The Expectant Detectives is a charming debut mystery about a group of soon-to-be moms-turned-detectives. Can they solve the mother of all murders? For Alice and her partner Joe, moving to the sleepy village of Penton is a chance to embrace country life and prepare for the birth of their first child. He can take up woodwork; maybe she’ll learn to make jam? But the rural idyll they’d hoped for doesn’t quite pan out when a dead body is discovered at their local prenatal class, and they find themselves suspects in a murder investigation.

Dru’s Short Musing:
This is what happens when moms-to-be get involved in a murder investigation – you have an amusing and fun mystery.

What a delightfully engaging whodunit with a lovely cast of characters, engaging dialogue, and antics that had me laughing out loud. When a body was found, murdered, someone among the moms-to-be could potentially be a murderer. When Alice, her dog, Helen, and the other moms-to-be start looking into things, it becomes apparent that someone is willing to kill to keep their identity a secret. I love the writing style of the author which I found very crisp with a comfortable tone and easy to follow along. The pacing was on par with how well this story was being told. There were plenty of suspects, and it was fun to watch things unravel as clue after clue shortened the suspect list until there was only one person standing – the murderer and at that we learned the motive.

Genre: Cozy Mystery
Release: January 9, 2024
Format: Print, Digital, Audio
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FTC Full Disclosure – I received a digital ARC of this book from the publisher via NetGalley.