I love this cosy crime/murder series.
I appreciate the appearance of spikiness of Margaret – abrasive to the world but adores Bess. Bess can be seen as the opposite of Margaret – colourful, optimistic, always needing to think the best of people – and adores Margaret. Yet somehow they end up in difficult situations where their lives are at risk – and they are sure the other is keeping secrets from them and is about to leave and blow their world apart.
They always have each others back, would sacrifice themselves, but thankfully never need to.
In this book they have literally just moved into the house that they have bought together when a relative is on their doorstep with their dog needing a place to stay. As this is fiction they let her in – I would not have done so but I am quite anti-social. The relative is a grumpy, rude, investigative journalist who soon needs their help.
They end up going undercover into a health resort that is based around the local pink salt lake – and investigating another murder. This is as always quite dangerous for them but ultimately brings them closer together and planning their future.
I do really like this couple – they have a realism to their relationship that probably to some looks unrealistic. Nothing goes quite how they want it to – until the point where it is literally life or death.

I really recommend this series. I love it.