Death at Cherry Tree Manor by Tannis Laidlaw - Traditional/Cozy

I read the second book in a new series coming out in March. I really enjoyed it. I would say it is a traditional mystery and a cozy. It is set in an English village. I always like those mysteries.

Death at Cherry Tree Manor by Tannis Laidlaw.
This is the second book in her new Madeline Brooks Mystery series.



About: 

"Madeleine Brooks is learning on the job. What she doesn’t need is a grouchy seller. What’s worse, he doesn’t yet own the grand manor but hopes to inherit it. With a failed marriage and bills to pay, Maddie needs this listing. She has to establish the heir’s right to sell. And that means finding his great-aunt Beryl, the lawful owner, dead or alive.

Death at Cherry Tree Manor catapults Maddie into the role of an amateur detective in an Oxfordshire village full of past histories and deep secrets.

Love Agatha Christie-style murder mysteries? Cosy crime novels?  Stories set in an English village? Then get your copy of Death at Cherry Tree Manor now! Grab a cup of coffee and find out whodunit...."

If you like English countryside mysteries you will love this. We get to know Maddie and the others in the village. The descriptions of the countryside village are great. You will empathize with Maddie, Douglas and William. Maddie is drawn to figuring out what happened to Douglas's Aunt Beryl; was she senile and walked away from home never to be found? Did she take her money and flee to live a life of luxury in another country? Is Maddie in too deep between trying to learn the real estate business and playing sleuth? The ending is very suspenseful and exciting. And there may be a romance budding...Seems like an opening for a second book and am thrilled to read that there is a second book in this series.

I love the cover too. It does have an Agatha Christie feel with a touch of Agatha Raisin, two of my favorites.

About the author: 

http://tannislaidlaw.com/

"Dr. Tannis Laidlaw has worn many hats in her career as a psychologist: clinician in private practice, in psychiatric bins and in the prison service; researcher in schizophrenia, anxiety, psychopathy and other personality disorders, mind-body interactions, and the therapeutic use of hypnosis; research manager; writer and lecturer.

She has always been fascinated by the human condition, not only in those with crossed wiring but also when ordinary people are driven to behave in extraordinary ways. Her fiction reflects her psychological background; her non-fiction, her interests as a wife, mother and friend.

Tannis lives with her husband in Auckland, but spends half her time at a deserted beach in Northland, the semi-tropical northern part of New Zealand, and in a remote cabin in the woods on a Canadian lake – all places where she writes and writes and writes."

Tannis's first books are suspense/psychological thrillers. I want to read those also. 

I received a free book and voluntarily provided this review.