Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers

Marshall is lying dead on a down-at-heel tea shop floor. Vera, the elderly owner, sets about solving the case when the police decide it's an accident. Vera investigates 4 people who were all showing an unusual interest in her tea shop after the murder. Cosy mystery, minor jeopardy, friendships made, fallings out, all comes right in the end.   

I gave it a low score because I found Vera irritating rather than endearing. She went past feisty and into abrasive and her behaviour, particularly towards the police, was unrealistically rude.  I know the idea in this kind of cosy is that the heroine stands no nonsense from the younger generation, and gets away with it because no one wants to be harsh to an elderly lady, and that is usually funny. But this one went too far for me. I struggled to keep going with it, and only got to the end because I was stuck with nothing else to listen to.