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white_hart) wrote2021-09-06 06:38 pm
white_hart) wrote2021-09-06 06:38 pm
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Reading: Baking Bad (249/365)
Kim M Watt's Baking Bad popped up as a Kindle recommendation a few weeks ago, and given that it was only 99p and a cozy mystery with dragons sounded like the kind of thing I'd enjoy, I thought I'd give it a go.
Baking Bad is set in the village of Toot Hansell, somewhere in the Yorkshire Dales. When the vicar is found dead after eating a poisoned cupcake, suspicion falls on the members of the W.I., and it's up to them and their friends, the ancient dragons of Cloverly, to track down the real murderer before the police decide that they've found their woman and stop looking any further. It's a fluffy, entertainingly daft novel packed full of interestingly drawn female characters, most of them women of a certain age (in particular, the point of view alternates between three of them - Miriam, the hippyish village psychic; Alice, a retired Wing Commander and chair of the WI; and DI Adams, who has relocated from London to Leeds and isn't at all sure about the countryside - along with Mortimer, a young dragon who feels rather put upon by his role as general assistant to Beaufort Scales, the High Lord of the Cloverly dragons), and it was very much the kind of thing I enjoyed.
Baking Bad is set in the village of Toot Hansell, somewhere in the Yorkshire Dales. When the vicar is found dead after eating a poisoned cupcake, suspicion falls on the members of the W.I., and it's up to them and their friends, the ancient dragons of Cloverly, to track down the real murderer before the police decide that they've found their woman and stop looking any further. It's a fluffy, entertainingly daft novel packed full of interestingly drawn female characters, most of them women of a certain age (in particular, the point of view alternates between three of them - Miriam, the hippyish village psychic; Alice, a retired Wing Commander and chair of the WI; and DI Adams, who has relocated from London to Leeds and isn't at all sure about the countryside - along with Mortimer, a young dragon who feels rather put upon by his role as general assistant to Beaufort Scales, the High Lord of the Cloverly dragons), and it was very much the kind of thing I enjoyed.