Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death

Written by M B Vincent

Narrated by Beth Eyre

Welcome to Castle Kidbury - a pretty town in a green West Country valley. A microcosm of the wider world, it's home to all sorts of people, with all the stresses and joys of modern life, but with a floral clock and a proper butcher's. It also has, for our purposes, a rash of gory murders ...
 
Jess Castle is running away. Again. This time she's running back home, like she swore she never would.
 
Castle Kidbury, like all small towns, hums with gossip but now it's plagued with murder of the most gruesome kind. Jess instinctively believes that the hippyish cult camped out on the edge of town are not responsible for the spate of crucifixions that blights the pretty landscape. Her father, a respected judge, despairs of Jess as she infiltrates the cult and manages, not for the first time, to get herself arrested.
 
Rupert Lawson, a schooldays crush who's now a barrister, bails her out. Jess ropes in a reluctant Rupert as she gatecrashes the murder investigation of DS Eden. A by-the-book copper, Eden has to admit that intuitive, eccentric Jess has the nose of a detective.
 
As the gory murders pile up, there’s nothing to connect the victims. And yet, the clues are there if you look hard enough.
 
Perfect for fans of Midsomer Murders and MC Beaton, this is cosy crime at its most entertaining and enthralling.
 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio UK
• Release date: Oct 18, 2018
• ISBN: 9781471176975

M B Vincent

M.B. Vincent is a married couple. She writes romantic fiction; he writes songs and TV theme tunes. They've even written musicals together. They work at opposite ends of the house, andthey meet in the middle to write about Jess Castle and Castle Kidbury, the West Country's goriest market town. When they're not making up books, tunes, and mysteries, they cram head out in an open- top car and explore. They particularly like West Country market towns ...

Reviews for Jess Castle and the Eyeballs of Death

[Beth Newton · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Complex, satisfying, great character development and brilliant narration thank you

[clairemays · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Just couldn't go to the end of this trite, willfully "witty", overpopulated story. Disappointing as I found the first chapters compelling. Tired of writers who seem to be imagining the television staging in their head and describing it to us complete with the funny bark from stepped-on doggie. Really tired of female voice artists whose only resource to convey a masculine character is to combine breathiness and a dopey speech rhythm.

[Lorena McGovern · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Like a British Stephanie Plum. A lot of fun characters

[Sharon Neumark-payne · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Good narrator, fun fluffy mystery. Irish accent could be better but so could my cooking, still edible. Enjoyed it. A bit of light fun.