My review:???
Murder in a Country Garden by Betty Rowlands (A Melissa Craig Mystery Book 12) is very obviously a book in a long series as there are call backs to events that happened in previous books that I haven’t read, and so whilst you don’t need to have read these books in order to read this one, you do know you are missing out information.
Melissa is settling down to life with her new husband, and her mother in a newly built part of the cottage. She’s given up her amateur sleuthing ways, or so she says.
When a local man is found dead, stung to death by his own bees, she starts to get curious, and when his widow starts to lean on Melissa, she’s keen to help.
I found this a typical cosy mystery book, but didn’t realise it was meant to be present day for quite a while into the book, with the habits of using a house phone and calling people ‘Mr ….’ and ‘Mrs…..’.
Murder in a Country Garden was published on 8th April 2019 and is available to buy from Amazon, Waterstones and Bookshop.org.
I was given this book in exchange for an unbiased review, and so my thanks to NetGalley and to Bookouture.