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A Body by the Lighthouse by Helen Cox

paperback published by Quercus 3rd February 2022

Private investigator Kitt Hartley and her twin sister Rebecca are preparing for a holiday in Scotland when crew ship entertainer Errol Jackson appears at the door. Errol break the news to Bryce Griffin, a former smuggler and an old friend of Kitt’s, has been murdered his body found washed up by a lighthouse, bearing a gunshot wound. Kitt persuades Rebecca to cancel their trip and, together with Kitt’s assistant Grace Edwards and best friend Evie Bowes, books onto the next cruise to Norway to help with the ongoing murder investigation.

Aboard the cruise ship Kitt, Grace and Rebecca encounter burlesque dancers, casino dealers, drag queens and a talking parrot named Skittles seemingly the only witness to Bruce’s death. But what dark secrets are lurking below deck? Can Kitt catch the killer before it’s too late?

MY REVIEW

I am so pleased to be back reading the new book by Helen Cox. I’m a big fan of the authors Yorkshire mysteries, with reading all of her books. A Body by the Lighthouse is a guessing game who has committed a murder.

Private investigator Kitt Hartley and her twin sister Rebecca were preparing to go on holiday to Scotland. But Kitt Hartley is given some very bad news her friend Bryce Griffin had been shot, with his body has been washed up on the rocks by a lighthouse.

With the huge size of the Ship, of about a thousand crew members that work on it, that means this equals to a lot of suspects as the police believe that Bryce must have been shot at then pushed overboard. The question is why did someone want to kill Bryce Griffin and how was a gun smuggled onto the cruise ship? And how did the person who shot Bryce, without anyone hearing a gunshot.?

With all these questions I just had to find out who was responsible for killing Kitt Hartley’s friend Bryce.

Helen Cox, is my queen of Miss Marple, who knows just how to write the perfect mystery to kept me up way past my bedtime, as once I start reading Kitt Hartley Yorkshire mysteries I can’t stop. I have had such fun over the course of a couple of years reading Helen Cox book after book, now I all I need to know is what will Kitt Hartley investigate next?

I would like to thank Quercus Books for sending a printed paperback copy to read and review and for very kindly inviting me to take part in this brilliant blog tour.

About author Helen Cox

Helen Cox is a Yorkshire born novelist and poet. After completing her MA in creative writing at the University of York St. John. Helen wrote for a range of magazines and websites as well as for TV and radio news. Helen has edited her own independent film magazine and penned three non- fiction books. Her first two novels were published by Harper Collins in 2016. She currently hosts The Poetrygram podcast and works for the City Lit. She lives in Sunderland.

Helen can be found on

http://helencoxbooks.com/