REVIEW: Honey Bee Murder by Dahlia Donovan (Honey Bear Cosy Mysteries #2)

- December 02, 2023

HONEY BEE MURDER

Honey Bear Cosy Mysteries - Book Two

by Dahlia Donovan

Release Date: November 23, 2023

Review

I am completely smitten with this series of cosy romantic british-style mysteries featuring George and Murphy—our resident Bee Keeper and Mead Maker.

They are adorable, and hilarious in the situations they end up in. It’s a good thing the local police officers are friends and family, otherwise, they’d both be in jail or dead themselves! But they and their friends are turning into pretty good detectives!

After some bizarre encounters with the new neighbour who’s convinced George is somehow training his bees to attack, he winds up dead and the police have some questions for George. It of course would help if George stopped letting the other suspects into his home for tea! It’s all a bit overwhelming. But he’s got Murphy by his side and that makes everything better.

Think Miss Marple or Father Brown if they were a gay couple with pugs. I love the writing style just as much as I love the couple and their friends and family.

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Synopsis

George Bernard Sheth plans to spend July in the garden with his beloved pug, Bumble. He’s tending to his bees when a neighbour harasses him quite vocally. When the man winds up dead, all eyes are immediately on George and the many hives in his garden.

Murphy Baird knows without a doubt George wouldn’t harm a fly or a bee or an obnoxious rich businessman. He balances keeping his brewery going with trying to help solve the murder and preparing for the upcoming Highland Games. It’s not made any easier by the impending visit from his father.

As the mystery deepens, they find themselves not knowing quite who to trust.

Can they find the killer before George winds up arrested for murder?

About Dahlia Donovan

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 over the years travelling around the world and working to add spice to her stories.

An adoptee, TCK (third culture kid) and survivor of childhood abuse, Dahlia uses a pen name to avoid her technically unsavvy adoptive family. Her story is all her own, though.

She’s proud to be a survivor, a writer, and one of the odd ones.

She hopes one day to write about her experiences.

She is currently obsessed with Destiny 2, the Mass Effect world, books, the ukulele, rugby, tea, and attractive men.

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