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Today I am on the blog tour for Murder On High by Paula Williams. Thanks go to Rachel’s Random Resources and the author for allowing me to be a part of this tour. Please do check out the other stops.
About The Book
Remember, abseiling is only the second fastest way down a church tower.’
The note pinned to the teddy bear lying at the foot of the church tower could have been a joke – if it hadn’t been for the body on the path next to it!
Somebody wants to make very sure that everyone knows this was not an accident or suicide. But why?
Suddenly, no one in the village has any enthusiasm for the Teddy Bear Abseil, planned to raise money for the children’s play area, as, once again, a murderer walks the narrow, twisty streets of the small Somerset village of Much Winchmoor.
And, once again, Kat Latcham, reporter/dog walker/barmaid and occasional reluctant hair salon gopher, finds herself unwillingly dragged into a murder investigation.
This fourth Much Winchmoor mystery is spiked with humour and sprinkled with romance.
And, of course, one carefully planned, coldly executed murder.
My Review
You know how much I love a good mystery and how I especially love reading the work of new (to me!) writers. The quote on the cover really interested me as I am a big fan of the Agatha Raisin books so I was hoping I wouldn’t be disappointed. Thankfully I wasn’t. It is important to note that Kat Latcham is her own person and the only similarities are detecting in a small village.
This was a really easy and enjoyable read and was great to read as a standalone (as this was my first introduction to the author) or as part of a series like it is! I really liked the character of Kat and I loved the village setting. Coming from a village myself, I know what one can be like and whilst I can say there has never been a murder to investigate, I can totally identify some characters in Much Winchmoor with people I know in real life.
I will certainly be reading more in the series as I really enjoyed this book.
About The Author
Paula Williams is living her dream. She’s written all her life – her earliest efforts involved blackmailing her unfortunate younger brothers into appearing in her plays and pageants. But it’s only in recent years that she discovered, to her surprise, that people with better judgement than her brothers actually liked what she wrote and were prepared to pay her for it.
Now, she writes every day in a lovely, book-lined study in her home in Somerset, UK, where she lives with her husband and a handsome but not always obedient rescue dog, a Dalmatian called Duke. She is very proud to be a member of both the UK Romantic Novelists’ Association and the Crime Writers’ Association.
Her Much Winchmoor Mysteries are based in a small Somerset village which bears in uncanny resemblance to her own – although none of her friends and neighbours have murderous tendencies – as far as she knows! Her novels often feature a murder or two, a dog and cat or two and are always spiked with humour and sprinkled with a touch of romance.
Paula is, indeed, living her dream. But she worries that one day she’s going to wake up and find she still has to bully her brothers into performing ‘the play what she wrote’.
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I enjoy reading murder mysteries when I want a little excitement hence I can’t wait to get a copy of this book as it sounds like a good read
I love a good murder mystery too! This sounds like a really good read and I’ll add it to my list, thank you!
I like being exposed to new authors, Paula sounds like she really has a passion for writing. Murder mysteries are my favourite, it’s like reading an episode of Columbo for me lol.
I want to try reading more books outside of my comfort zone and a murder mystery style seems like a good place to start. Sounds like a good one x
Thank you so much for this. I’m really happy you enjoyed Murder on High and hope you go on to enjoy the rest of the series.
I will have to look for this book, sounds fun.
I would like to read this book, it sounds like it’s not just interesting but entertaining as well. I do like murder mystery books.
Each time I read one of your reviews I think to myself, I must give the mystery genre a go. This sounds like a good read and a bit of suspense is never a bad thing.