Description
Cass Claymore, a red headed, motorbike riding, ex-ballerina inherits a Detective Agency, and accidentally employs an ex-con dwarf and an octogenarian. Hired by a client who should know better, Cass has no leads, no clue and a complete inability to solve a case. Still a girl needs to eat and her highbred client’s offering good money. Join her as, with bungling incompetence, she follows a trail littered with missing antique teddies, hapless crooks, a misplaced Lord of the Realm and dead bodies. Will Cass, and Scotland, survive?
I'm so pleased to be part of the book tour for this book. You can read about who else is on the tour and more about the author below. Together with a link to purchase the book.
Review
The description of the PI in this novel got my attention, as she's a motorbike riding ex ballerina - whose inherited a Detective agency. Great bring it on.
As you will gather from this and the fact that she's employing an ex-con dwarf and an octogenarian not to mention the oversized dog she also inherited, it is all a bit tongue in cheek. There is however detecting to be done and also death, menacing threats and guns, so not that tongue in cheek.
I liked Cass - she takes it all in her stride with sarcasm, childminding and one liners that I wish I had thought up. I wondered would I be able to find out who dunnit before she did? As she hasn't quite graduate from PI school yet, but knows how to use her ballerina moves to her advantage, just like in Red Sparrow. She also has her vertically challenged sidekick Quill, who in my mind I cast as Warwick Davis. He's very entertaining and full of surprises too. I really enjoyed this character in the book.
If you are a fan of Stephanie Plum from the Janet Evanovich novels, well this book will be right up your street. The writing is fast paced and with some Scottish dialect that might slow you down on occasion but it adds to the feel of the book.
I'm giving this book five out of five stars and my thanks to the author and Love Books Group Tours for a review copy of the book. Love the cover too.
Award Winning Author Wendy H. Jones lives in Scotland, and her police procedural series featuring Detective Inspector Shona McKenzie, is set in the beautiful city of Dundee, Scotland. Wendy has led a varied and adventurous life. Her love for adventure led to her joining the Royal Navy to undertake nurse training. After six years in the Navy she joined the Army where she served as an Officer for a further 17 years. This took her all over the world including Europe, the Middle East and the Far East. Much of her spare time is now spent travelling around the UK, and lands much further afield. As well as nursing Wendy also worked for many years in Academia. This led to publication in academic textbooks and journals. Killer's Countdown is her first novel and the first book in the Shona McKenzie Mystery series. Killer's Crew won the Books Go Social Book of the Year 2107. There are now six books in this series with Killer's Crypt being released in August, 2017. The Dagger's Curse is the first book in The Fergus and Flora Mysteries for Young Adults. This book is currently shortlisted for the Woman Alive Magazine Readers Choice Award Book of the Year. She is also a highly successful marketer and she shares her methods in the book, Power Packed Book Marketing.
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