Andorra Pett has left the Oort Cloud Café; she’s back on Mars, a place she vowed she’d never visit again.She’s gone back for her friend Maisie’s funeral. Everyone thinks it was suicide but the more she learns, the less sure she is. Things don’t add up and she realises that the whole story doesn’t make sense. Something else is going on and the questions soon multiply.Why would Maisie kill herself … kill herself if she’d just had good news? Why is Andi being followed? What was the mystery bequest?
When she begins to find the clues that Maisie has left for her, it becomes a race against time. Andi must work out what’s going on and hope that she can get out alive.
What could possibly go wrong?
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This review is for the audio book.
I enjoyed this book. What I like is the unusual setting for the story to take place in, not many cozy mystery sleuths can say they solved a murder on mars, a nice twist on the norm. This is book two and even though it does continue on from the first book it isn’t necessary to have read or listened to it but you learn a lot about what it is like to live in space or what the author thinks it is like and he creates a wonderful world and mystery in both books. The characters are fun and certainly make the story entertaining, I especially liked the grumpy sidekick Cy, who had a lot of fun and enjoyed his roll. The mystery was a little bit obvious, what the well kept secret was but somehow it worked and unfolded nicely. I hope there is another book coming soon.
Andi might have hated her best friend Maisie, after she stole her ex boyfriend. But when the cheating boy in questions turns up in her cafe to let her know Maisie is dead and the police have ruled it suicide, Andi finds herself returning to Mars to investigate and ask questions at the nursing home she worked at. Andi takes Cy along to stop herself from killing the cheat on the long journey back. When they arrive they quickly pick up on two sets of groups that are paying way to much attention to them. Just what did the cheat not tell them? Something more is going on than wanting them to talk to an old man and when Andi receives a secret letter from a dead woman, her room gets tossed and the care home Maisie worked in is burgled it seems Maisie suspicion of her boy friend and Andi ‘s ex was right, he is in it up to his cheating neck. Can Andi and Cy unravel the clues Maisie left for them to find what everybody is looking for?
I liked the narrator she had a very distinct voice that at first I wasn’t sure I liked but as the story unfolded it soon grew on me and I ended up liking it.
I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.
Andorra Pett is still her own worst enemy. She’s just so dang nice that not only does she have a very hard time thinking badly of anyone, she has an even harder time saying no to someone who asks for her help—even when that person is her ex-boyfriend who cheated on her with her best friend. Now that friend (Maisie) has committed suicide on Mars and Trevor (the ex) doesn’t believe she would kill herself. He wants Andorra to return to Mars with him and figure out what really happened to Maisie. Of course, we know from the beginning that Trevor is not being straight with Andorra. The question is what is really going on?
Like in the first book, there is a solid mystery at the core of this story and Dee plays fair with the clues as Andorra works her way closer and closer to the truth. Yet it’s zany Andorra and her sidekick, Cy, that makes the story work. She doesn’t have the large crazy supporting cast of the first novel, but she brings the same Andorra charm to uncovering who killed her former best friend. There are touching moments mixed in around the exciting ones. If you enjoyed the first book, you’ll certainly like this one too.