When home carer Natalka finds Peggy Smith dead in her chair, it looks like death from natural causes, but Natalka has her doubts, particularly when she finds a business card describing Peggy as a “Murder Consultant”.
DS Harbinder Kaur, Best Gay Sikh Detective in West Sussex (it’s a small field, probably of one) finds herself involved in the case, along with ex-monk Benedict and retired BBC producer Edwin, as they investigate mysterious goings on in the world of crime writing.
I knew I was going to love this book from the first page - it was right up my street. It’s the second in a series featuring Harbinder Kaur, and I haven’t read the first, but I don’t think this was a hindrance. I’ll definitely need to read it, though.
(I live in Aberdeen, so it was also hard to resist a story partly set there - and I’ve attended events at the Granite Noir crime writing festival, too, which the one here resembles.)
Lovely read, thoroughly enjoyed it.
