“You have one day to leave town peacefully, if not, you can leave in a box.”

113. His & Hers – Alice Feeney

I really like the cover of this book with all the twisty tree branches essentially in silhouette but also crossing the title. I think I like the cover more than I liked the actual novel, which seems to put just a few too many people totally capable of murder within a very small town at once. I mean, I get it, small towns can lead to creativity to break out, but hiding your murderous or just felonious impulses in a small place is way more difficult. And hiding someone else’s just takes so much out of you.

A lot of this takes place in the woods, which goes with the cover and is more entertaining than just going between the pub and home, which seems to be quite the small English village pastime as is totally fine. It’s mainly between the perspectives of Anna Andrews, person who left town but is now forced back from her television job because someone returned from their maternity leave, and Inspector Jack Harper, solver of murders in the woods who definitely knows Anna. It’s interesting enough to keep one’s attention, if a bit unbelievable at the end. Even though I guessed the last twist, I think it was a decent twist. It would have been better if I hadn’t guessed it, but we can’t all gasp, now can we?

 

Horace and Ozma are waiting for their village boar and ladypig mystery to solve. What they haven’t realized is that they should be waiting at the pub, not on the back of a couch in the US. Whoops.