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Utterly #8
Utterly Roasted
It is August 2013 and Chrissie Jax and D.I. Clive Merry return to Suffolk from a short break in Amsterdam. Within a week, two bodies are delivered to the morgue and the international spotlight in on Clive and his investigation.
Tension mounts as a tangled web of car paint re-spraying, a catering outfit, pike fishing and chocolate draws in longterm friends Matt and Nick. Chrissie becomes part of the investigation in a way not one could have predicted.
The action moves from Alton Water to Ipswich; Bury St Edmunds to Felixstowe; Hadleigh to Woolpit and Woodbridge.
This is the eighth novel in the Utterly Crime Series. It stands alone, but we see the return of many characters met before.
Tension mounts as a tangled web of car paint re-spraying, a catering outfit, pike fishing and chocolate draws in longterm friends Matt and Nick. Chrissie becomes part of the investigation in a way not one could have predicted.
The action moves from Alton Water to Ipswich; Bury St Edmunds to Felixstowe; Hadleigh to Woolpit and Woodbridge.
This is the eighth novel in the Utterly Crime Series. It stands alone, but we see the return of many characters met before.
334 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 15, 2018
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About the author
Pauline Manders
15 books8 followersPauline Manders was born in London where she went on to train as an ENT surgeon. She moved to East Anglia with her husband and two children, where she worked for over 30 years before retiring from the NHS. She lives in rural Suffolk in a converted barn and gains inspiration for her crime novels by walking in the countryside with her Weimaraner, Otto. Since retirement, she has had time to write, pursue her shared interest with her husband in classic cars, and also attend a local carpentry group. She is still working on carving three diving ducks as legs for a small table - some projects are more of a challenge than others!
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January 9, 2019
Can get bogged down with the details of the characters interests and actions which can distract from plot points and moving the story along such as carpentry, which routes they're considering to drive across Suffolk and chocolate making. Would be a much better detective novel if the reader was privy to a little more of the actual detection rather than having to guess and discover at the same pace as the detective's nosy partner Chrissie. Best character is Mattie and his comedic girlfriend.
January 13, 2023
Picked this signed copy up in a local charity shop as it looked interesting.
I've given up, some 70-odd pages in.
There seems to be a lot of unnecessary detail given, which can become distracting - like the detailing of a certain carpentry method explained during one scene, or text written in a dialect, which just gets a little tiresome. I think I'm about 17 chapters in, and don't care for any of the characters, no idea where the plot is going, and finding it a chore to get from chapter to chapter.
Sadly for this book, I'm just off the back of reading some absolute corkers, which Utterly Roasted just can't match.
I've given up, some 70-odd pages in.
There seems to be a lot of unnecessary detail given, which can become distracting - like the detailing of a certain carpentry method explained during one scene, or text written in a dialect, which just gets a little tiresome. I think I'm about 17 chapters in, and don't care for any of the characters, no idea where the plot is going, and finding it a chore to get from chapter to chapter.
Sadly for this book, I'm just off the back of reading some absolute corkers, which Utterly Roasted just can't match.
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