TWO ESTRANGED SISTERS. ONE DISAPPEARING BODY.
A witty, cosy mystery packed with twists, turns and tea!
When her flamboyant and spirited half-sister, Frankie, returns to Little Clarsden to claim her share of Rose Cottage, left to them by their Aunt Lucy, she is met with a frosty reception from Julia, who still harbours an old grievance. In an attempt to mend their fractured relationship, the sisters attend a murder mystery weekend at the grand country house of the Medfield estate in the rolling hills of Somerset.
After the first evening’s supper, a “poisoned dart” “kills” one of the guests. In the classic whodunit style of a country house mystery, the game of tracking down the “killer” is afoot.
The playful intrigue takes a sinister turn when the sisters discover a real body hidden in a secret passage. When the body disappears before anyone else can see it, no one believes it ever existed.
As night falls, dark clouds are massing like a cloak of a thousand ravens. A fierce storm leaves the guests trapped in the mansion. With fallen trees and debris rendering the guest’s escape impossible, the killer strikes again.This time, everyone believes the sisters.
With the body count rising and two murders to solve, our sharp-witted, sleuthing sisters set aside their differences, determined to unravel the tangled clues of the murder mystery, track down the real killer, and uncover the truth.
Amid the glamour and intrigue of the other guests and the actors slipping in and out of character, it’s difficult to distinguish between fact and fiction. Nothing and no one is as they seem.
As the sisters get closer to the truth, someone wants them silenced—permanently. With laugh-out-loud banter, a hint of danger, and a twist even Agatha Christie would admire, can Julia and Frankie catch the culprit before the murder weekend becomes their last.
With witty and charming characters and a plot with more twists and turns than a country road, More Than Murder is a delightful blend of humour, mystery and the classic country house crime, perfect for fans of Richard Osman, M.C. Beaton and Benjamin Stevenson.
More Than Murder is the first book in this cosy crime series.
More Than Murder is a fun cosy mystery that I really enjoyed. It is the first book in a new cosy crime series featuring two estranged sisters so I'm intrigued to see what Jayne Chard has in store for Julia and Frankie next.
Julia is hoping that her sister Frankie will never return to the quaint village of Little Clarsden so that she will inherit her aunt's cottage by default. Unfortunately for Julia, Frankie turns up like the proverbial bad penny to claim her share of Rose Cottage. As the sisters attempt to get along as best they can, they are helped by Frankie winning a ticket for two to a murder mystery weekend. Their relationship begins to repair ever so slowly when they have to work together to identify a killer who turns out to be more real than the murder mystery weekend organisers had planned.
I loved the murder mystery weekend setting and with a lot of the characters being actors it's never been more true to say that some people aren't who they seem. I enjoyed following the clues with Julia and Frankie and the competitiveness between them and the other participants was very amusing.
It remains to be seen whether the sisters can live together and share Rose Cottage so I am interested to see where the series is going next. If I was one of the sisters, I would be worried that the next book was going to be called 'Murder in Rose Cottage'.
Witty, charming and twisty, More Than Murder is a great start to an intriguing new cosy mystery series and I can't wait to read more.
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