A Death at Neptune Cove

A Jemima Jago Mystery, Book 4

By: Emma Jameson

Narrated by: Tamsin Kennard

Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins

Publisher's summary

A birthday beach party gone wrong, buried treasure, and...a dead body? This might be Jemima Jago’s most baffling case yet!

When Jem knocked on the door of an isolated cottage overlooking the beautiful Neptune Cove, she was hoping for help fixing a birthday cake baking disaster. She was not expecting to find the tenant dead on the tiled floor, specks of blood on the collar of his navy and red satin pajamas....

The victim is Arthur Ajax, a handsome and wealthy American businessman who arrived in the Isles of Scilly as a tourist 10 months ago and never left. There have been rumors about him in town—he was known for his extravagant lifestyle—perhaps he’d gone overboard; could his death be connected to an unpaid debt?

Later that same evening, Jem stumbles across a hoard of buried jewelry, dug up from the dunes by little dog Buck, and she immediately wonders if they could be connected to the rich man’s murder. It’s not every day you find expensive—and very real-looking—sapphire earrings stashed away in an antique biscuit tin!

Jem seeks help from local jewelry expert to identify the gems. But when he suddenly goes missing, Jem knows someone is trying to cover their tracks. Can she catch the killer before he makes her walk the plank, too?

Fans of M.C. Beaton, Faith Martin, and Agatha Christie will be hooked by A Death at Neptune Cove.

©2022 Emma Jameson (P)2022 Bookouture, an imprint of Storyfire Ltd.

Even better than the last one!

AA, amateur-sleuth, Cornwall, cosy-mystery, friendship, identity-theft, island-life, Isles-of-Scilly, jewel-thief, law-enforcement, librarian, murder, murder-investigation, read, relationship-issues, relationships, situational-humor, sly-humor, small-town, verbal-humor*****
Citizen Snoop aka Scilly Sleuths.
Welcome to the Isles Of Scilly. Accessible only by water (or helicopter) are an archipelago off the south westernmost coast of Cornwall.
This is fourth in a fun series about a librarian/amateur sleuth and the good friends who work together with he to find justice instead of the most convenient answer. The obvious villain is the DCI of Devon/Cornwall who always puts himself first and goes out of his way to make things difficult for Jemma and the local constabulary. But finding out who is the villain who murdered a summer person with some unsavory habits is the real mystery. Great addictive read!
Tamsin Kennard is a fun voice actress who really adds really good things to the story/characters.

Exciting new series.

I’ve enjoyed all of the first installments in this series. Fans of the Agatha Raisin series will enjoy this more contemporary series as well.

5 Stars

This is a well written and entertaining cozy mystery. I look forward to the next book.

Enjoyable Read!

I’ve been loving this series, excited to listen to the next one. Hopefully the series keeps going.

written as if an agenda was more than a storyline!

really enjoyed the first three bucks in the series. very much about murder, mystery and old murder mystery cliches reference to lot of older books and characters that just made it a lot of fun. however, this last book was clearly written with a agenda at the foremost and the story was secondary. being a murder mystery it got extremely confusing and convoluted which was even admitted to at one point. if you can make it to the last few chapters you'll feel and see the true murder mystery come together, be flushed out and brought to the surface...

Very good narrator

The narrator saved this rather luke warm story line, made it an ok listen.
Not the best of Emma Jameson’s works.

My last one of the series

At the beginning of the book, I was tired of the unbelievable characters. I suspect it is because of the modern setting as opposed to a past time.

As the book went on, I was appalled at the portrayal of the victim and how the men in his life accepted his behavior. If the same behavior was directed at women there would have been outrage. I suspect the author was trying to show that gay relationships are the same as heterosexual relationships. Instead, it comes across as very anti-male. I can’t believe she would write the same story with a lesbian murder victim.