. A number of totally different motives come to gentle, and a few of Eve’s pals and colleagues appear hesitant to inform the entire fact, including an additional layer of thriller to the progress of Julia’s investigation. There is no such thing as a doubting one thing is a foot, however what and why stays a intently guarded secret. There are lots of clues to uncover, hints at what could be, and a shocking connection between no simply the sufferer, however among the suspects too. With good pacing, a superb dose of humour, and some moments of menace which can maintain you in your toes, it’s one other cracking addition to the sequence and undoubtedly advisable. One in all my automated go to sequence after I want a little bit gentle humour however nonetheless need my scrumptious crime primarily based hit.

Concerning the Authors

Katie Gayle is the writing partnership of best-selling South African writers, Kate Sidley and Gail Schimmel. Kate and Gail have, between them, written over ten books of assorted genres, however with Katie Gayle, they each make their debut within the cozy thriller style. Each Gail and Kate stay in Johannesburg, with husbands, youngsters, canine and cats. Not like their sleuth Epiphany Bloom, neither of them have ever stolen a cat from the vet.

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