Blog Tour & Book Review: THE MUSEUM MURDER by Katie Gayle

  

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THE MUSEUM MURDER

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Katie Gayle

Author: Katie Gayle

Book: The Museum Murder

Series: Epiphany Bloom Mysteries (Book 2)

Publication Day: 31 March 2021 

 

Dastardly deeds, daring deceptions and a dress to die for… Epiphany Bloom is back on the case!

Epiphany ‘Pip’ Bloom, would-be detective and London’s unluckiest woman, finds herself in a real costume drama when she unearths a theft at a fashion museum.

The missing dress is a proper piece of Hollywood history, worth a fortune. And as Pip investigates, she finds the museum staff all had reasons to want the garment gone. From fancy boutiques to sketchy back alleys, Pip discovers the fashion world is not all glitz and glamour as she hunts down her prize.

As if she doesn’t have enough on her plate, Pip also has her growing feelings for her housemate Tim to contend with, a family of cats to feed and her mother keeps phoning about a shipment of llamas arriving any day now from South America.

But there’s no time for distractions because Pip’s not the only one after the dress. And for the most dedicated collectors, a piece like this is worth any price – even murder…

A laugh-out-loud, light-hearted cozy mystery for fans of M.C. Beaton, T.E. Kinsey and Joanne Fluke, that will have you reading late into the night.

Purchase Links

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My Thoughts

She’s back! Come and join Epiphany Bloom on her latest  comedy of errors … erm … adventure in THE MUSEUM MURDER.

We left Pip on a high after her first outing as a trainee private detective (The Kensington Kidnap) but things didn’t go as planned. We find Pip unemployed – again. But she’s got her kittens to play with and a flatmate to ogle, so life could be worse.

Never fear! With the help of sister Flis and some dissembling on her part, Pip is soon working at a vintage fashion and movie memorabilia museum. Stepping over the threshold on the first day, Pip discovers a famous movie dress has been stolen. It’s up to Pip to use her basic – let’s face it, beyond basic – detective skills to figure out where it’s gone. Was it a robbery or an inside job?

You wouldn’t think a sophisticated city like London would be a suitable setting for a cosy mystery, but Katie Gayle has made it work. The mysteries Pip is solving are not complex enough to make your brain hurt, but they are plotted well. Sure, you need to suspend some belief, but the books make for fun entertainment.    

 I like Pip. I like her inner monologues, her approach to her wacky family, her clumsiness and her uncertainty about her relationship status with her flatmate, Tim.

Add it to your list if you’re after an undemanding yet entertaining read.  

Review copy courtesy of Netgalley and Bookouture

About the Authors

Katie Gayle is the writing partnership of best-selling South African writers, Kate Sidley and Gail Schimmel. Kate and Gail have, between them, written over ten books of various genres, but with Katie Gayle, they both make their debut in the cozy mystery genre. Both Gail and Kate live in Johannesburg, with husbands, children, dogs and cats. Unlike their sleuth Epiphany Bloom, neither of them have ever stolen a cat from the vet.

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