Hour is Come: A British Cozy Murder Mystery with a Female Amateur Sleuth (A Dotty Sayers Antique Mystery) by Victoria Tait

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I would like to share a new Murder Mystery book which is part of a series. The new book is called Hour is Come: A British Cozy Murder Mystery (A Dotty Sayers Antique Mystery) by Victoria Tait (Author). I received a copy of the book in exchange for this review. Inside this post is my affiliate links if you click on the links and make a purchase I will make a small percentage off the products you purchase.

David and I’ve been watching more Mystery shows but there hasn’t been anything new for us to watch. David picked out a new tv series to watch that I couldn’t get into. I decided I would read a book while David watched his show. I found Hour is Come a murder mystery and being a series I knew I would have something to read for a while.

Hour is Come isn’t Victoria Tait’s first murder mystery she also has the Kenya Kanga Mystery series and before you ask yes, I will be checking them out as well. Hour is Come is the first book in the Dotty Sayers Antique Mystery series and the prequel book which introduces a delightful young woman whose new life as a widow has also brought about a sense of “freedom.”

Dotty Sayers is still struggling with some loneliness at home, but she is enjoying working at the antiques center, making friends, and learning the nuisances of an exciting auction community. Dotty also has found, through unofficial means, that helping the novice Constable Varma is exciting, and liberating in a way, and she just might have a knack for uncovering secrets. Along with a clever mystery fraught with lots of questions, curious details, and a bit of peril, Dotty has an important decision to make about her future. That’s the cliffhanger…what does she decide?

The prequel is only available through the author’s newsletter although if it’s a prequel, it’s 240 pages and a full mystery story introductory novella for the Dotty Sayers Antique Mystery. If you were to ask me what genre of story this is I would say it’s a contemporary mystery, although it has the feel of a classic murder mystery show from earlier times which would make a fantastic movie.

About the book:

Hour is Come by Victoria Tait

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A dead husband. A hidden body. Can an inexperienced amateur sleuth save herself and identify a killer in the stroke of time?

Young military widow, Dotty L Sayers, just wants to take life one day at a time, with the help of Banff, her husband’s black Labrador. Seeking financial security, she excitedly accepts a temporary job in a local Cotswold auction house. But she realizes she can’t accept everything at face value when she discovers a dead body inside a grandfather clock.

While the police focus on jealousy and blackmail, there’s no time to lose if Dotty is to prove her husband’s ex-wife’s innocence. This determined novice detective unveils her colleagues’ secrets, but when the police ignore her findings, she realizes she may be wasting her time.

As the clock ticks, can Dotty convince the police of her suspicions, or is she living on borrowed time?

Hour is Come is the entertaining prequel to the Dotty L Sayers Antique Mystery series. If you like captivating whodunits, believable characters and charming British locations, then you’ll love Victoria Tait’s page-turning tale.

Download Hour is Come before the clock strikes today!

Meet the Author: Victoria Tait

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Victoria Tait was born and raised in Yorkshire, England, and never expected to travel the world. She’s drawn on her life’s experiences of following her military husband, and a love of Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Murder She Wrote, to write British-based cozy mysteries.

Her determined and hard-working female sleuths are joined by colourful but realistic teams of helpers, and her settings are vivid and evocative. As you’re compelled to keep turning the pages, you’ll be irresistibly drawn into a world of intrigue, surprises, and humour, as well as a delectable helping of mystery, because tea and intrigue are a perfect blend.

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1 thought on “Hour is Come: A British Cozy Murder Mystery with a Female Amateur Sleuth (A Dotty Sayers Antique Mystery) by Victoria Tait

  1. Glenda, thank you so much for reading and reviewing my book. And I’d love to make this and the associated series into films or TV shows!
    We call the genre cozy mystery (UK term is cozy crime) and it did start with the Golden Age authors of Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers etc.
    Cozies are a sub-genre of crime fiction in which sex and violence occur off-stage and there is no profanity. The detective is usually an amateur sleuth who is typically well-educated, intuitive and holds a job which brings her (yes, typically a woman) into contact with the local community, within which the crime, usually a murder, occurs.
    If you’d like any more information, or other books of mine to read and review, please contact me at Victoria@VictoriaTait.com
    Best wishes
    Victoria

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