Reviewed by annieb123 on
A Cornish Christmas Murder is the fourth Nosey Parker mystery by Fiona Leitch. Released 9th Dec 2021 by Harper Collins on their One More Chapter imprint, it's 368 pages and is available in paperback and ebook formats. It's worth noting that the ebook format has a handy interactive table of contents as well as interactive links and references throughout. I've really become enamored of ebooks with interactive formats lately.
This is a very well written, whimsical, and appealing cozy mystery with a caterer as a former-police-inspector protagonist along with her ragtag catering assistants/family and geriatric Pomeranian, Germaine. This installment is a nice closed circle mystery with a group of snowed in guests in an isolated abbey-turned-mansion setting. The mystery is well constructed and the characters are well rendered and believable. It's a cozy, with lots of silly dialogue and was an enjoyable, diverting read.
Although it's the fourth book in the series, all necessary back-story is deftly provided, and the mystery and denouement are self contained and satisfying. There are 5 books extant in the series now, so it would make a good candidate for a weekend binge read. There's a whole subgenre with caterers-as-sleuths and this is one of the better ones.
Four stars.
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.
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