A Spoonful of Murder: The first book in a hilarious and totally unputdownable cosy murder mystery series for fans of The Thursday Murder Club

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But one fateful week, as they are catching up with a slice of cake, they bump into their ex-colleague, Topsy. That’s certainly the case when it comes to Liz, Thelma and Pat, the three women who, in true Miss Marple style, find themselves in the midst of a case of murder. The style was slow and meandering, especially at first, and I often put the book down, wondering when it would ignite, but each time, I was drawn back to pick it up to read ‘just another couple of chapters’ until I was hooked. Thelma, Pat and Liz are like I said (but it is worth repeating) barely over sixty, they do not know what emojis are, distrust online banking and act much older.

Written by a first-time (and ex-teacher) author, the friendship of the three main protagonists, built upon a shared history of tea, support and companionship nurtured on the worn chairs of their former staff room, is steeped with authenticity. The police seem to be content with the explanation that all was just a mistake, and after doing some investigating, the death is declared an accident. According to its billing, it should appeal to fans of Richard Osman's, "The Thursday Murder Club" and there are certainly some obvious parallels - not least the group of pensioners who get together for their regular "coffee o'clock sessions" in the café at the local garden centre on a Thursday!Gossiping about family and their old days teaching it's a low stress hour out of their "busy" schedules. The girls decide to visit Topsy at her home to check up on her and see what exactly is going on, while there they discover that she has lost all of her life savings and has been a victim of fraud. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

Ir viso to darosi jau kiek per daug – o juk dar nekalbu apie kiekvienos iš protagonisčių asmenines bėdas ir problemėles, kurioms vietos irgi negailima. Fans of Agatha Christie, Death in Paradise and Midsomer Murders will be hooked from the very first page. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. Now, as you can imagine, this is not a fast paced thriller, but it is a book that drew me in and kept me pondering about the who, the what and the why – heck even the if – of the alleged murder. O kokį dar gali palikti istorijos apie bejėgius, beviltiškoje padėtyje atsidūrusius žmones ir tuos, kas be sąžinės graužaties naudojasi svetima nelaime?

There must be a thing now with older amateur sleuth stories, as I’ve read more than I had expected to recently. The book has a lot of characters and subplots and false clues, but the author has tied them all up in the end. Topsy is clearly suffering from some form of memory related illness and it's clearly taking a toll on Kellyanne. If I was to sum this book up in one sentence I would explain it to be A cross between Thursday Murder Club and Elizabeth is Missing. It reminded me of ‘Dinner Ladies’ a Uk sketch show meets ‘Midsomer Murders’ a uk drama come something else in between that I cannot quite think of.

For all ebook purchases, you will be prompted to create an account or login with your existing HarperCollins username and password. It is thought-provoking as it explores the difficulties of living and coping with dementia; the unscrupulous 'thieving bastards' who prey on the vulnerable: the seemingly helpful voice on the phone from 'your bank', intent on defrauding decent folk of their hard-earned savings; the con man who offers to do jobs that don’t need doing for a lot of money which needs to be paid in cash.

It may just be me, but I found that this group of retired primary school teachers really didn’t really have enough individualism going on for me to be able to completely tell them apart. So, what started out as being completely bedazzled by a lovely cover actually ended up in a couple of hours of truly entertaining reading.

M. Hall, narrator Julie Hesmondhalgh, publisher Avon Books and NetGalleyUK for the opportunity to read and review this charming and enthralling story. If you like a good cosy crime, with emotional and thoughtful undercurrent, this may well be the book for you.It brought so much more to the book and I hope other audios include something similar in the future.