Blog Tour & Review | Murder On The Menu by Fiona Leitch

I was sent  a copy of the book for review. All thoughts and opinions are my own. This post contains affiliate links.

Today is my stop on the blog tour for Murder on the Menu – please do check out the other stops on the tour. Thanks go to Rachel’s Random Resources and the author for allowing me to be a part of this tour.

About The Book

The first book in a NEW cosy mystery series!

Still spinning from the hustle and bustle of city life, Jodie ‘Nosey’ Parker is glad to be back in the Cornish village she calls home. Having quit the Met Police in search of something less dangerous, the change of pace means she can finally start her dream catering company and raise her daughter, Daisy, somewhere safer.

But there’s nothing like having your first job back at home to be catering an ex-boyfriend’s wedding to remind you of just how small your village is. And when the bride, Cheryl, vanishes Jodie is drawn into the investigation, realising that life in the countryside might not be as quaint as she remembers…

With a missing bride on their hands, there is murder and mayhem around every corner but surely saving the day will be a piece of cake for this not-so-amateur sleuth?

The first book in the Murder on the Menu cosy mystery series. Can be read as a standalone. A humorous cosy mystery with a British female sleuth in a small village. Includes one of Jodie’s Tried and Tested Recipes! Written in British English. Mild profanity and peril.

My Review

This was a wonderful introduction to a new series. Having previously read one of the authors books, I couldn’t wait to see what this book had to offer.

The main character, Jodie Parker, known as ‘Nosey’, has finally quit the Met Police and moved back home to the Cornish village she lived in as a child. Her new job? Caterer! It is a chance encounter with an old school friend that sees her suddenly catering for a massive wedding – and at very short notice too!

When the inevitable happens and murder occurs, can Jodie stop herself from investigating? Of course she can’t! I loved the character of Jodie and loved both her mum and her daughter too. She truly was like a dog with a bone when she got going and she managed to discover things that even the police had missed, much to the investigating officer’s chagrin (who just so happened to be quite handsome!).

I was quite shocked by the ending – I had worked out part of it but the rest of it had me sat open-mouthed. I can’t wait to check out the rest of the series.

About The Author

Fiona Leitch is a writer with a chequered past. She’s written for football and motoring magazines, DJ’ed at illegal raves and is a stalwart of the low budget TV commercial, even appearing as the Australasian face of a cleaning product called ‘Sod Off’. Her debut novel ‘Dead in Venice’ was published by Audible in 2018 as one of their Crime Grant finalists. After living in London, Hastings and Cornwall she’s finally settled in sunny New Zealand, where she enjoys scaring her cats by trying out dialogue on them. She spends her days dreaming of retiring to a crumbling Venetian palazzo, walking on the windswept beaches of West Auckland, and writing funny, flawed but awesome female characters.

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