When retired primary school teachers Pat, Thelma and Liz bump into their old colleague, Topsy, they are shocked by the rapid decline in her health. A week later Topsy is dead. As a result of a couple of comments that Topsy made when they had met the women think she may have been murdered and set out to find out the truth.
A Spoonful Of Murder will join the many cosy crime novels springing up at the moment. This is a well thought through whodunit, with plenty of red herrings. Whilst I struggled with the writing style I did like the main characters. Years of dealing with primary school children give Pat, Thelma and Liz the skills needed to investigate and interrogate. Combined with their plain, straightforward Yorkshire personalities no-one is safe from their gaze.
Absolutely everyone is a suspect and the ladies cover the gamut from pensioners luncheon clubs to Zumba Insanity and male strippers. Who knew that the life of retired primary school teachers in Yorkshire was so exciting?
Whilst trying to solve the murder the lead characters uncover other crimes and have to solve problems closer to home, this made Pat, Thelma and Liz seem more real.
A Spoonful Of Murder by J. M. Hall will be published in paperback, ebook and audio format on 17th March 2022. My thanks to NetGalley and Avon Books UK for a preview copy.
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