Cotswold Mysteries: A Cotswold Killing (Series #1) (Paperback)

from reading_fox

Rather fun almost cosy little mystery. Not exactly belivable, but nothing particularly intrudes to shake the necessary suspension of scepticsm. Thea - a widow of a year and just about coping with life - and her dog, take a job housesitting for a couple departing for a couple of weeks cruise. The ...

from cathyskye

First Line: The pain in Thea's finger was intermittent, but sharp. Recently widowed Thea Osborne has decided to house-sit, and Brook View Farm outside the picture perfect village of Duntisbourne Abbots in the Cotswolds looks ideal. Thea's only worry is that spending three weeks there with the own...

from Condorena

I looked forward to reading this book because the setting sounded interesting. The setting was interesting but the story wasn't. Our lonely depressed heroine Thea meets a man five minutes after she begins to settle down in the house she is house sitting. He is dead before morning and after rehash...

from nocto

Enjoyable stuff as always from Rebecca Tope. Commendable because it's in many ways got a typical 'cosy' mystery setup (newly widowed housesitter stumbles into murder investigation in pretty village) but managed to never make me scream 'no, don't go down the dark staircase to the cellar alone with...

from smik

At times this book felt hard going and I sometimes became annoyed what seemed to be a welter of detail that slowed the action down. Thea Osborne uses her husband's death as an excuse to embark on a new occupation of house-sitting. The three week job in a house in the village of Duntisbourne Abbot...