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Book Review of Cloche and Dagger (Hat Shop, Bk 1)

Cloche and Dagger (Hat Shop, Bk 1)
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Great first in a new series. I enjoyed this one a lot. It has the 'cozy'-English Tea, hat shop, Notting Hill. It has the two young ladies who star as main characters (one is not present for most of the story, as she is missing). The other characters are charming, well described, and very fitting, and I even liked the male star of the book, he was interesting and the story line was not contrived as it sometimes is. Ms. McKinlay has a way with her words, and this is true of the word play throughout, with Scarlett (MC) and her new friends, as well as the shop intern, Fee. It has the slight oddity-Fred, the raven. It has London in the springtime weather. The whole book comes together nicely, and has me looking for the second one soon.