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Aunt Bessie Assumes

An Isle of Man Cozy Mystery, Book 1

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Aunt Bessie Assumes

By: Diana Xarissa
Narrated by: Rosalind Ashford
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Aunt Bessie assumes that she'll have the beach all to herself on a cold, wet, and windy March morning just after sunrise, then she stumbles (almost literally) over a dead body.

Elizabeth (Bessie) Cubbon, aged somewhere between free bus pass (60) and telegram from the Queen (100), has lived her entire adult life in a small cottage on Laxey Beach. For most of those years, she's been in the habit of taking a brisk morning walk along the beach. Dead men have never been part of the scenery before. Aunt Bessie assumes that the dead man died of natural causes, then the police find the knife in his chest. Try as she might, Bessie just can't find anything to like about the young widow that she provides tea and sympathy to in the immediate aftermath of finding the body. There isn't much to like about the rest of the victim's family either.

Aunt Bessie assumes that the police will have the case wrapped up in no time at all, then she finds a second body. Can Bessie and her friends find the killer before she ends up as the next victim?

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Aunt Bessie is your quintessential British cozy mystery heroine.
It took a while for my Aussie ears to get used to the narration, but it was appropriate to the story. Looking forward to more in the series.

Quintessential cozy

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I expect I could have enjoyed this story, had the narration been better (or better still, a completely different narrator). I barely lasted 10 minutes before I had to turn it off. Such a shame.

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