Octogenarian superhero

Well Myrtle Clover isn't an octogenarian superhero but with her sidekick Miles, she is very funny and does solve a murder, so close enough. I loved this book (In fact I am enjoying the whole series). It is hard to say just one thing I liked because I liked it all the mystery, the number of suspects (I hadn't worked who the killer was) and even the family life. I think if I had to pick it would be the characters themselves, the way they play off each other- the toing and throwing between Myrtle and her sidekick Miles, the avoidance of her nemesis and next door neighbour Erma, the daughter In law's craft projects, even the relationship between her and her son all of it add up to lots of light hearted humour and a must listen.
Myrtle has finally got her yard man to come and cut her grass around her gnomes. That is until he finds a dead body in her back yard and it is not an offering from the stray cat that has adopted her. The dead man turns out to be Miles cousin, who he doesn't like because he wasn't the nicest person in the world. Myrtle is tickled pink to have a crime scene in her very own back yard, that way Red her son and police Chief can't freeze her out of the investigation and just to make sure Myrtle offers to hold the wake at her house. With plenty of help in the cooking department it seems Myrtle had pulled it off, that is until another dead body is discovered in her back yard. Why has her garden suddenly become a dumping ground for dead bodies? She is use to the odd snake, mouse and even bat but bodies? At this rate Red will be shipping her off to greener pastures retirement home. That is unless she and Miles can get to the bottom of this mystery. With so make suspects it's going to take a little bit of digging and a case of being in the right place at the right time.
The narrator was okay but talked very clearly to pronounce each word, which resulted in not much range or variety in voices.
I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

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