Cherringham - Episode 1 - 3
A Cosy Crime Series Compilation
by Matthew Costello; Neil Richards
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Pub Date Nov 03 2014 | Archive Date Oct 31 2015
Description
Jack's a retired ex-cop from New York, seeking the simple life in Cherringham. Sarah's a Web designer who's moved back to the village find herself. But their lives are anything but quiet as the two team up to solve Cherringham's criminal mysteries.
This compilation contains episodes 1-3: MURDER ON THAMES, MYSTERY AT THE MANOR and MURDER BY MOONLIGHT. Here Jack and Sarah investigate a suicide in the River Thames - or was it murder? They investigate an "accidental" fire with deadly consequences, and they nab the culprit behind the Rotary Club choir poisoning.
Cherringham is a serial novel à la Charles Dickens, with a new mystery thriller released each month. Set in the sleepy English village of Cherringham, the detective series brings together an unlikely sleuthing duo: English web designer Sarah and American ex-cop Jack. Thrilling and deadly - but with a spot of tea - it's like Rosamunde Pilcher meets Inspector Barnaby. Each of the self-contained episodes is a quick read for the morning commute, while waiting for the doctor, or when curling up with a hot cuppa.
For fans of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple series, Lilian Jackson Braun's The Cat Who series, Caroline Graham's Midsomer Murders, and the American TV series Murder She Wrote, starring Angela Lansbury.
Co-authors Neil Richards (based in the UK) and Matthew Costello (based in the US), have been writing together since the mid 90’s, creating content and working on projects for the BBC, Disney Channel, Sony, ABC, Eidos, and Nintendo to name but a few. Their transatlantic collaboration has underpinned scores of TV drama scripts, computer games, radio shows, and - most recently - the successful crime fiction series Cherringham. Now into its second season of 12 novellas, Cherringham is popular around the world and has been adapted as a series of audiobooks in English and German.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9783732505678 |
| PRICE | $8.99 (USD) |
Featured Reviews
Ruth P, Reviewer
This book is the omnibus edition of the first three stories from the Cherringham Cosy Crime series. The series is available in digital eBook format and each story is about half the length of a typical cozy mystery book. This makes each story a quick, light read, but as you read through the series you start to get a good feel for the setting of the village of Cherringham where all the mysteries are set.
Each story is self-contained and new characters and parts of the village are introduced in each one as a background to the mystery to be solved. You gradually get to know the layout of the village and can picture the settings and how the characters move around as you become more familiar with the streets and buildings. The series has been compared to Midsomer Murders or Murder She Wrote and I could easily see these stories as episodes in a TV series. The plots develop quickly and move on at a good pace, and the mysteries are interesting but not too complex.
The two main characters, Jack and Sarah, meet in the first story because Jack, an American ex-policeman, lives on a boat on the river where Sarah's friend's body has been discovered. They come from very different backgrounds and there is also quite a big age gap between them. Their unlikely friendship grows through the course of the stories and it will be interesting to find out more about them and see how their relationship develops as the series progresses.
I'd like to thank Bastei Entertainment and Netgalley for providing this book for review.
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