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Fake Death
(2022)(The first book in the Dotty Sayers Antique Mystery series)
A novel by Victoria Tait
Young widow Dotty Sayers is delighted with her new job at a Cotswold auction house until the body of an unknown man threatens her chance of a fresh start.
The police ask Dotty to appraise items from the victim’s home, but rather than learning his name, she finds a trail of false identities. One of them leads to a new client, but Dotty is shocked when the woman is murdered in the middle of an auction.When the police arrest the groundsman at a local country estate, Dotty is convinced they have the wrong man. Agreeing to care for his British Blue cat, she starts asking questions of her own.
Can Dotty unmask the killer before she becomes the next victim?
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Fake Death is the first book in Victoria Tait’s Dotty Sayers Antique Mystery series, a clean, feel-good British cozy mystery set in the Cotswolds. Dotty is a shy young widow and a reluctant amateur sleuth, finding her feet at the local auction house. She has a found family who take her in, a growing friendship with Constable Keya Varma, and an adopted cat called Earl Grey. It is a fair-play whodunnit built around false identities, a charming village, gentle humour, and a cast of eccentric characters. Perfect for fans of Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club and M.C. Beaton’s Agatha Raisin, and viewers who love Murder, She Wrote and Antiques Roadshow.
Genre: Cozy Mystery
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