Death Takes a Bath

A Cotswold Crimes Mystery, Book 1

When Maddie McGuire lands an archeology internship at the Roman Baths in England, she assumes everything will go her way. But when this college sophomore discovers a severed human ear on her doorstep, she must solve its meaning before she becomes the next victim, or worse, gets deported. Her tentative friendship with young constable Edward Bailey and the beauty of the Bath Abbey are no comfort as her aristocratic coworker Simon Pacock sabotages her every move. And the danger only increases when she discovers a dead body, both ears intact.

©2022 Sharon Lynn (P)2023 Vibrance Press

Enjoyable

Death Takes A Bath is an enjoyable cozy mystery. I look forward to the next book.

utterly stupid heroine, brilliant narrator

while I did register the h would be young based on being a college student, I figured early 20s based on the internship (I was figuring some sort of post grad, and I was right, she lied on the application). when I discovered she was only 19 I tried to blame her sheer gullibility and stupidity on that, but no one is THAT stupid.
I only finished out of sheer determination to get my $'s worth, and even that was totally down to the excellence of the narrator (and even then I had to skip chunks here and there - seriously, the stupidity is that bad. I detest the use of a stupid heroine as the means to advance the plot - sheer laziness - and, in this case, unbearable).