THE VANILLA KILLER

 THE VANILLA KILLER

Reviewed By  Janet Mawdesley       December 17, 2024

 

Author  Peter Boland

Distributor:      Amazon UK
ISBN:                 9781835269114
Publisher:         Joffe Books
Release Date:   December 2024  

   Website:   https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DN24LNDM

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The Charity Shop Detective Agency Mysteries Book 4

The Vanilla Killer from Peter Boland is one of those cozy murder that has a certain fan base who love a slow moving, somewhat dysfunctional murder, that sees the killer carefully disguised until the final pages, but one who believes in the Hollywood style reveal! One could almost consider the style of cozy murder slightly tongue-in cheek!

An ice cream seller is murdered and his body is placed in the freezer of his van. He is a young man just starting out in his own business so what was he doing getting himself killed, when he had only been running his own van for a less than a week.

The ladies of the Dogs Need Nice Homes charity shop, Daisy, Partial Sue and Fiona are enjoying their standard brew of tea, when their peace and quiet is disturbed by the off key strains of Greensleeves, and an old, somewhat dilapidated ice-cream van pulls up in front of the shop.

Bella, daisy’s recently divorce daughter has bought the van at auction and is all set to begin her new business. The ladies are horrified, as they immediately recognise the van and know well the tragic history, but agree to support Bella in her new enterprise. On her the first day things begin to go wrong and slowly get worse.

It is then the intrepid ladies begin to think there is more to the damage being done to Bella’s van than is apparent and set out, in their carefully discussed style to try and get to the bottom of what is really going on in the world of Ice-cream sellers.

As they slowly work their way through what seems to be a world of vanilla nothingness, they stumble across someone who, is while not happy to help them, will. That is when they truly realise that what is going on is very carefully orchestrated and undoubtedly very dangerous.

Join the ladies of the Dogs Need Nice Homes charity shop as they set out to catch a criminal as only they can in The Vanilla Killer.

Crime, Fiction, Mystery