A brush with Death

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A Brush With Death by Fiona Leitch -Cozy crime/Mystery         

Jodie Parker is ex police now a caterer and has a nose for crime. She was

called Nosey Parker at school and the moniker has well and truly stuck.

There's an arts festival in town and she comes across Duncan, the guest

artist and her heart takes a flutter, however Duncan is married and there

is more to his wife’s partnership with the gallery owner than first meets

the eye. There are some wonderful dynamics between Jodie and others

in the village. Nathan the DCI and Tony who in the last book was

accused of murder, both of whom she has known since childhood and

enjoys a banter with. When a guest writer is found dead near Duncan’s

rented cottage and he was the last one to see him alive, Jodie can’t

believe that he would have done it, especially when video evidence

shows that more was going on. Who would have killed him and why?

I really enjoy this series- this is the second one but will happily stand

alone. Jodie is someone you could picture as a friend or neighbour

who would well and truly stand in your corner. A wonderful story to

capture the imagination with a smile along the way. Love these and

can't wait for the next one in the series. 

For more reviews please see my blog http://nickibookblog.blogspot.co.uk/

or follow me on Twitter@nickisbookblog



A Brush With Death Jodie ‘Nosey’ Parker is back! When a body turned up at her last catering gig it certainly put people off the hor d'oeuvres. So with a reputation to salvage, Jodie’s determined that her next job for the village’s festival will go without a hitch. But when chaos breaks out, Jodie Parker somehow always finds herself in the picture. The body of a writer from the festival is discovered at the bottom of a cliff, and the prime suspect is the guest of honour, the esteemed painter Duncan Stovall. With her background in the Met police, Jodie has got solving cases down to a fine art and she knows things are rarely as they seem. Can she find the killer before the village faces another brush with death? The second book in the Jodie ‘Nosey’ Parker cosy mystery series. Can be read as a standalone. A humorous cosy mystery with a British female sleuth in a small village. Includes one of Jodie's Tried and Tested Recipes! Written in British English. Mild profanity and peril. Purchase Links UK - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Brush-Death-Nosey-Parker-Mystery-ebook/dp/B08CTX44K5 US - https://www.amazon.com/Brush-Death-Nosey-Parker-Mystery-ebook/dp/B08CTX44K5

Author Bio – Fiona Leitch is a writer with a chequered past. She’s written for football and motoring magazines, DJ’ed at illegal raves and is a stalwart of the low budget TV commercial, even appearing as the Australasian face of a cleaning product called ‘Sod Off’. Her debut novel ‘Dead in Venice’ was published by Audible in 2018 as one of their Crime Grant finalists. After living in London, Hastings and Cornwall she’s finally settled in sunny New Zealand, where she enjoys scaring her cats by trying out dialogue on them. She spends her days dreaming of retiring to a crumbling Venetian palazzo, walking on the windswept beaches of West Auckland, and writing funny, flawed but awesome female characters. Social Media Links – https://www.facebook.com/fiona.leitch.1/ https://twitter.com/fkleitch https://www.instagram.com/leitchfiona/

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