The latest in a series of travel guide cozy mysteries
ominously titled Passport
To Peril finds us in
picturesque Cornwall. I spent New Year there recently so
let's see what mishaps I was lucky to avoid.
SAY NO MOOR brings Emily Micelli to a charming cottage B&B
on the Cornish coast. She and her husband operate a travel
agency for seniors from Iowa, normally. On this occasion
Emily's tourists are joined by six travel bloggers getting
a discount. Also by a gender-reassigned lady, Jackie, with
a personal connection to Emily. Confusingly the B&B hosts
are partners called Enyon and Lance, and Lance the chef is
a bruiser from New Jersey who has to be written for the
comedy. I did think Cornwall had quite enough character,
drama, and contrast without this overstated addition, but I
also thought maybe he would grow on me in the course of the
story.
Some of the bloggers don't get along. The Jane Austen fan
can't abide the one who reads the like of PRIDE AND
PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES. They're all far too ready to film
any drama on their phones and upload it. The regular
tourists, replacement joints or limbs making them more
timid, aren't sure they are getting a good deal compared to
the noisy bloggers. In all the chaos, an accident occurs.
Could someone have intended malice? A death on the tour
isn't the publicity Emily hoped for, even near haunted
Bodmin Moor.
Much cantankerousness, chat, sarcasm, and charm go along
with this group of seniors and younger bloggers. I'd
previously read BONNIE OF EVIDENCE which took the same
seniors to Scottish castles. Just as with that book,
once I'd got over the running commentary by them all and
their determination to each be center stage, I enjoyed
their company. Happily metal-detecting on a windswept
beach, walking the causeway to St. Michael's Mount,
stepping in to cook when the cook is indisposed, taking
selfies, entertaining the group of an evening, they are
really living up their retirement. You don't need to love
each one to know that they are doing something right. As
for the writers, they were up past midnight tweaking their
daily posts.
This book could also be called a series of odd events,
including thefts, a vanishing person, and deaths. Give
yourself a treat and read the commotion, as Maddy Hunter
has excelled herself with SAY NO MOOR. I love it.
"The eleventh book in the Passport to Peril Mystery series
is solid proof that this series just keeps getting better
and better."—RT Book Reviews
Tour escort Emily Andrew-Miceli's plan to boost her business
with social media threatens to backfire in merry old England
Hoping to reach an expanded clientele of senior travelers,
Emily Andrew-Miceli invites a handful of bloggers to join
her group's tour of England's Cornwall region. But when the
quarrelsome host of a historic inn dies under suspicious
circumstances, Emily worries that the bloggers' online
reviews will torpedo her travel agency.
To make matters worse, Emily is roped into running the inn,
and not even a team effort from her friends can prevent
impending disaster. As one guest goes missing and another
turns up dead, Emily discovers that well-kept secrets can
provide more than enough motive for murder.
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