There is no such thing as a boring village…

Synopsis

Summer 1952.

The sun is shining, the birds are singing, but Charity Nicholls is bored of her quiet life in a tiny English village where nothing ever happens. Other than her nagging, marriage-obsessed mother, all she has to fill the time are her dreams of becoming a writer, and the Sleuthing Club – the mystery-reading book club she attends every week.

But everything changes the day her father receives a poison pen letter.

With the help of the Sleuthing Club, particularly handsome Henry Taylor, Charity is determined to find the culprit. But when people start dying and the police arrive, led by the infuriating Inspector James Lawrence, her little village becomes a hotbed of crime.

Can Charity find the murderer before anyone else dies?

Perfect for fans of Helena Dixon and T E Kinsey.

My review

In 1952 Charity Nicholls is tired of her boring life in a tiny village when nothing ever happens.

But this all changes when her father receives a poison pen letter. And as Charity is attending every week the Sleuthing Club, she is certain that she will be able to find the writer of such nasty untrue things.

The whole situation deteriorates when people start dying and more poison pen letters appears. Yet Charity is determined to find the culprit and hopes that the help she gets from Henry Taylor will be the start of something more…

If you’re looking for a cosy mystery, with a stubborn young woman like Charity, this is what you need.

Charity wants more from her life, and she hopes to be able to move to London, which is definitely more exciting than the village where she lives now.
She is also in love with Henry Taylor, and she hopes he will notice her…

She is curious and cannot stand injustice… so when her beloved father receives a letter full of lies, she makes it her purpose to find the nasty person who wrote it.
She has a nose for solving crimes, and even manages to be more clever than the police! She is actually the one who notices a death was not a natural cause but actually murder…

What’s going on in the village is a real mystery, as there was no apparent sense in who received letters and why some people were murdered.
I had no clue, so I was happy that Charity was asking herself the same questions I was having. Although I must admit I don’t know if I would be so persistent as she was. I understand the police that sometimes they were fed up with her 😁

A lovely story to read about a curious woman who finds herself suddenly in a more exciting place than thought. Finding out the truth seems to be real venture yet the determination is admirable!