Dead Tired by Kat Ailes (2024)
They're back.......and I couldn't be happier. And anyone who likes their cozy mysteries riddled with laugh out loud moments, should welcome the return of the English countryside's most unlikely group of amateur sleuths.
In their debut in "The Expectant Detectives", Alice, Poppy, Hen, and Ailsa, living amidst the bucolic green meadows and forests of the Cotswolds, somehow cracked a murder case while all of them were on the verge of giving birth. (And accomplished this much to the perpetual aggravation of Ailsa's hot tempered sister Jane, the area's primary police detective.)
One year later, the ladies are coping with the exhausting, chaotic task of baby raising. but still find themselves embroiled in a fresh new murder case. How could they not? After joining an eco-protest group, their chained-to-trees-all-night demonstration ends with one of the one of protesters found strangled while still bound to their tree.
Once again, Alice (the book's narrator), ends up taking the investigative lead, even though her life is a riotous, whirlwind of diaper mishaps, breast feeding calamities, housekeeping disasters and the never ending, embarrassing misadventures of her out-of-control dog, Helen. Along the way, Alice also has to cope with Poppy's renewed detecting enthusiasm, Hen's nervous unease (since she's employed by the company targeted by the protests) and the always eye-rolling, suffer-no-fools disdain of fierce activist Ailsa,, whose twin babies only slightly softened her. just a bit.
A plentiful collection of suspects, twists and reveals round out this mystery which I found, as I did the first of this series, so much fun to read, a book that keeps you smiling throughout and at times delivers genuine LOL scenes. And personally, I can never get enough of those, so I didn't have to think twice about rating this 5 funny stars. (*****) Here's hoping the ladies are solving cases till their babies are ready to enter college.......
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