#Review Murder By Christmas by Lesley Cookman
Murder by Christmas
The twisting twenty-fifth instalment of Lesley Cookman’s much-loved Libby Sarjeant series
Libby Sarjeant is deep into rehearsals for the annual pantomime when a body is found in a doorway two weeks before Christmas – and Libby and her friend Fran are called into action once again, when their investigation leads them to a local brewery and the sale of many of its pubs.
With the help of a team of local publicans, can Libby and Fran unravel the case before it’s too late?
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Author Bio –
Lesley started writing almost as soon as she could read, and filled many Woolworth’s
exercise books with pony stories until she was old enough to go out with boys. Since she’s been
grown up, following a varied career as a model, air stewardess and disc jockey, she’s written short fiction and features for a variety of magazines, achieved an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Wales, taught writing for both Kent Adult Education and the WEA and edited the first Sexy Shorts collection of short stories, in aid of the Breast Cancer Campaign. Lesley is a member of the Society of Authors and the Crime Writers’ Association.
Lesley has also written pantomimes performed all over Britain, and published a book on how to do it!
Learn more about Lesley by visiting her blog.
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REVIEW
This is book 25 in the series and only the second book I had read so far but I already feel that I know the many established characters already. At the start we are greeted with a list of characters, which are many, so it helped me keep track of who is who.
We are back in steeple Martin and Libby is in the midst of getting the pantomime rehearsals underway when a body is found, not but her I might add, but she and Fran decide to get involved in finding out just why the member of a prominent Brewery family winds up dead weeks before Christmas. Interviewing publicans they begin to pace the puzzle together, which leads them down a many winding road until all is revealed.
This series gives me ‘Midsomer Murders’ meet ‘Murder She Wrote’ vibes and I loved the setting of Steeple Martin and I’m totally jealous Libby lives on Alls Hallows Lane. Can’t wait to read more in the series.
