Another cosy mystery featuring a loveable old lady with a
wonderfully funny name: Mrs Tillie Thistlethwaite!
We get right into the criminal action here from the
beginning: in the quiet town of Tillamook, teenage ballet dancer Honora is
kidnapped one night after the dancing class by a mysterious stranger!
Meanwhile, Tillamook’s inhabitants follow their usual routine: Tillie
Thistlethwaite, 85, gives senior yoga lessons, her friend Slim Bottoms leads
the Kazoo band. Tillie is well-known as the town’s agony aunt, too: when Olivette,
who’s just moved into town with her husband, a retired pastor, asks her for
advice about how to deal with his Alzheimer’s, she gives her the most wonderful
tips; Tillie knows all too well about the illness: her husband had had it as
well.
When the news about Honora’s disappearance spreads, though,
and the police fear she might be the latest victim of the ‘Coastal Killer’,
Tillie thinks she’s got a more important – and more dangerous – mission to
carry out this time: from a tale of her friend Opal’s from her teaching days
about a boy who used to steal things and leave wooden carvings of them behind
instead, Tillie is certain she knows who the girl’s kidnapper is; and she and
Slim set out to track the ‘magpie’ down and free Honora…
A wonderfully humane story with loveable characters who each
have got their own personal backstory; as thrilling and suspenseful as any cosy
mystery, but just a touch more sensitive. There are quite some gentle hints of religiousness,
without overdoing it, though; it’s just a general kindness that prevails, a
belief in the good in mankind. And Tillie is the best example of a kind old
lady: she even tries to help a mentally disturbed kidnapper! A great read not only
for mystery fans – this is actually one cosy mystery with a message.
https://www.amazon.com/Mrs-Thistlethwaite-Magpie-Tillamook-Mystery-ebook/dp/B0711NWMNS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1532362910&sr=8-1&keywords=mrs+thistlethwaite+and+the+magpie
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