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Murder at Gulls Nest
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From Jess Kidd, the bestselling author of Things in Jars who “is so good it isn’t fair” (Erika Swyler, nationally bestselling author), the first in a cozy mystery series about a former nun who searches for answers in a small seaside town after her pen pal mysteriously disappears.
I believe every one of us at Gulls Nest is concealing some kind of secret.
1954: When her former novice’s dependable letters stop, Nora Breen asks to be released from her vows. Haunted by a line in Frieda’s letter, Nora arrives at Gulls Nest, a charming hotel in Gore-on-Sea in Kent.
A seaside town, a place of fresh air and relaxed constraints, is the perfect place for a new start. Nora hides her identity and pries into the lives of her fellow guests. But when a series of bizarre murders rattles the occupants of Gulls Nest it’s time to ask if a dark past can ever really be left behind.
I believe every one of us at Gulls Nest is concealing some kind of secret.
1954: When her former novice’s dependable letters stop, Nora Breen asks to be released from her vows. Haunted by a line in Frieda’s letter, Nora arrives at Gulls Nest, a charming hotel in Gore-on-Sea in Kent.
A seaside town, a place of fresh air and relaxed constraints, is the perfect place for a new start. Nora hides her identity and pries into the lives of her fellow guests. But when a series of bizarre murders rattles the occupants of Gulls Nest it’s time to ask if a dark past can ever really be left behind.
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Stacey
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“I was pleasantly surprised when I first heard Jess Kidd was publishing a cozy mystery (one of my absolute favorite genres) I fell head over heels for Kidd’s previous book The Night Ship and eagerly added Murder At Gulls Nest to my TBR.
Former Nun, Nora Breen travels to a small seaside town searching for information on a friend who has vanished. She stays where her friend once stayed at Gulls Nest a peculiar hotel with even more peculiar residents. Hiding her identity she hopes to get to the bottom of the mysterious disappearance of her friend.
This is set up to be a series following the former Nun (Nora) set in the mid 1950s with a dreamy backdrop of the European coast. This tipped the scale and felt more literary cozy mystery (is that a thing?) if so sign me up! I felt like it didn’t follow the formulaic typical cozy and had a little more depth. It does bring an array of colorful characters, and a great amateur sleuth who I’m looking forward to seeing what she gets herself mixed up in next.
Thank you Atria Books
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Kathy
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“Though it took me a while to get through, I ended up really enjoying "Murder at Gulls Nest"! I related to our protagonist (and former nun) Nora, who was thoughtful, interesting, and didn't make exceedingly dumb decisions like other mystery main characters tend to do in order to heighten the tension. The progress of her investigation into the disappearance of her friend Frieda—and the subsequent murders of several residents at Gulls Nest—did drag on a bit, and I think that slow pacing hampered my overall enjoyment and desire to keep picking up the book. I was pulled in every time I opened it, but once I put it down I was never really itching to pick it back up again.
I also thought the revelation of the murderer came a bit too suddenly, without enough clues for the reader to make a good guess about what was really going on. And there were other moments where Nora would seem kind of stalled in her progress, then to suddenly just figure something out or confront someone without much context for the reader about how she got there. This type of uneven pacing was a recurrent theme in the construction of the story, and knocked off a few stars for me.
But still, the setting was cozy and mysterious, the characters were intriguing, and their relationships were appropriately tangled to keep my interest throughout. 3.5/5 stars from me!
[Thanks to NetGalley and Atria Books for an advance reader copy of this book!]”Fictionfare
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