When a murder is way too close to home…

Synopsis

Cozy Craft Mysteries can be read in any order. A funny whodunnit series, full of charming characters and mysteries that will keep you guessing to the very end.

Things are going great for Penny Slipper. Running a sewing shop in the middle of the English countryside is like a dream come true and she’s got her colourful cousin Izzy and her corgi, Monty, to keep her entertained.

Her grandma’s eightieth birthday is coming up soon and Penny and Izzy are busier than ever, making fancy dress costumes for the party guests.

However, Penny’s dream life is thrown into chaos when a murdered woman is found in the bathroom of her cosy flat above the shop. With the doors and the windows all locked, no one can understand how this mystery corpse got there.

But things take a further sinister turn when a local shopkeeper is also killed. There’s a murderer on the loose and no one is safe!

Can Penny and Izzy uncover the answers and unmask the criminal in their midst?

If your ideal book features mystery, friendship, cute romance, even cuter animals, crafting and a big slice of birthday cake then this is the book for you.

My review

Penny and Izzy are slowly turning their sewing shop into success. And there is even an extra resident, Monty the corgi.
With their grandma’s eightieth birthday, the cousins are busier than ever, as the party guests are expected to turn up in costumes.
But things turn quickly into chaos, as Penny finds a murdered woman in the bathroom of her flat, above the shop. With all the doors and windows locked, how did the woman get in there? And how did the murderer get away?
To make things even worse, a local shopkeeper is killed too… are the murders connected? And why?
Time for the cousins to investigate this matter on their own ways! 

This series for sure is growing on me! While I enjoyed the first book, I liked the second one and now I am loving the third one!
Taking the murders aside, I loved reading how things are slowing coming together and it was truly lovely to see how the cousins have been bonding through the series and have become very close. 

I can only try to imagine the horror of discovering a body in your bathroom, and not even understand how it could all been happening.
Isn’t it a creepy thought, knowing someone got in and you have no idea how it happened?
I could also understand Penny, not wanting to stay at the place. And seeing how Izzy came at the rescue, offering support in her unique ways, surely was very sweet. But let’s be honest, did we truly expect anything else from this creative yet a bit strange woman? 

This new cozy murder mystery is a bit different than the previous stories, as this time the cousins are involved with it. It happened at Penny’s house, while the previous murders were yes somehow linked to them, yet it never truly affected them as much as this one.
And maybe, just maybe, in my modest opinion of course, the motive was a tiny bit farfetched, but not at a point that it bothered me. It still allowed me to go with the flow! 

Of course I am still amazed by the sewing abilities of Izzy, and loved reading about Penny’s progress. And it was lovely to see how Izzy is having her own romantic moments, in her typical (un)usual ways! On the other hand, things with Penny are not as clear as I hoped it would, but the series is obviously not finished yet and I have my fingers crossed that in the end, my favourite one will be the one stealing Penny’s heart! 

As I said before, this series is truly growing on my and I have had the best of time on this new murder mystery! Again it was a story that kept me guessing who the murderer was, and despite all the dead bodies appearing here and there, it was a light, quick funny story too! Up to the next one! 😊