When his relationship with his girlfriend Bea goes out, Ryan Stepney finds himself without a home and also without a job, when he escapes to the small Cornish town of Mousehole. Walking trough town, he gets a fish and chips dinner at the shop where Maggie has been working for years. They start talking when Maggie finds him sitting lonely across the shop, wondering if he is ok. He explains what happened to him and Maggie offers him a job at the fish and chips shop and also offers him to live at the bedsit above the store as it has been empty for years. Ryan accepts the offer. Later on, Maggie advises him to visit the local pub to meet some new people. He meets a couple named Toby and Tania there. They have a chat and he finds out that Toby and Tania have relationship issues. He goes home later. The next day a body is found in the harbour and the police finds out it is the body of Tania. Ryan is the last one who has seen her at the pub, and is seen as a suspect immediately in the investigation. Ryan truly is devastated that he is seen as a suspect as he had nothing to do with her tragic dead, and Maggie truly knows this too. Being a detective lover, besides working frying fish and chips, she starts investigating what happened to Tania together with Ryan, they have to prove Ryan is innocent, but their investigation is not without danger for them..and it seems that in the life of Tania and Toby, there where some fishy things going on..
The Fish and Chips Shop Detectives by Jenny Kane is truly an amazing and fantastic new cozy mystery novel. The storyline and characters are both wonderfull. The story is full of fun and suspence set against a charming background of the small town of Mousehole in Cornwall where everybody knows everybody. The characters of Maggie and Ryan are unbelievably good and portrayed very well. The characters both had heart and depth, and they both felt very realistic. This also counts for the cast of side characters. I loved that the storyline kept many secrets untill the end and that there where no real hints about who commited the murder of Tania, I really had no clue untill the end. The author truly created a good unraveling of who did it and a nice and good wrap up of the story. Just like a good serving of yummy fish and chips, this book makes you crave for more books by this author!
I truly enjoyed this fun and fast paced cozy mystery and I recommend reading it!
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