Trouble in the Cotswolds

Is there any more unlikeable character than Thea Osborne? Self-centred, whingeing, rude and nosy - she's even worse in this book because she has the flu. Good grief.......more

Thea Osbourne, the protagonist in this series of supposedly detective stories, is one of the stupidest and most unpleasant characters I've read about. She never detects anything, just pokes her nose in and finds things out. Never puts two and two together, generally has to be spoon fed the glaringly......more

It's Christmas and Thea is house sitting a dog and some rats. Things go from bad to worse when she gets a bad case of the flu. Because her brain is addled from the virus, she puts diesel in her car when it doesn't take it, and ends up with no car and a repair bill. There is no cheer for the holiday......more

Wonderful......more

Lots of Wretched biographical errors in terms of when things previously happened in previous books. Why wretched? If you read it, you'll notice it's a favourite word.......more