The premise of this, cosy, culinary crime with an Indian Aunty amateur detective appealed to me. I'm not familiar with the radio show and don't know whether it would help to be. Perhaps I have read too much cosy crime, or perhaps I wasn't in the right mood, but I struggled with this.

In particular, I found Mrs Sidhu difficult to get a sense of, she felt very remote; the supporting characters, some of whom I struggled to keep track of, felt no clearer. There is humour and a sense of menace, but I didn't find flow in the writing and didn't feel engrossed in the book.

I read an advanced copy courtesy of NetGalley.