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Andorra Pett and the Oort Cloud Café

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Andorra Pett and the Oort Cloud Café

By: Richard Dee
Narrated by: Gill Coltman
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How far is far enough? Andorra needs to get away from her ex, but is Saturn taking it a step too far?

When Andorra’s life turns upside down, she decides on a career change. Running a diner on a mining station orbiting Saturn. It seemed like a good idea at the time....

With her best friend Cy in tow, Andorra reckons it’s the best thing for them both. A chance to start again where nobody knows them.

Trouble is, there’s a secret hidden in the café. Before they have a chance to get settled, there’s a queue of dubious characters trying to find it.

While learning to bake and get used to life in space, Andorra has a murderer to catch!

Before they strike again…

©2017 Richard Dockett (P)2020 Richard Dockett Cosy Crime Fiction Fiction Mystery Science Fiction Solar System

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the book is a very good sci to crime book, although there isn't much investigating going on and a lot of exploring and baking cakes. the book follows Andorra and psi as they are on a space station around Saturn just starting to run a cafe when they find a dead body. the book then follows Andorra as she tries to work out who killed him and why along with running the cafe and trying to get a licence to fly vehicles in space.

overall a great easy listening book with a cosy mystery thrown in the mix

great story

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This book is a delightful, fun detective romp story of girl power in space. Leaving behind Earth and a faithless lover, Andorra Pett (Andy) and her friend and assistant, Cyri! (Cy) head into space to a mining station beyond Mars to build a new life, investing almost all of their cash in the idea of a cafe with views of the rings of Saturn. The lease on the dingy Ucky Strike supplies the views, plus three bedrooms, two store rooms, two chest freezers - and a body frozen in one of them. Plus an hostile landlord and some helpful but suspect employees.

Narrator Gill Coltman becomes Andorra Pett, recounting in first person the story as it happens, her warm and laughing voice replete with gentle Scottish accent. She is fully invested in the storyline, her pace speeding at times of tension, emotion outing through. Here is an excellent performance, including also the individual voicing of the other characters. Her reading works in harmony with the author's text.

My deep thanks to the rights holder of the Port Cloud Cafe who, at my request freely gifted me with a complimentary copy via Audiobook Boom. I can't wait for another helping. Who killed the philandering previous owner? Will Andy be able to keep her new business? Will the two friends ever find love again? All this and far more in Andorra Pett and the Port Cloud Cafe. Science fiction, humour, mystery and murder. Delicious and delightful - and highly recommended.

"The new kids at the Ucky Strike."

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This is the first book by this author that I have listened too or read but it won't be the last. I loved it. The whole idea of setting the mystery in space is such an unusual idea, it makes it stand out from all the rest of the cosy mysteries out there. You got a good sense of being in space without it being the main focus or taking away from the mystery side of the story. Combine that with a great cast of characters and the author is onto a winner here. The mystery was good with plenty of suspects but it was the characters that really made it work. I especially liked the main characters Andi and Cy, and like Andi I was hoping some of the other characters were innocent as they each became suspects. I hope there are a lot more books in the series to come.
When Andi catches her boyfriend cheating on her, she and her best friend run away from there dead end jobs and boring lives, to the furthest place they could go, Saturn. Once there they decide to take over the running of one of the two cafe at the station. The problem is the cafe has a lot of history and bad memories for the people at the station, mainly because of the previous owner. He just disappeared one night and everybody believes he ran off to escape a jealous husband. So they were not expecting to find him dead in the freezer. Perhaps one of the jealous husbands caught up with him. Rather than become the prime suspects and being new to the station with nobody to trust, Andi and Cy decide to keep his death quiet and investigate themselves. Can they find the killer? And what about the tell all book he was planning to write? Everybody seems to want a job at the cafe but do they need jobs or are they just looking for the book? And who can they trust? The cafe is broken into during the night and a fight breaks out, at this rate Andi is going to be on first name turns with all the officer's. She had better find the killer before the police find a reason to search the freezer and find the body.
The narrator was good and she used different voices for each of the characters.
I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

An out of this world mystery

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