A Body in a Cornish Village is the seventh Kate Palmer village cozy mystery by Dee MacDonald. Released 17th Aug 2023, it's 258 pages and is available in paperback, audio, and ebook formats. It's worth noting that the ebook format has a handy interactive table of contents as well as interactive links and references throughout. For Kindle Unlimited subscribers, this book is currently included in the KU subscription library to borrow and read for free, along with the rest of books in the series.
Readers who
enjoy British village cozy mysteries are
in for a treat. Series protagonist Kate is a village
nurse who is involved with a local expat American retired inspector. She
keeps finding herself in the middle of village mysteries from poisoned
pen letters to murder and the crimes show no signs of stopping. This time, a cookery show is in town and the show's unlamented writer / producer inconveniently drops dead leaving a plethora of credible suspects for being responsible for his demise..
The author is quite adept at characterization and setting. The characters live and breathe and the dialogue was never clunky. There were several seemingly disparate plot threads which intertwined into a satisfying denouement and resolution. Despite being the seventh book in the series, it worked well as a standalone, though there are some spoilers for earlier books if read out of order.
Four
stars. This is definitely one for
British village cozy readers. Very well written and constructed. Clean
language and mostly off-page violence. The clues and plotting are "fair
play" and readers are invited to figure out the puzzle alongside Kate.
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.
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