A Dirty Death

I've read four of Tope's Cotswold Mysteries and this is my first of the Den Cooper series. Actually I'm a little surprised to see that it's called a Den Cooper series, because Cooper doesn't seem to play a large or effective role in this particularly mystery. As other reviewers have said. The mystery......more

It started out well, Lila’s finds her dead father in the slurry pit. All the characters in a nice cosy mystery show up, but they never really seem to develop into real people. Gave up two thirds through and read the last few pages to see who-dun-it. A minor character who is hardly mentioned in the f......more

This is the first in the series. The main character is Lilah. She looses her father and then handyman who owned part of the farm and her whole family was falling apart. This one kept me guessing until the end. You knew there were murders but couldn't figure out who did it. It's not often I am so su......more

way too long Convoluted and misleading, I hate when it would have been solved if the police had thoroughly investigated and if the victims had been honest.......more

There was nothing wrong with the book, apart from the selling point. I did not think this was gripping as described, but that doesn’t mean others won’t find it gripping. More that it wasn’t enough for me. I should have realised by the use of the word ‘cosy’ because it simply plodded along and I ende......more