What antique would you kill for?
Freya, it’s down to you to finish what I started. . .
Freya Lockwood has avoided the quaint English village in which she grew up for the last 20 years. That is until news arrives that Arthur Crockleford, antiques dealer and Freya’s estranged mentor, has died… and the circumstances seem suspicious.
You will uncover an invitation, I implore you to attend. . .
But when a letter from Arthur is delivered, sent just days before his death, and an ordinary pine chest concealing Arthur’s journals are revealed, Freya finds herself sucked back into a life she’d sworn to leave behind.
But beware, trust no-one. Your life depends on it. . .
Joining forces with her eccentric Aunt Carole, Arthur’s staunch best friend, Freya follows both clues and her instincts to an old manor house for an ‘antiques enthusiasts weekend’. But not is all as it seems; the antiques are bad reproductions and the guests all have something to hide.
Can Freya and Carole solve the mystery and unearth the killer before they strike again?
I really enjoyed this book! I found that I was soon engrossed in the storyline and I needed to find out who murdered Arthur and why!
I’m really sad that we didn’t get to meet Arthur as a character fully as he sounds like he was fabulous! He was also very clever with the clues he had planted and set up to be found by Freya and Carole along the way.
I really felt for Freya at times, you could tell that she had a lot of hurt inside her from different things and people and it was nice to see that she started feeling more like her as the story developed. She had been through a lot in her life but Carole has always been there for her.
Carole had me laughing out loud at times, she has absolutely no concept of what discreet means however, I think that works to her advantage at times and also works in favour of Freya and previously Arthur too.
I loved the storyline itself as we were following the clues alongside Freya & Carole. The main issue is that everyone was a little on the ‘dodgy’ side and trying to work out who it could be was hard. Trying to work out if anyone could be trusted was even harder.
I loved the twist at the end that I had not seen coming, in fact I was convinced it was going to turn out to be one of the characters that we thought was alright actually not being so. You can grab a copy here #Aff
Huge Thanks to Random Things Tours and C.L. Miller for my place on the blog tour in exchange for a free honest review.
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