Hello
darlings!
This was the first summer in ages I didn’t read more than a handful of
books. I mean I always read more than ten books during my vacation but having a
toddler and being sleep deprived, left me with few options. I was able to read
a few chapters from a great attachment parenting book I will talk more about in
the future, but most of my reading was done on my kindle, because y’all know by
now I love eBooks!
One of the books I got to read was Murder and the Glovemakers Son by Lesley Cookman.
What’s the book about
This is the nineteenth
book in a series of Libby Sarjeant mysteries.
This time, Libby has
found herself in a tough spot trying to help the Oast Theatre in Steeple Martin
host a touring production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. The play is
attracting a lot of attention. But very soon it begins to attract attention of
an entirely different kind, when a document goes missing along with its owner.
When a body turns up, Libby Sarjeant and Fran Wolfe become involved with the
investigation with the help, naturally, of their friends and relatives.
What I think of the book
I love books with strong
female characters like I’ve said in the past. I liked Libby’s character and the
way she handled herself in various situations. I also liked the friendly
atmosphere depicted in the book. I wasn’t raised in a village but I am familiar
with the close relationships found in one. Everybody knows everyone and
everyone helps out when need be.
This was the first book
of Lesley’s I’ve ever read and that would be the one culprit for the fact I
found the book to be a bit slow going. I found myself often scrolling to the
first pages when there is a (very helpful indeed) glossary of the characters in
the book. For those who’ve read the past instalments of this series it would be
a breeze, but I did struggle a bit to remember who is who (again I blame my
sleep deprived sluggish brain for that, lol).
All in all this is an
enjoyable book for the genre fans!
Author’s Bio
Lesley started writing
almost as soon as she could read, and filled many Woolworth's exercise books
with pony stories until she was old enough to go out with boys. Since she's
been grown up, following a varied career as a model, air stewardess, actor and
disc jockey, she's written short fiction and features for a variety of
magazines, achieved an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Wales,
taught writing for both Kent Adult Education and the WEA and edited the first
Sexy Shorts collection of short stories from Accent Press in aid of the Breast
Cancer Campaign. The Libby Sarjeant series is published by Accent Press, who
also publish her book, How to Write a Pantomime, with a foreword by Roy Hudd.
She is also the author of several pantomimes and a Music Hall musical, and more
recently an Edwardian mystery series, The Alexandrians, also from Accent Press.
She has also written romances under the name Rosina Lesley. She has four grown
up children, two cats and lives on the Kent
coast of England
There is going to be a launch party
for this book, more info can be found here.
What are
you reading this summer?
Lots of love
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