The mysteries in both books are fun and full of twists, turns, and interesting characters, but the greatest delight is the romance between Andre and Freddy. The B & B is charming and filled with another interesting group of characters, and much to his surprise, Andre also finds another murder! To help out a troubled young gay man who is also a guest and was found over the body, Andre again decides to investigate and is pleasantly surprised when he finds that Freddy is able to haunt the country house as well-so once again the team is together to solve another mystery. Andre is happy to go, though he will miss Freddy. In The Country House, Freddy discovers that his family’s old country home is now a B & B and he asks Andre to go visit it for him and tell him what it is like now.
The biggest twist of the story is that Freddy and Andre start falling for one another and Andre finds himself in a relationship with a ghost. We also meet Andre’s aunt who raised him and the interesting detective investigating the crime who just may have a motive of his own. Because Freddy is tied to the apartment, he guides Andre along in the investigation as Andre questions his quirky group of neighbors, which includes the victim’s brother and husband. Freddy calls Andre the Watson to his Holmes. When Andre becomes a suspect, he lets Freddy talk him into investigating.
At first, Andre doesn’t want to believe Freddy is really a ghost but he quickly realizes there is no other explanation.Īndre’s life gets even more complicated when he finds one of his neighbors murdered just outside his door. The ghost is that of the original owner of the home (Freddy’s home was turned into apartments), charming playboy Freddy Birtswistle, who lived during the Roaring Twenties and was killed in 1935 by a jealous husband. He moves the player piano to his apartment and when he begins to play it, he is visited by a ghost! Not exactly what he was expecting. In The City House, Andre Beaufort’s life as a music teacher is pretty ordinary, until he discovers an antique player piano in the basement of his apartment building. They feature music teacher Andre Beaufort and playboy ghost Freddy Birtswistle.
The Player is actually two separate cozy mysteries together, The City House and The Country House. When asked to review The Player I was immediately intrigued by the premise and said yes, and boy am I glad that I did.
Details at the end of the post on how to enter to win an audiobook copy of the first book in another series written by Joe called Drama Queen, and a link to order The Player from Amazon. This week we have a review of the first in a new gay mystery series by Joe Cosentino, along with a fun guest post by Joe where he interviews his main characters.
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