The Widows’ Guide to Last Orders: A totally irresistible cozy mystery

· The Widows’ Detective Club Book 4 · Dreamscape Media · Narrated by Diana Croft
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Life in Little Shaw is as nice as pie for librarian Ginny Cole. She's got a tentative truce with her grumpy neighbor Detective Inspector Wallace, and Sunday quiz nights at The Lost Goat with her friends (team name: The Merry Widows). Until the young quizmaster is found dead in the cellar. The police call it an accident; Ginny suspects murder. But with Wallace strangely impossible to locate and convince, she and the other widows must step - carefully, mind - into the breach.

The victim, it turns out, wasn't just torturing locals with impossible trivia. He was hunting for his great-aunt who vanished from Little Shaw in 1963, along with what village gossips insist was a fortune in Cold War secrets. Now Ginny and her friends must decode a sixty-year-old mystery involving priest holes, spy scandals, and the competing egos of the local history society.

But when the killer strikes again, the widows need to solve this fast before someone calls last orders on them...

A brilliantly twisty cozy mystery perfect for fans of Fiona Leitch, Robert Thorogood and anyone who thinks retirement should come with a side of solving murders.

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Life in Little Shaw is as nice as pie for librarian Ginny Cole. She's got a tentative truce with her grumpy neighbor Detective Inspector Wallace, and Sunday quiz nights at The Lost Goat with her friends (team name: The Merry Widows). Until the young quizmaster is found dead in the cellar. The pol...

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Andrea Romance
April 23, 2026
When the quizmaster at a small-town pub is found dead, the police call it an accident. Librarian Ginny suspects murder, uncovering a 60-year-old mystery involving a missing woman, local rivalries, and Cold War secrets. Like the other books in the series, this is a light-hearted, fast-paced, and entertaining cozy mystery. Thanks, NetGalley, for the ARC I received. This is my honest and voluntary review.
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