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Mystery by the Sea by Verity Bright - Bookouture Blog Tour

3/14/2021

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About the author(s):
Verity Bright is the pseudonym for a husband-and-wife writing partnership that has spanned a quarter of a century. Starting out writing high-end travel articles and books, they published everything from self-improvement to humor, before embarking on their first historical mystery. They are the authors of the fabulous Lady Eleanor Swift Mystery series, set in the 1920s.
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Description:
​A magnificent seaside hotel, striped deckchairs, strawberry ice cream… and a rather familiar dead body? Lady Swift is on the case!

Spring, 1921. Lady Eleanor Swift, explorer extraordinaire and accidental sleuth, hasn’t had a vacation since she arrived in England a year ago. Being an amateur detective can be a rather tiring business and she is determined to escape any more murder and mysteries. So she books into the Grand Hotel in the fashionable resort of Brighton for some fresh air, fish and chips and, of course, a dip in the ocean.

Eleanor is enjoying her view of the waves and trying to find her bathing suit when calamity strikes: a guest has been found dead at her beautiful hotel. The distraught manager, who can’t afford a scandal, asks Eleanor to solve the case as swiftly as possible. Thank goodness she has her partner in crime – Gladstone the bulldog – to help her sniff out the dastardly culprit.

But when Eleanor enters the dead man’s room, she receives a shock big enough to make her forget even the finest ice cream sundae. The body is that of her husband, who supposedly died six years ago on the other side of the world. Has he been alive all these years? Why does he have a copy of their wedding photograph with a cryptic message written on the back? If Eleanor can keep herself safe long enough to find her husband’s killer, she might discover that everything is not quite as it seems beside the seaside…

A warm and witty whodunnit! Fans of Agatha Christie, T E Kinsey and L.B. Hathaway will be utterly charmed by this addictive and absolutely gripping page-turner.
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My thoughts
Aaaaaahhh, they did it again!!!!!! Verity Bright's latest cozy mystery "Mystery by the Sea" is book 5 in the series and--just like the other books in the series--didn't disappoint! I had a blast being a little fly on the wall watching Lady Eleanor and her loyal butler Clifford solve another mystery. This time, the case hits closer to home than Lady Eleanor had expected. The murder victim is her own husband who she thought was dead. Well, now he is for sure...but for the last six years, he had been very much alive. A witty, fierce, yet charming Lady E combined with a wonderful portrayal of 1920s Brighton made this a super fun read. Escapism at its finest!!! Lady E is definitely a younger version of Miss Marple. So, if you like Agatha Christie, I am willing to bet everything I have that you will like this series! To me, it feels like butler Clifford is to Lady E what Dr. Watson is to Sherlock Holmes. He is so charmingly British and just as loyal to Eleanor as Dr. Watson is to Sherlock. The only thing I was missing a bit in this book was the sweet relationship Lady E has with Detective Seldon. He did appear in this book, but was more of a supporting character. I love their dynamic and I was sad that I didn't get to read more dialogue between the two. However, Clifford was definitely a wonderful sidekick in book 5. I can't wait to see what other adventures these two will go on.
There is one thing that really made me swoon...Lady E is not only a lady who defies convention at home in England, she is also a well-traveled archaeologist. Since I'm someone who always wanted to be one and who eats up every documentary about archeology and mummification and being a little rebel myself, Lady E is a girl after my own heart. Now on to your next adventure, Lady E...we need you to solve a lot more cases!
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​Product details:
  • ​Pages (ebook): 307
  • Publisher: Bookouture (March 11, 2021)
  • Language: English
  • ISBM (ebook): B08P4Y71JX
​Where to buy:
Amazon: https://bit.ly/3bh7omG
My blog post is one of many as part of a blog tour. For more thoughts on this particular book, check out the other blog tour participants' blogs and show them some love!!
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3/16/2021 11:44:59 am

Thanks so much for this wonderful review - and I promise Chief Inspector Seldon features more in the next couple of books!

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