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MURDER ON SEA a gripping cozy crime mystery full of twists (Rina Martin Murder Mystery Book 1)

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Joanna Yeates, an architect, was inside her flat in Bristol before Vincent Tabak, a neighbour, entered and strangled her.

Murder on Sea by Jane A. Adams is the first book in the new Rina Martin Mystery series and I really enjoyed it. I found this book very enjoyable and hard to put down once I started to read it (and then forgot to do a review for it Sorry) Murder on Sea had lots of great twists and turns throughout and the killer took me by surprise. The characters were interesting and played their parts well in this book If you love Agatha Christie, Jeanne M. Dams, The Thursday Murder Club , Glenda Young, Stella Cameron, Frances Evesham or Ann Cleeves, prepare to be hooked by this enchanting character-driven mystery!Detective Constable Karen Thomas, sensed something wasn't right when she met Tabak in Holland to get a statement. We are then introduced to a whole delightful cast of warm loveable characters, there is Rina Martin, the retired actress who played a TV detective and Tim the magician/mentalist depending on his audience. There are the two young boys, George and Paul who have never really fitted in at school and in trying to change that suffer the drastic consequences. He admitted to officers while on the platform that he had just killed his wife. Detectives were able to question him and subsequently charge him with murder.

Following this incident, Broadway had challenged Mr Isaacs's son, Barry, to a fist fight, but instead John Broadway summoned his brother to fetch a shotgun.Scandi noir meets the English seaside in Whitstable Pearl, a murder mystery series based on Julie Wassmer’s novels…’ Drama Quarterly Reading this made me feel happy as I love the author and I love Whitstable, it was also good to catch up on what the characters of Pearl, Dolly and DCI Mike McGuire had been up to. These characters are great, so down to earth and normal and I think that is why it works as you can relate to a lot of it, well apart from the murders, lol. My only real issues with the book are caused by confusion and personal preference. I'm not sure if it's supposed to be a cozy, as the description states, or a police procedural. Rina Martin, who the series is named for, doesn't do any investigating of, or solving, of a murder. She's introduced at the beginning of the book, appears a couple/few times throughout, then again at the end. Mac, the detective, goes through the procedures of a murder investigation: collecting evidence and speaking to potential witnesses, but neither is used to solve anything. We learn of the murder(s) as the story unfolds, told by the killer or someone who was present while the murder was committed. It is not a "who-done-it" This is where my personal preference comes in. I like trying to figure out who committed the crime by being presented with the evidence. Police procedurals are my favorite genre, but I enjoy a good cozy if it is well written and the (usually) female lead character doesn't do stupid things.

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