About the Book:
With her Curiosity Shop open for business, Alice Carroll is finally settling into life in the picturesque Cotswold village of Little Pride. But then her old life comes knocking… Alice’s ex boyfriend, Steven, who dumped her to travel the world, has run out of money and asks Alice to sell off his collection of chess sets.
Alice decides to host a tournament to showcase the boards, and her plan seems to be working. That is, until chess pieces begin to mysteriously disappear. And when a body is discovered outside the tournament, Alice realises that the victim was a pawn in another, far more dangerous game.
As the host of the event, Alice is eager to help the police investigate. She doesn’t know why anyone would be interested in stealing random chess pieces, let alone willing to kill for them, but she’s determined to find out. Can she solve the case before someone else gets hurt?
Or will this be one gambit too far for Alice?
My Review:
Death at the Village Chess Club is an amazing second book in the Cotswold Curiosity Shop Mysteries. Alice Carroll is still settling into her new life in Little Pride. Her Curiosity Shop is doing well and she's making friends. When her past, in the form of ex-boyfriend Steven, comes calling, she finds herself selling off his collection of chess sets for fast money. It seems Steven's plans have changed and he's running out of funds to support his midlife crisis.
To facilitate the sale of the chess sets, Alice and her friend, Danny contact the local school and plan a chess tournament. The chess sets will be on display and for sale to attendees. Hosting the event goes well until pieces of the games begin disappearing. Then, everything falls apart when a body is found.
Alice is a fantastic character. She has embraced small town life, even with the murders that have taken place. I enjoyed getting to know her even better in Death at the Village Chess Club and watching her flourish in her new environment. Her toleration of Steven does boggle the mind, however. She's a much bigger person than I would have been had my ex tried calling in any favors. He'd be living in a cardboard box in France for all I cared.I was provided with a copy of this book. This does not
affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review. The opinions I have
expressed are my own.
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Meet the Author:
Debbie Young writes warm, witty, feel-good contemporary fiction inspired by life in the English village where she lives with her Scottish husband and their teenage daughter.
Her Sophie Sayers Village Mystery series begins with "Best Murder in Show" and the first seven books run the course of a calendar year in the life of a classic English Cotswold village. Originally intended to be a seven-book series, further books will follow, due to reader demand.
She also writes the romantic comedy mystery series, Staffroom at St Bride's, set in the staffroom of an English girls' boarding school. The series will eventually be six books long, running the course of an academic year, and the first book is "Secrets at St Bride's".
Her books were shortlisted in 2020 and 2021 for The Selfies Award, given to the best self-published adult fiction in the UK.
She also writes short stories and has published three themed collections, "Marry in Haste", "Quick Change", and "Stocking Fillers", and had stories included in many anthologies.
When she's not writing, she does other bookish things, such as speaking or reading her work at literary events, such as Crimefest, the leading international crime writing event, the Cheltenham Literature Festival and the Hawkesbury Upton Literature Festival, the event that she founded for her local community.
She's a member of the Society of Authors and the UK Ambassador for the Alliance of Independent Authors.
She loves reading, bellringing, singing in the local choir, gardening, knitting, sketching and travelling with her family in their camper van. Her many hobbies mean she is never short of ideas for her gentle tales of rural life.
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