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Death In The Stars - Frances Brody (book review)

Book: Death In The Stars
Author: Frances Brody
Genre: Mystery, Crime, fiction
Published By: Piatkus
Published Year: 2017

 My Review: 
This book is the ninth book in the Kate Shackleton series and also the first book of this series and this author in which I have read.

The book is about a famous singer who comes to Kate to help arrange the transport to a lunar eclipse sighting to which she has agreed to go to. However when someone at the party and a good friend of the singer ends up dead and there is two former deaths in the company within the last two years Kate starts to think that more is going on than just coincidence. 

I found that this book was too slow for my particular taste and that not much particularly happened in the book which made me zone out at times and rather bored throughout the book. This did however pick up near the ending of the book which did have me reading it a lot faster. It does however have a lot of different characters who end up being suspects for Billy's (the man who died at the lunar eclipse)  death which was good and made the reader guess who it could be and why. As the book is also based in the 1920's I thought that this was a good touch and made the book rather unique due to the time period and how the case was being taken care of outwith the police.


My Rating: 3/5

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