Eternal Forest by PJ Skinner

 Eternal Forest 

by PJ Skinner



Will exonerating a good friend’s husband of murder, implicate her instead?


My thanks to PJ Skinner for sending me a copy to review and to Kelly at Love Book Tours for inviting me to take part on the tour.


Synopsis

Tanya Bowe, an ex-investigative journalist, and divorcee, runs a vintage shop in the coastal town of Seacastle. When her old friend, Lexi Burlington-Smythe borrows the office above the shop as a base for the campaign to create a kelp sanctuary off the coast, Tanya is thrilled with the chance to get involved and make some extra money.

Tanya soon gets drawn into the high-stake arguments surrounding the campaign, as tempers are frayed, and her friends, Roz and Ghita favour opposing camps. When a celebrity eco warrior is murdered, the evidence implicates Roz’s husband Ed, and Tanya finds her loyalties stretched to breaking point as she struggles to discover the true identity of the murderer.

Will she discover the truth before one of her friends is convicted of murder?

In this enthralling English, small-town, cozy mystery, Tanya finds herself torn between a search for the truth and loyalty to her friends. If you love a cozy whodunnit set at the seaside, with a cast of recurring characters, this is the series for you


My Review

This is the second book in The Seacastle Mysteries, following on from the very successful first book Deadly Return. It was so good to meet up with the all my favourite characters again and move onto the next murder with them and PJ has seamlessly linked the two books together to make you feel as though you have just popped into Vintage again for another cup of coffee and a slice of delicious cake.

As to be expected, as well as the murder to be solved, there is the simmering love interest , plus another one! and you find yourself in the will they won't they scenario or , which one will Tanya go for. Just like Deadly Return , Eternal Forest is a lovely entertaining read and the "Who Dunnit" is very well hidden until you get to the closing chapters.

I am really looking forward to the next instalment in The Seacastle Mysteries and hoping beyond hope that book three, Fatal Tribute, isn't going to be the final instalment.

I love these cosy mystery books with all the coffee and cake along with many mornings of boiled eggs and soldiers in Grotty Hovel that will have you yearning for your childhood favourites again whilst enjoying the characters that PJ has created and whom you feel you have known for years. Yet another gripping 5 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 read from PJ Skinner.


About the Author


I have been writing in various genres and under various pen names for nearly ten years. In 2020, I moved to a small town on the south coast of England where I spent lockdown during the Covid pandemic. During that time, I published a sci-fi mystery, Mortal Mission under the name of Pip Skinner and realised I had a great idea for a series of Cozy/Cosy Mysteries set at the English seaside. I have always been a massive fan of crime and mystery and I guess it was inevitable I would turn my hand to a mystery series eventually. I planned the Seacastle Mysteries with half an eye on the classic mysteries of Agatha Christie, so they are classic whodunnits, but I have set up modern scenarios and twists.

Before I wrote novels, I spent 30 years working as an exploration geologist, managing remote sites and doing due diligence on projects in over thirty countries. During this time, I worked in many countries in South America and Africa in remote, strange, and often dangerous places where I collected the tall tales and real-life experiences. These inspired the Sam Harris Adventure Series, chronicling the adventures of a female geologist as a pioneer in a hitherto exclusively male world.

Books

The Seacastle Mysteries, English small town cozy mysteries set in a seaside town

The complete Sam Harris Adventure series of seven books covers the career of a female geologist, from rookie adventures in remote sites in Africa and South America, to forays into the concrete jungle.

PJ also writes under the pen names Kate Foley and Pip Skinner. The Green Family Saga (Kate Foley) starts with Rebel Green, set in Ireland at the beginning of the Troubles in the North. Mortal Mission (Pip Skinner) is a science-based murder mystery, think The Martian with fewer potatoes and more bodies.

Find out more and keep up to date at;

https://pjskinner.com

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@PJSkinnerAuthor

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