RATING: SUPERB!
SPOILERS!!!
I have to say that I have enjoyed this book greatly. It was super. It was so funny, witty and charming!
When Steve, Amy, Rosie and Henk van Veen return to England and go to the pub for the quiz night, they discover that Jeff is there. He is the man who was supposed to replace Steve in his team. Jeff explains that he faked his death to be able to have some leeway to investigate. Jeff and Henk accuse each other of being Joe blow. After the quiz, they return to Steve's house, and it is Steve who says that he thinks that Max, the actor, is Joe Blow. The documents that Steve has with him shows that Max was in all the transactions with the influencers, and Joe Blow was one of his characters in an early film. And Felicity says that he was one of her first clients when he started.
The night is cut short when the police intending to arrest Amy for the murders. Amy escapes while the others cover up for her. Steve, Rosie and Henk travel to Dubai to face Max, and Amy and Jeff find themselves in the office with Susan to investigate further. Then Jeff accuses Amy, claiming that she has been involved all along, and Amy then accuses him. Suddenly, Amy shoots him in the leg and orders Susan to find the documents that prove that Jeff is the crook. Amy takes Jeff to the den while Susan tries to find the documents. Yet, Amy tells Jeff that she was not sure before, but now she is certain that what Susan is doing is deleting files, so she is Joe Blow. Amy tells Jeff that she will take him to hospital for the shoot, and the police will need to be notified.
In Dubai Steve stays with her son, Adam, but the situation is awkward between them as they feel unable to talk about Debbie. They try but it is hard. Steve thinks that he can sort out the mystery of the crimes. Rob Kenna is shot dead while playing golf. Then Steve discovers who Patrick Loubet is. After being in the sauna with Mickey Moody and talk about their lives, he goes to find him in the pub, and he tells him that he knows that he is Mickey Loubet. The key to his nickname is in his tattoo which Steve spotted during their sauna conversation. His tattoo showed the names of his two grandmothers, who raised him, Elisabeth and Louisa, their short forms, Bet and Lou, that is, Loubet. Mickey is smug and confident that nobody can catch him and there is no evidence. Yet, Steve reveals that there was a camera in his door peephole, and now there is footage of him going out and returning from killing Rob with the gun appearing in his bag. So Mickey is finally arrested.
Rosie solves her problem with the Russian oligarch, Vasily. He turns up in Dubai, and he finally tells her that he won't kill her. His sister-in-law is one of her best fans, and she would kill him if he does anything to her, so he leaves with a book signed by Rosie.
Eddie also confronts Rosie, and she discovers that Eddie is an aspiring writer and he wants her to read the beginning of a novel he has been writing in all this travelling. She does, and in the process they become lovers.
At the end of the novel Rosie, Amy and Steve are back in the village, and Amy reveals that she has left the bodyguard company and wants to run her own detective agency based on solving murders that nobody has cared to solve. She wants Steve to be her partner, and Rosie has already agreed to fund the venture. Steve is reluctant to say yes, but the girls leave him alone to have a 'conversation' with Debbie, and when they return, he says that Debbie talked to him and said not to be a fool and join Amy in the agency, which they decide to call ' We Solver Murders'.
As for Bonnie, she is at the airport when she decides to send Felicity an email to check whether the bag she has to carry is all legit. Felicity and Tony arrive just before she was checking her luggage in, and they explain everything, so she cancels the trip. Felicity tells Bonnie to keep the money, which she can use to promote her dream as an influencer. Bonnie does not want to keep the money as it feels illegal to do so, but Felicity and Tony tell her that the money won't be claimed and she needs to think of giving it a good use, and she can even send money to the families of the influencers that died, and Bonnie finally agreed.
I really adored the book, and I can't wait for the next instalment.
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