Only Murders in the Courtyard ... (Review of The Marigold Cottages Murder Collective)
If you dug out your blender... threw in a whole bunch of Only Murders in the Building ... added a soupçon of Friends. .. a jigger or so of Cheers ... and a hearty dash of Mrs. Roper (from Three’s Company )... well, you might end up with something much like the delightful tipple that is Jo Nichols’ mystery novel, The Marigold Cottages Murder Collective . And if you did? Oh my, how sweet it would taste, going down... The elderly, caftan-wearing “Mrs. B” is the proud owner and landlady of a grouping of seven quaint cottages (one of which being her own domicile), in beautiful Santa Barbara, California. The cottages are a blast from the past—tiny, grouped intimately around a miniature courtyard—and constantly fighting off “progress”, in the form of fancy new multi-occupant buildings (the likes of which encroach upon all sides). Being just a short walk from the Pacific Ocean, though, means these little homes are verit...