The first in a new cozy mystery series featuring nurse and amateur sleuth Kate Palmer.
Kate Palmer, divorced for 25 years, and her widowed sister, Angie, have moved to Cornwall and bought Lavender Cottage in the little village of Lower Tinworthy. While attending a lecture at the Women's Institute, the talk is interrupted by a murder. Kate finds Fenella Barker-Jones, wife of one of the richest men in town, with a kitchen knife in her chest. Attending the scene is Detective Inspector Woody Forrest, and soon he and Kate are sharing more than a mutual interest in the investigation. When one of the suspects for the killing also turns up dead, Kate decides that she has a pressing need to figure out what happened. NO SPOILERS
There are plenty of red herrings and Kate is quite busy nosing around in the way of the amateur as she tries to identify the killer. This was a fast read with lots of detail about Cornwall and the countryside along with many interesting characters. As Kate is 57 years old, this series might have a large appeal to persons of a certain age. I was drawn to select it to review because Kate was a nurse and indeed, there are some details about her job, but it isn't at all related to the murder mystery. I may have the inclination to read the next in the series.
Thank you to Bookouture for this e-book ARC to read and review.
This is the first in a new series that I would read in order.
Genre - cozy murder mystery
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