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The Mystery of the Lost Husbands by Gina Cheyne | Book Review

The Mystery of the Lost Husbands by Gina Cheyne | Book Review

While the SeeMS Detective Agency normally specializes in finding lost dogs, they take on a different sort of case in this book.
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The Mystery of the Lost Husbands by Gina Cheyne
Series: SeeMS Detective Agency #1
Genres: Mystery

A crime mystery from the SeeMS Detective Agency series. The Mystery of the Lost Husbands is the first in the series.

Is murdering husbands an addiction or merely a bad habit?

This is the question facing P.I. Cat Harrington when rich builder, Tom Drayton, dies shortly after his wedding night. Suspicion falls on his widow, Anastasia Rodriguez, the survivor of three previous ‘lost’ husbands.

Two years later, Anastasia is engaged again, to Cat’s friend Angelo, an Italian snail collector.
Angelo’s sister, Gia, employs Cat and the SeeMs Detective Agency to discover if her brother’s financé is a killer.

The search for Anastasia’s lost husbands takes Cat and her team from Scotland to the South of Spain and on to Argentina.
They have just a few weeks before the wedding to discover if Anastasia is a murderer and save their friend from becoming victim number five.

For fans of Arsenic and Old Lace and The Number 1 Ladies Detective Agency.

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Finding lost dogs is what the SeeMS Detective Agency normally specializes in, but this time they are trying to find out if Miranda’s boyfriend’s best friend (say that three times fast) is heading towards the alter with a blonde widow. Anastasia Rodriguez has four previous husbands, Johnny, Carlos, Romero, and Tom, who have all died. Now Angelo is planning to wed her and Miranda just knows this is going to end badly.

Together with her partners, Cat (yes, the irony of a cat, even if in name only, finding lost dogs is not lost on me) and Stevie, they take on the case thanks to Angelo’s sister. Heading off to Shetland (on a side note, I want to go here). Cat picks up the trail which leads to London, then Spain, and Argentina. The only thing is, as the women investigate Anastasia, they begin to discover other things about her. So the question that must be answered is whether she is truly a black widow or just unlucky when it comes to husbands.

I enjoyed this book, which does switch between the investigation in the present day and Anastasia’s history with her four husbands. Each of the main characters is well written and easy to get to know. The plot itself is well written and complex, which I loved. I definitely enjoyed it, but there was something about it that kept me from saying I loved it so much. I can’t put my finger on what it was either. As I said, all in all, it was a good book. very enjoyable.

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About Gina Cheyne

Gina has worked as a physiotherapist, a pilot, freelance writer and a dog breeder.

As a child, Gina’s parents hated travelling and never went further than Jersey. As a result she became travel-addicted and spent the year after university bumming around SE Asia, China and Australia, where she worked in a racing stables in Pinjarra, South of Perth. After getting stuck in black sand in the Ute one time too many (and getting a tractor and trailer caught in a tree) she was relegated to horse-riding work only. After her horse bolted down the sand, straining a fetlock and falling in the sea, she was further relegated to swimming the horses only in the pool. It was with some relief the race horse stables posted her off on the train into eastern Australia to work in a vineyard… afterall what could go wrong there?

In the north of Thailand, she took a boat into the Golden Triangle and got shot at by bandits. Her group escaped into the undergrowth and hid in a hill tribe whisky still where they shared the ‘bathroom’ with a group of pigs. Getting a lift on a motorbike they hurried back to Chiang Rai, where life seemed calmer.

After nearly being downed in a fiesta in Ko Pha Ngan, and cursed by a witch in Malaysia, she decided to go to Singapore and then to China where she only had to battle with the language and regulations.

Since marrying the first time, she has lived and worked in many countries including Spain and the USA.

For a few years Gina was a Wingwalking pilot, flying, amongst others, her 64 year old mother standing on the wing to raise money for a cancer charity. She was also a helicopter instructor and examiner and took part in the World Helicopter Championships in Russia and the USA.

She became a writer because her first love was always telling a good yarn!

Under the name Georgina Hunter-Jones she has written illustrated children’s books such as The Twerple who had Too Many Brains, and Nola the Rhinocerous loves Mathematics.

She now lives in Sussex with her husband and dogs, one of who inspired the Biscuit and Pugwash Detective Series about naughty dogs who solve crimes.

The Mystery of the Lost Husbands is the first in the SeeMS Detective Agency series and Gina’s first crime novel for adults.

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  2. The Mystery of the Lost Husbands, sounds like an intriguing mystery for me to read! Thanks for sharing your review and have a splendid day!

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  3. Thank you for sharing your review of this book, Anastasia does sound like a black widow but I will have to read the story to know for sure.

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  11. I love the title of this book and after reading the review I think this is one that I would enjoy reading.

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  15. I love Arsenic and Old Lace, so I know I’ll love this book. I am so impressed with Gina Cheyne bio. An airplane wing walker? With her 64 year old mother? That’s a WOW for me.

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  21. I like books that alternate between the present and past and unfold the story a bit at a time to keep me guiessing. This would be one I’d check out.

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