A Fête Worse Than Death by Dolores Gordon-Smith – well I’ve finished it and I have to say I really enjoyed it. Although to be honest I couldn’t exactly say why.
When I was little I was a huge fan of Nancy Drew – I thought she was wonderful and this lead into crime fiction. Recently I re-read a Nancy Drew book but as with most nostalgia it doesn’t deliver the same emotions 25 years later. On the other hand reading A Fête Worse Than Death left me with the same feelings I had when I first read Nancy. What I liked was that we were presented with almost all of the necessary detail to solve the mystery but like our hero we’re just not seeing it.
I originally wanted to get this book ’cause of the art work on the cover and I had hoped that the content would reflect that cover and it most certainly did. I think I will have to talk nicely to himself about getting the next two 😉
It was absolutely gorgeous. For our main course we had baby potatoes with thyme and chicken breast stuffed with spinach & goats cheese covered in a chorizo sauce. It was fantastic! The dessert was supposed to be birthday cake but somebody forgot to collect it from the bakers (don’t ask!) so we had profitta rolls. At this point I remembered that I was supposed to take photos – palm/forehead – doh! So apologies but the food was just to good and besides my pictures wouldn’t have done it much justice.
