Mystery on Meadowsweet Grove

An Eve Mallow Mystery, Book 12

De: Clare Chase

Narrado por: Ashley Tucker

Saxford St Peter is having an open gardens day! But one of the villagers has murder, not marigolds, in mind… And now Eve Mallow needs to unearth a killer.

Everyone in Saxford is delighted when jeweller Cleo Marbeck suggests a prize for the village’s best garden. Flowers are planted, grass is cut, and the competition is on. But the event only digs up dirt… Twenty-five years ago, a young woman fell to her death in Cleo’s house, and rumours soon resurface about Cleo’s part in the tragedy.

Eve’s best friend Viv is hosting Stevie, her son’s fiancée, ahead of the wedding. On the open garden day, Stevie has a horrible flashback: the memory of a woman lying at the bottom of a staircase. But she sees it in a totally different house from the one where Honor died…

Hours later Cleo’s body is found, drowned in her own pond. Almost everyone in Saxford has been in and out of her garden, sowing suspicion everywhere. But Eve is convinced the flashback has triggered the crime… and when the police turn their sights on Stevie, she’ll have to work fast to solve the case and save the wedding.

So who wanted Cleo in the ground? The son of the woman who died, out for revenge? The employee passed over for promotion? Her long-term lover, who she refused to marry? And why do so many suspects live on Meadowsweet Grove?

When someone else takes a tumble downstairs, Eve knows she’s close to grubbing up the truth. But can she catch the killer or is she heading for a fatal fall?

A completely charming English cozy mystery, perfect for fans of Agatha Christie, Faith Martin and Sarah Yarwood-Lovett.

©2024 Clare Chase (P)2024 Bookouture, an imprint of Storyfire Ltd.

Not impressed this time

There were too many characters introduced way too fast and it was hard to keep up with all the connections. These books are usually great fun but I was disappointed with this one. Also, Americans don’t pronounce the name Anna as Honor. That kept throwing me too.

Disappointing change in narrator

This one was long... too many characters with conflicting paths. Seems like she's writing more twists and turns just to make longer books. It might be that I'm getting bored with the series... But the narrator change was the last bit that puts me off. The narrator was fine... just not Eve and others.

So many characters!

The story, for me, became increasingly complicated and hard to follow. It was read well, but I spent a lot of time trying to figure out characters & their relationships to one another.