Genre: Cozy
Mystery
Description:
“When amateur sleuth Emily Castles joins a community theatre project
in Edinburgh, she begins to suspect that she has been recruited by a cult. When
a fellow performer goes missing, she must risk her life to investigate…”
Author:
“Helen Smith travelled the world when her daughter was small, doing
all sorts of strange jobs to support them both - from cleaning motels to
working as a magician's assistant - before returning to live in London where
she wrote her first novel.”
Appraisal:
This is the sixth book in Helen Smith’s cozy mystery series featuring
Emily Castles. Like all of Ms Smith’s books, there are interesting and quirky characters
with subtle humor spread throughout the story.
The setting for this story is especially interesting when Emily finds
herself living and working with a community theatre group where things seem a
bit off. Then a body turns up and Emily does her thing, trying to figure out
what happened. All the words like different, unique, quirky, and unpredictable
that I’d normally pull out to describe one of the previous books in the series
would apply to this one. If you’ve read and liked the previous cozies featuring
Emily, you’ll want to read Stage Fright
too. If quirky cozies are your thing, this is a good place to start. If you
think I need to find some good alternatives to use instead of the word quirky
over and over again, I’m open for suggestions. The possibilities listed in the thesaurus
are too pedestrian. Not quirky enough.
FYI:
Uses UK spelling conventions.
Format/Typo
Issues:
No significant issues.
Rating: *****
Five Stars
Reviewed
by: BigAl
Approximate
word count: 60-65,000 words
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