When Alice Carroll steps into Curiosity Cottage, a picture-perfect former bric-a-brac shop in the Cotswold Village of Little Pride, she thinks she’s found the perfect place to start the new phase of her life. Freshly separated from her collector long-term boyfriend, she’s excited to embrace her new, minimalist existence.
All
Alice needs to do is sell off the left-behind stock, and settle in. But the
villagers of Little Pride have other ideas, and Alice quickly realises they
won’t give up their beloved shop without a fight.
Then
a dead body is found buried in her neighbour's compost heap, and Alice realises
there’s much more to Little Pride, and its residents, than meets the eye.
My Review:
Death at the Old Curiosity Shop is an amazing first book in the new Cotswold Curiosity Shop Mysteries. Alice Carroll is looking to start over when she breaks up with her boyfriend. A small house in Little Pride is the perfect place for her to make a new life. Little did she know that the song-and-dance she spent on the house included strings that, if the council has their way, cannot be cut or tied up neatly into a bow. She's expected to keep Curiosity Cottage open and run in the traditional way of her predecessor. While figuring out the ways of the shop, a body is discovered next door, tossing Alice into small-town life even further. She becomes one of my new favorite amateur sleuths.
Alice is a fantastic character. She's down on her luck at the beginning of the story, and even after she moves into her new home in Little Pride, but she slowly finds herself reemerging like a phoenix. She embraces small town life, although does question it when the body is found. I enjoyed meeting her, getting to know her, and watching her flourish in her new environment. The mystery is exciting and fresh, the characters quirky and (mostly) loveable, and the scenery well-created. I look forward to more of Alice's adventures.
I was provided a copy of this book.
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Meet the Author:
Debbie
Young is the much-loved author of the Sophie Sayers and St Brides cosy crime
mysteries. She lives in a Cotswold village, where she runs the local literary
festival, and has worked at Westonbirt School, both of which provide
inspiration for her writing
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