What an enormous pleasure to share my latest My Weekly magazine online review which this time is of Miss Beeton’s Murder Agency by Josie Lloyd. My enormous thanks to Sophie Calder for originally sending me a surprise copy of the book. I’m delighted to review it for My Weekly.
Miss Beeton’s Murder Agency was published by HQ on 24th October 2024 and is available for purchase through the publisher links here.
Miss Beeton’s Murder Agency
Alice Beeton never meant to wind up single and childless on the wrong side of fifty. Like her distant relative Mrs Beeton – yes, that Mrs Beeton – she had hoped to have her own spic-and-span household by now. In reality, she lives in an immaculate but dingy basement flat in a rather shabby block in Kensington with Agatha, her fiercely intelligent, if rather over-territorial, corgi-Jack Russell cross.
Now Alice runs the Good Household Management Agency, providing discreet domestic staff to extravagant townhouses and sprawling country piles. So when Camille Messent calls in urgent need of a new housekeeper, Miss Beeton sends out new hire Enya. She’s rather forward but she does come with impeccable references and is fluent en français.
But in the early hours of New Year’s Day, Alice is rudely awakened with the news that Enya has been found dead. As the intriguing, if somewhat scruffy, Detective Rigby struggles to drum up an adequate investigation and the wealthy family and their party guests close rank, Miss Beeton takes it upon herself to solve the crime…
My Review of Miss Beeton’s Murder Agency
My full review of Miss Beeton’s Murder Agency can be found on the My Weekly website here.
However, here I can say that Miss Beeton’s Murder Agency is a fantastic murder mystery, filled with intrigue, subterfuge and a cast of sparkling characters – as well as some cracking recipes. I thought it was fabulous.
Do visit My Weekly to read my full review here.
About Josie Lloyd
Josie Lloyd, also writing as Joanna Rees, is the Sunday Times No.1 bestselling international author of over twenty novels and has been translated into 27 languages. Come Together, which she co-authored with her husband Emlyn Rees, was number one for 10 weeks and made into a Working Title film. Josie Lloyd recently wrote contemporary women’s fiction novels The Cancer Ladies Running Club and Lifesaving for Beginners, which was a No.1 Bookseller Heatseeker. Miss Beeton’s Murder Agency is her first crime novel.
For further information, visit Sophie’s website, follow her on Twitter/X @JosieLloydbooks and find Sophie on Instagram and Facebook.
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