5/9/2023 0 Comments The cost of living rachel ward![]() The plot may stretch credibility a little (which I didn’t mind at all) but the relationships between the main characters are utterly believable. We learn about their, in some cases unusual, backgrounds and history and enjoy their friendships developing. Griffiths makes you really care about Natalka, Edwin, Benedict and Harbinder. What marks this book out from others in the cosy crime genre is the fine and complex characterisation. For this reader, there are rather delicious references to the crime-writing world. The action keeps coming with surprising twists and turns. This is a light-hearted read in the vein of Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club or S. The case takes them through the murky world of publishing and to further deaths before the truth is finally revealed. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Natalka investigates, helped by Peggy’s friends, eighty-year-old former BBC Radio 3 presenter, Edwin, and ex-monk turned coffee barista, Benedict, and also local police detective D.S. For Peggy was a ‘murder consultant’ who plotted deaths for authors and had told Natalka that someone was following her. When ninety-year-old Peggy Smith is found dead in her armchair by the window in a care home by the sea, her death is put down to natural causes, but her carer, Natalka, suspects foul play. ![]()
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