The Disability Book Archive

[ID: A book cover for Poisoned Primose by Dahlia Donovan. The title is written the bottom in large white writing. The author’s name is written below this in smaller black capitals. The name of the series “Motts Cold Case Myster 1” is written above the title in smaller white capitals. The background art shows a grey cat sitting in between yellow flowers on an orange floor next to an orange shovel. /end]

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Content Warning:

• Ableism
• Misogyny
• Panic Attacks
• Violence
• Car Accident
• Blood
• Stalking
• Arophobia/Acephobia

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Summary:

Meet Motts and the quirky cast of characters in her world. Poisoned Primrose is a quintessential cosy British mystery and an all-round fun story to throw yourself into.

Autistic, asexual, and almost forty, Pineapple “Motts” Mottley flees London with her cat and turtle to a quaint cottage in Cornwall. She craves the peace of life in a small village. The dead body buried in her garden isn’t quite what she had in mind, though.

Unable to resist her curiosity, she falls directly into a mess of trouble and runs head-first into the attractive detective inspector, Teo Herceg. She tries to balance her business with the investigation, but as the killer focuses on her, staying alive becomes trickier than advanced origami.

Will Motts survive the onslaught of murderously bad luck?

Can she solve the mystery before it all spins out of control and off a cliff?

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Notes:

This is the first book in the Motts Cold Case Mystery series.

There is an ebook. There is a kindle edition.

Donovan also wrote the Grasmere Cottage Murder Mystery series. You can find the entry for the first book, Dead in the Garden, here.

Here is a link to the author’s website.

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Archivist Comments:

I’ve seen reference to at least 3 side characters of colour being present in the book- one Indian woman, one Indian man, and one biracial half-white half-Asian man (I have no more specifics than that). I haven’t fully been able to confirm their presence in the text, but I’ve marked the entry to reflect them for now.

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