Title: Purloined Poinsettia
Series: Motts Cold Case Mystery, #4
Series: Motts Cold Case Mystery, #4
Author: Dahlia Donovan
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Release Date: August 6, 2022
Publisher: Tangled Tree Publishing
Cover Designer: BookSmith Design
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Release Date: August 6, 2022
Publisher: Tangled Tree Publishing
Cover Designer: BookSmith Design
Murder comes knocking when a killer hunts for budding amateur detective Pineapple “Motts” Mottley in the fourth novel of the Motts Cold Case Mystery series.
The past and present collide for Motts when two serial killer brothers barge into her plans for Christmas in London. Her desire to solve her childhood friend’s murder brings her ever closer to danger. She finds herself one fall away from the grave herself.
When one of her former primary school teachers winds up dead in her burning house, Motts realizes the mystery is far more twisted than she ever imagined.
Is she running out of time to catch not one but two killers?
What sort of macabre gift will Motts find wrapped under the tree?
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A Pineapple, a cat in a sweater, and a turtle hide in a garden in the middle of winter to avoid the clutches of the icy queen ogre.
Right.
Mildly dramatic.
More than mildly dramatic.
After living in Cornwall for almost a year, Pineapple “Motts” Mottley hadn’t anticipated returning home for the holidays. Not when home meant her overbearing mother and her mild-mannered, loving father. If it hadn’t been for the serial killer trying to complete his schoolgirl collection, she’d have stayed hidden in her little cottage on the top of the cliff above Polperro.
No one knew for certain who the serial killer was. Or if they were really after her. The police had managed to determine many of the girls in her primary school class had been murdered or died in suspicious circumstances over the past thirty-plus years.
Definitely not a coincidence.
So Motts had resigned herself to spending most of December in her childhood home. With her parents. At forty years old. She was not looking forward to any of it, considering she’d left London for a reason.
To get away from the noise and her mother.
Sometimes the noise is Mum.
Her mother meant well. She just hadn’t ever managed to adjust to having a daughter who was autistic, asexual, and biromantic. Motts had hoped at some point she would.
She hadn’t.
At least her mother had stopped trying to set her up on dates with unsuspecting men and women. Motts had enough chaos in her life. She didn’t need random strangers thinking of her romantically.
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This is the fourth book in this series. They need to be read
in order. This book also has a cool little cross over with the boys from the
London Podcast Mystery Series by Dahlia. Motts is spending the Christmas season
in London with her parents. Her detective said it would be safer. Turns out not
so much. They are getting closer to figuring out who has been killing the girls
in her year at school. Motts is smack dab in the middle of it. As if someone
trying to kill her isn’t enough there is her mother. She treats Motts like she
is incapable of living on her own and knowing what she needs. Her dad doesn’t
say anything to dissuade her mother but her other family members do step in.
Motts gang isn’t going to make her go through this alone and come to London as
well. Will they be able to figure out who is after Motts before its to late? I
love this series so much. This book was a great conclusion to who was killing
the girls in Motts year. Motts is such a fantastic character. Maybe just maybe
she has found her special someone who understands what she needs to be her person.
Motts gang of friends are amazing. Always there for her. Knowing when to push
and when to pull back and just give her space. I hope there will be more Motts books
in the future. Fantastic job Dahlia.
Dahlia Donovan wrote her first romance series after a crazy dream about shifters and damsels in distress. Dahlia is an autistic who prefers irreverent humour and unconventional characters. She has found great happiness with her husband, her tiny dog Bacon, and her collection of books and video games.
Dahlia has worked over the years as a teacher, insurance adjuster, and even had a brief stint as the pianist in a band–very brief, like three weeks. She uses her experiences as a TCK travelling around the world during the first twenty-years of her life to add spice to her stories.
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