The note pinned to the teddy bear lying at the foot of the church tower could have been a joke – if it hadn’t been for the body on the path next to it!
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About the Book
Murder on High
The Much Winchmoor Mysteries Book Four
by Paula Williams
Published 16 December 2021
Darkstroke Books
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Page Count: 221
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“Remember, abseiling is only the second fastest way down a church tower.”
The note pinned to the teddy bear lying at the foot of the church tower could have been a joke – if it hadn’t been for the body on the path next to it!
Somebody wants to make very sure that everyone knows this was not an accident or suicide. But why?
Suddenly, no one in the village has any enthusiasm for the Teddy Bear Abseil, planned to raise money for the children’s play area, as, once again, a murderer walks the narrow, twisty streets of the small Somerset village of Much Winchmoor.
And, once again, Kat Latcham, reporter/dog walker/barmaid and occasional reluctant hair salon gopher, finds herself unwillingly dragged into a murder investigation.
This fourth Much Winchmoor mystery is spiked with humour and sprinkled with romance.
And, of course, one carefully planned, coldly executed murder.
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My Review
My Rating: 4 Stars
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I was granted complimentary access to Murder on High by Paula Williams as part of my participation in a blog tour for this title with Rachel’s Random Resources. Thank you to all involved in affording me this opportunity! My thoughts are my own and my review is honest.
Kat Latcham, a reporter, has a less-than-smooth life in the little town of Much Winchmoor. Working three jobs and facing threats of replacement, Kat’s life can’t get any harder, right? Wrong. Her unwanted replacement just took photos of a body found near the church, and the murder is about to be all Kat’s problem.
I haven’t read the previous Much Winchmoor Mysteries books but I enjoyed this one nonetheless. True to the cozy mystery genre, this one is an easy, fun read, and although I’m sure there are little tidbits about characters I missed having not read their previous three adventures, I enjoyed this book as a standalone without feeling lost at all.
So many of the characters in this book are delightfully witty! I really had fun reading all of the dialogues and other interactions between characters. I didn’t predict the solution to the mystery as I frequently do in the cozy titles, but I honestly don’t know if it genuinely surprised me or if I was just having too much fun enjoying the characters to pay due attention to the minor plot details. Either way, the climax was very entertaining and satisfying.
If you like small-town cozy mysteries then you absolutely need to check out this book (and probably the rest of the series) right away!
About the Author
Paula Williams is living her dream. She’s written all her life – her earliest efforts involved blackmailing her unfortunate younger brothers into appearing in her plays and pageants. But it’s only in recent years that she discovered, to her surprise, that people with better judgement than her brothers actually liked what she wrote and were prepared to pay her for it.
Now, she writes every day in a lovely, book-lined study in her home in Somerset, UK, where she lives with her husband and a handsome but not always obedient rescue dog, a Dalmatian called Duke. She is very proud to be a member of both the UK Romantic Novelists’ Association and the Crime Writers’ Association.
Her Much Winchmoor Mysteries are based in a small Somerset village which bears in uncanny resemblance to her own – although none of her friends and neighbours have murderous tendencies – as far as she knows! Her novels often feature a murder or two, a dog and cat or two and are always spiked with humour and sprinkled with a touch of romance.
Paula is, indeed, living her dream. But she worries that one day she’s going to wake up and find she still has to bully her brothers into performing ‘the play what she wrote’.
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Thank you so much for this lovely review. I am so pleased you enjoyed Murder on High and delighted that you said it worked well as a stand alone as I hoped it would. Many thanks.