Perils in Yorkshire (British Book Tour Mysteries)
Cozy Mystery
3rd in Series
Publisher : Camel Press (October 12, 2021)
Paperback : 294 pages
Synopsis
Claire Barclays tourists are exploring the cobbled streets of York. Her American ladies from Tucson, the couple from Bristol, and the couple from London appear fascinated by Claire’s explanations of the unique architecture. All except Philip, a younger, single man who disappears—again. Claire spots him entering the chocolate Factory and races down the stairs, suspecting Phillip has headed for the kitchens and trips over the body of a security guard. She doesn’t see any connection between the body and tourists until Mark, her loving partner, and a detective inspector with the Major Crimes Investigation Team tells her Philip is an undercover Scotland Yard detective and on a job. Claire removes the group from the city of York quickly and drives them north to the Yorkshire Moors, a vast land of almost bleak wilderness and the setting of many mystery novels. She stops for a picnic at the famous Ralph’s Cross where moorland, green with springtime heather, stretches for miles. Her bucolic plans are interrupted when her American ladies report the sudden death of Philip in the surrounding bog. Mark tells her Philip was on the trail of a drug distribution team. But will Claire be able to keep these ladies who are intelligent, determined, and expert mystery readers out of a messy situation with a murderer? Claire has high hopes that she will be able to do so without endangering them all.
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Character Guest Post
Today we welcome Evelyn Roberts to StoreyBook Reviews and she gives us some insight into herself and her friends. Welcome!
Character Evelyn Roberts
I am a realtor from Tucson Arizona, not retired yet, although my son who works for me probably wishes I would. I came with my two friends Norma and Geraldine to join Claire Barclay’s Mystery Book Tour of Britain. We chose the Yorkshire area so we could see the moors and the dales. So far, it has been both interesting in terms of tour guiding and fascinating in terms of mystery. We didn’t expect to stumble across a body on our tour. At first, when I saw the body, I thought that it was a staged event but when the emergency vehicles and police came it was all too evident that this was a crime—well, murder, actually. I’d rather read about it than have it quite so close to me. But since it was in our purview, Geraldine, Norma, and I thought we could put our minds to it and see if we could help the police solve the murder. We are intelligent women of great collective experience and vast knowledge of mystery plots, after all.
You wouldn’t think Norma would be much help. She’s been my friend for almost fifty years—all of us are getting on a bit. She’s flaky and appears to be distracted most of the time. She’s is a retired kindergarten teacher but she’s intuitive about people’s feelings—something that goes past me without recognition. I depend on Norma to tell me how others are feeling. She’s also entertaining. Geraldine is a retired high school teacher and there isn’t much she doesn’t know about people. She’s more reliable than Norma. We constantly lose Norma who couldn’t find her way down a city block without help.
All of us like Claire and her detective inspector friend. They’re lovely pair and deserve to have some time alone and away from troubles. They both seem the type that is committed to a higher ideal justice which is very inconvenient for a relaxed life. I haven’t been troubled by that very much, but I find myself being pulled by Geraldine and Norma into trying to help Claire and Mark. I was willing to report what I observed, to talk things over with Geraldine and Norma in order to find out who was behind the murder, and to let Claire and Mark know everything we found out. I didn’t anticipate I’d put myself in danger.
I quite like Evelyn and her biting observations. Her friends are intelligent and intrepid and they kept me entertained through the writing of Perils in Yorkshire.
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About the Author
Emma Dakin lives in Gibsons on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia. She has over twenty-five trade published books of mystery and adventure for teens and middle-grade children and non-fiction for teens and adults. Her love of the British countryside and villages and her addiction to cozy mysteries now keep her writing about characters who live and work in those villages. She introduces readers to the problems that disturb that idyllic setting.
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