One of a Kind: A BRAND NEW utterly beautiful romantic read from AWARD-WINNING author Jane Lovering for 2024 by Jane LoveringMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Three and a half stars.
Cressida works at an animal rescue centre in Yorkshire, which less about nurturing sick bunnies and more about shovelling manure, being called at 3am to rescue animals that are perfectly fine, and being bitten ... a lot. She is in bed with a heavy cold when she is woken by her BFF Ivo calling her. Ivo is a journalist for a local newspaper and he needs her help. The police have found a dead body on the moors, they don't think it is a suspicious death, but the man randomly has a live squirrel in his pocket, and not just any old squirrel, a red squirrel when the nearest known family of red squirrels is hundreds of miles away.
Ivo has always been very intense, at college Cressida wondered if he took drugs, she definitely saw him palming some tablets once, and gets very focused on trivialities at times. He is convinced that there is a mystery to solve. Who is this man? How did he get on the moors? How did he get a squirrel to sit in his trouser pocket (and isn't that dangerous)? This is very much a case of cherchez l'écureuil (which is what I have just discovered is the French for squirrel).
Cressida has been in lust with aristocratic Ivo with his model looks and eclectic dress sense forever, so despite her better judgement she gets drawn into Ivo's quest to find where the squirrel came from.
I liked this but I didn't love it. Maybe it was too quirky?
I received an ARC from the publisher via NetGalley.
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