Jude and Carole are friends in the small town of Fethering. They have lunch together in their local pub, the Crown and Anchor, and are victims of food poisoning. Their friend Ted Crisp, the pub's owner, is soon the focus of too many incidents to be accidental and then the pub is the location of a murder. Someone wants him to be driven out of business. This was a good book but it got a little slow in places. The characters are good and the story plot picked up but the solution was a little too obvious. I would probably give this 3.5 stars if I could. The mystery was well done, and the going-on around the Fethering neighborhood were charming. I liked the pubs as the main focus of the story. Anyway, I got a little bored with the book, however, and really had to force myself to finish it. I had to wait for the AT&T guy today so I used that down time to finish it up. The one downside was there were too many characters in it. I'm still not sure where the "bad" guy came into the novel originally, so it was a let down to see he was the one who "did it."
What do You think about The Poisoning In The Pub (2009)?
Light and quick read with the odd couple pairing of Jude and Carole stumbling into the solution.
—Nostalgia_l0ve
Meh cozy with convoluted motive and generally nasty people. Detectives and setting o.k.
—lilianpaine
Fun read by British author, a "who done it" mystery solved by 2 snooping older women.
—mimi
Another satisfying Fethering mystery.
—Arthurockz22
