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The Twenty Dates by Ko Porteous #Review #EmptyNesters

It is good to return to The Empty Nesters series by Ko Porteous. The Twenty Dates was published by All Ways Publishing Ltd on October 8th. You can read my review of Book 1, The Freshman Parents   here The kids have left, assuming love endures. But can yours? Book #2 in The Empty Nesters Series   Claire’s marriage is in (total!) crisis. Her husband, Mark, is distracted, presumptuous, and utterly clueless - smart scales for their 19th wedding anniversary? Really? Perhaps she'd be better off alone. At least there'd be less laundry.   When Claire suggests separating, Mark panics. He asks for one last chance: twenty dates, one for each year of their marriage, to prove they're better off together than apart. What follows is a series of adventures Claire never saw coming - some mortifying, some exhilarating, and some that make her question everything she thought she knew. About Mark. About marriage. And about the woman she's quietly become while she wasn't payin...
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A Messy Affair by Elizabeth Mundy #Review


 Today, I am featuring the latest standalone novel in Elizabeth Mundy's Lena Szarka Mysteries Series, A Messy Affair. It is the third in the series and was published on 2nd January by Constable Little,Brown.

The only way is murder…



Lena Szarka, a Hungarian cleaner working in London, is forced to brush up on her detective skills for a third time when her cousin Sarika is plunged into danger.



Sarika and her reality TV star boyfriend Terry both receive threatening notes.  When Terry stops calling, Lena assumes he’s lost interest. Until he turns up. Dead. Lena knows she must act fast to keep her cousin from the same fate.



Scrubbing her way through the grubby world of reality television, online dating and betrayed lovers, Lena finds it harder than she thought to discern what’s real – and what’s just for the cameras.



My Thoughts

I haven't read any of the earlier books in this series, but that didn't seem to matter. I was able to enjoy it just the same. Lena proved to be a feisty and determined sleuth with the perfect cover for her investigating activities- that of a cleaner. Able to go about unremarked on, she can watch and listen, swallowed up in the background to people's lives. 

    Lena's strong sense of family draws her into this mystery. References to Reality Television and multicultural life gives this cosy crime a slight edge which feels current. I also enjoyed the lightness of touch in the writing. It was light-hearted and never gruesome. The plot however turned out to be quite dense with some twists and turns along the way. In all, it is well worth a read.

In short: A satisfying cosy crime with an up to date edge. 
 
About the Author



Elizabeth Mundy’s grandmother was a Hungarian immigrant to America who raised five children on a chicken farm in Indiana. Elizabeth is a marketing director for an investment firm and lives in London with her messy husband and two young children. She writes the Lena Szarka Mysteries, featuring a Hungarian cleaner as detective.  

You can follow Elizabeth here: Twitter  |  Facebook   |  Instagram 
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Book links: Amazon UK   |  Amazon US

Thanks to Elizabeth Mundy, Constable Little,Brown and Rachel of Rachel's Random Resources  for a copy of the book and a place on the tour.


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