A Body at the Grand Hotel

 A Body at the Grand Hotel

Reviewed By  Janet Mawdesley       November 16, 2024

 

Author  Benedict Brown

Distributor:      Amazon
ISBN:                 978-1805088202
Publisher:         Storm Publishing
Release Date:   October 2024  

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Benedict Brown certainly knows how to tell a very good story.  A Body at the Grand Hotel is, told in the first person with great aplomb, for want of better words to describe this quirky Murder filled with a cast of people who would not be out of place on the Stage.

Successful author of two Murder Mystery novels Marius Quin, is invited to a Gala evening to be held in his honour at the Grand Hotel in Torquay. All he has to do is to give a speech to the Mystery and Detection Society and answer a few questions.

How hard can this be and as he is suffering for ennui, he decides that a weekend spent on the coast would be a great idea. As it is a rather a splendid Hotel, he invites his family, as well as his long-time friend and business partner, Lady Bella Montague along.

He and Lady Bella have a very successful Private Detective Agency, having assisted Scotland Yard in several of their recent cases. There is an issue on the train on the way to Torquay and it is apparent once they arrive, that something is not quite as it should be; something is simply off!

After a somewhat gruelling evening, Marius goes for a morning swim only to find a body on the floor of the indoor swimming pool and a man fleeing the area. And so begins a larger than life murder mystery that seems to have more perpetrators than make sense, as well as a group of amateur detectives who believe they can solve the murder before either Scotland Yard or the local Police.

A Body at the Grand Hotel is a most intriguing, very tongue-in-cheek, romp through the world of cozy Murders, which will keep every amateur armchair detective trying to solve how so many people could have sound reason to want to commit murder and who really did do it!

A Body at the Grand Hotel is the fourth book in the Marius Quin series with more to come from this very refreshing amateur Detective.

Crime, Fiction, Mystery