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A review by ppcfransen
The Cream Tea Killer by Judy Leigh
3.0
This started out as a wild ride, but lost me some towards the end.
I was a little apprehensive at first. The main character is in her sixties. I’ve read other books with 60+ sleuths and those were all of the darling old lady variety. No such thing with Morwenna. She may be grey-haired, but that does not stop her from getting to the bottom of things, including a little law breaking. Which I normally find very annoying when the sleuth does that, but Morwenna could have asked me to stand watch for her and I still wouldn’t have tried to talk her out of it.
Somewhere around the middle, the mystery started to sag about. Perhaps I had other things on my mind, but mostly it was that Morwenna didn’t snoop so much as had chance encounters that turned out to be usefull.
The book completely lost me towards the end with the killer’s confession. This killer could have gotten away with it if not for the confrontation with the sleuth, and is smart enough to have realized that. (But why did the killer leave a day between killing Irina and searching her office for her laptop?)
I read an ARC through NetGalley.
I was a little apprehensive at first. The main character is in her sixties. I’ve read other books with 60+ sleuths and those were all of the darling old lady variety. No such thing with Morwenna. She may be grey-haired, but that does not stop her from getting to the bottom of things, including a little law breaking. Which I normally find very annoying when the sleuth does that, but Morwenna could have asked me to stand watch for her and I still wouldn’t have tried to talk her out of it.
Somewhere around the middle, the mystery started to sag about. Perhaps I had other things on my mind, but mostly it was that Morwenna didn’t snoop so much as had chance encounters that turned out to be usefull.
The book completely lost me towards the end with the killer’s confession. This killer could have gotten away with it if not for the confrontation with the sleuth, and is smart enough to have realized that. (But why did the killer leave a day between killing Irina and searching her office for her laptop?)
I read an ARC through NetGalley.