Welcome to a Much Winchmoor Mystery, Rough and Deadly by Paula Williams.
Everyone knows Abe Compton’s Headbender cider is as rough as
a cider can get. But is it deadly?
When self-styled ‘lady of the manor’, Margot
Duckett-Trimble, announces she wouldn’t be seen dead drinking the stuff, who
could have foreseen that, only a few days later, she’d be found, face down, in
a vat of it?
Kat Latcham’s no stranger to murder. Indeed, the once
‘sleepy’ Somerset village of Much Winchmoor is fast gaining a reputation as the
murder capital of the West Country and is ‘as sleepy as a kid on Christmas Eve’
when it’s discovered there’s a murderer running loose in the community again.
Kat has known Abe all her life, and she is sure that,
although he had motive, he didn’t kill Margot. But as she investigates, the
murderer strikes again. And the closer Kat gets to finding out who the real
killer is, the closer to danger she becomes.
This second Much Winchmoor mystery is once again spiked with
humour and sprinkled with romance – plus a cast of colourful characters,
including a manic little dog called Prescott whose bite is definitely worse
than his bark.
My Thoughts
This novel has got an entertaining tone running throughout it and some witty parts which makes it a really enjoyable read. I particularly enjoyed the cast of characters who all had their own idiosyncrasies and who added to the general colour of the story. Much Winchmoor seems like a singular place to find yourself.
The main attraction has to be Kat who has a laconic wit and some very human traits. She really makes you laugh with her asides. Thoroughly likeable, you are automatically on her side from the start. I would have liked Will to figure in the story a little more but hopefully he will appear more in subsequent Much Winchmoor books. This has a cozy crime vibe and the Somerset countryside provides the perfect backdrop.
In short: Murder mystery with a dash of romance- what's not to like?
About the Author
Paula Williams is living her dream. She’s written all her
life – her earliest efforts involved blackmailing her unfortunate younger
brothers into appearing in her plays and pageants. But it’s only in recent
years that she discovered to her surprise that people with better judgement
than her brothers actually liked what she wrote and were prepared to pay her
for it.
Now, she writes every day in a lovely, book-lined study in
her home in Somerset, where she lives with her husband and a handsome but not
always obedient rescue Dalmatian called Duke. She started out writing fiction
for women’s magazines (and still does) but has recently branched out into
longer fiction. She also writes a monthly column, Ideas Store, for the writers’
magazines, Writers’ Forum.
But, as with the best of dreams, she worries that one day
she’s going to wake up and find she still has to bully her brothers into
reading ‘the play what she wrote’.
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