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The Dinner Lady Detectives

By: Hannah Hendy
Narrated by: Jenny Funnell
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About this listen

Murder is a dish best served ice cold...

In the idyllic, small town of Dewstow, Margery and Clementine are eagerly awaiting retirement from their work on the front-line serving meals to the students at Summerview secondary school.

Their peaceful life is shattered when their kitchen manager is found dead in the school’s walk-in freezer. The police are adamant that it’s an open-and-shut case of accidental death. But Margery and Clementine are convinced that something more sinister is afoot and take it upon themselves to investigate.

As the dinner ladies inch closer to the truth, time's running out. Will the perpetrator get their just desserts or is everything just going to go down the pan?

A charming, cosy British mystery, The Dinner Lady Detectives is ideal for fans of Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club or Murder, She Wrote.

Hannah Hendy lives in a small town in South Wales with her long-suffering wife and two spoilt cats. A professional chef by trade, she started writing to fill the time between shifts.

©2023 SAGA Egmont (P)2023 SAGA Egmont Amateur Sleuths Cosy Detective Mystery Fiction Witty Crime Cats Murder

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Really enjoyed the characters and the twist at the end. A snuggle up and enjoy story.

Loved it!

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True to life and people with the random references to the mundane day to day trivia!

Obscurely hilarious!

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love this book so easy to listen to. Good plot and unexpected ending. I have read it twice definitely my go to read.

love this book

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I have really enjoyed listening to this book very funny in parts. I never guessed who did it brilliant

the dinner lady detective

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Cozy mysteries require lovable characters, not too much conflict/threat and a good story.
This book had some but not all of theose things. Amusing characters, exaggerated for effect but probably necessarily so, but as I write this a few days on I am struggling to really remember the finale, the plot and the denoument.
It was as silly as one would expect when aging dinner ladies, see a murder when no one else does, and try to solve it, but that can still be entertaining, see Marlowe Murders or Osman's Murder Club.
Here the plot was mundane and the only entertainment was in the lives of the characters. It was a short book that took a long time to get through.

A Mundane as Being a Diiner Lady

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Loved this book. If you like Agatha Raisin you’ll like this.
Funny and very self-consciously written in the cosy detective/lesbian crime tradition.
Excellent performance from the narrator.
Recommended.

If you like Agatha Raisin you’ll like this.

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What a lovely amusing listen. Narrator was just right. Looking forward to more books in the series.

Great book.

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Really enjoyed this - fans of the Charity Shop Detective Agency and Thursday Murder Club will enjoy!

A great story, beautifully read

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listening, funny & humerus. I nolonger can hold books, this way I don't miss out. sheer enjoyment 😉

dinner ladies detectives.

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This is a great start to a series. I already care about the people in it. Would recommend to anyone wanting to relax into a book. Looking forward to the next one already.

loved the characters

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