This is the 3rd outing for Helen Dexter of 'Sea View' Apart from a strange party, a team of 'Crazy Golf' players who are in Scarborough for a tournament, Helen has a lot more to contend with. A 50th birthday party has been arranged for her when she has said she did not want one. Everyone is saying that they did not arrange it. Then the captain of the opposing team has to stay as the rest of the team who are staying next door do not have room for him. So he has to stay with Helen. He makes her sign a form she will not reveal anything about him and also a moon and her her mother 'helps' out, another member walks out. All this adds to a very enjoyable read, funny in parts as well. Oh forgot to mention a murder!

Another 5* read which I can recommend. Hopefully there will be a 4th book, as this one ended with seeds being planted about it.

A lovely cosy series that never disappoints. A chaotic moment in Helen's life as she must face work issues and a murder.
The characters are well thought and likeable as usual, the mystery is well done and kept me guessing.
A lot of fun, highly recommended
Highly recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher for this ARC, all opinions are mine

This is a fun series of books with evermore inventive plots. Scarborough can definitely be added to that ever growing list of places where one must have eyes in the back of your head. I was lucky enough to catch a talk by the author at my local library, prior to publication. Very interesting. Thanks to Netgalley.

Cosy crime at it’s solid best - third book in the series.
Scarborough landlady, Helen Dexter struggles to keep the peace when a crazy golfer dies in suspicious circumstances.
She tries to solve the mystery - there’s the reputation of the hotel at stake.
Follow Helen as she unpicks the clues.
Loved the eccentric characters, lots of humorous moments, would love to stay at the four star Seaview hotel.
Thanks @flaming_nora, @headlinepeg & @netgalley for the eARC

This book is the third book in the Seaview Hotel series. It can be read as a standalone novel, but I suggest that you read the previous books to make this book more enjoyable.
I don't often read Cosy Crime series, but it is a genre that I am increasingly reading and enjoying. Having read the two previous books in this series, I was keen to read this book.
In my opinion this is the best book in the series, I really enjoyed reading it. There were so many twists and turns and red herrings that I couldn't guess who the killer was. It could have been several of the characters. I was keen to keep reading to find out who was the killer.
There was also the storyline involving Jean, the cook. I had warmed to her character in the previous books and it was shocking that she suddenly quit. I was really hoping that she would decide to return to the Seaview Hotel.
Thank you to Netgalley and the Publisher for my ARC.

Foul Play at the Seaview Hotel is the third book in the Helen Dexter Cosy Crime Mystery series and it's an absolute cracker. This amazing series is going from strength to strength and I always love my virtual visit to Scarborough, even though it appears to be the murder capital of North Yorkshire (but that's just in Glenda's books, of course). You can definitely read this book as a standalone but I highly recommend the whole series.

Helen Dexter is all set to welcome a new group of guests to her newly rated Four Star Seaview Hotel. Her guests are a crazy golf team competing in a local tournament and it's clear that they take the game very seriously indeed. Helen also finds herself with an unexpected guest: the team captain of a rival team and his arrival causes tension above and below stairs. The days are numbered for one of the guests and they're about to find themselves checking out...

This is a brilliant 'whodunnit' - I suspected even the most unlikeliest candidate at one point or another. I love how the story is self-contained so that readers new to the series can pick up this book and enjoy it, but there's some wonderful character development to delight established series fans.

Although I haven't been to Scarborough for many years, Glenda paints such a vivid picture with her wonderful writing and her love for the seaside town shines through every word in the book. It was also lovely to see local brewery Wold Top getting a mention in the book as I've tried a few of their beers and loved them.

Hugely entertaining and as drama-filled as your favourite soap opera, Foul Play at the Seaview Hotel is a fantastic cosy mystery. Very clever misdirection and perfect plotting keep the reader on their toes from start to finish and I loved every second of it, so much so that I will definitely be reading it again. It’s absolutely brilliant and I really can't recommend it highly enough.

I received a digital ARC to read and review for the blog tour and this is my honest and unbiased opinion.

Foul Play at the Seaview Hotel is the third book in the Helen Dexter Cosy Crime Mysteries series. I have read and loved the previous books and had high hopes for this one. It did not disappoint. Scarborough is one of my favourite places so I love the setting. The plot is so cleverly written with plenty of red herrings thrown in. I couldn't fault it.

Thank you to NetGalley and Headline for my ARC.

This was such an atmospheric read. Drawn in from the very first page this funny and engaging tale will suck you into the world.

Kept me turning page after page until I had consumed it.

The characters were relatable and the storyline was compelling.

‘Foul Play at the Seaview Hotel’ is the third book in this series and I loved it! Once again it was a brilliant cosy crime mystery that was filled full of humour to counteract the darkness of the crime. I find this series just gets better and better. I have raved about it from book one and Helen and the gang have firm places on my auto-reads! Although, this part of a series this can certainly be read as a standalone as each book is very separate in their stories and anything you do need to know is fully provided by the author.

Helen Dexter is enjoying the status of her four-star hotel and is looking forward to welcoming a team of professional mini golfers. But she soon begins to wonder if her four-star status is a curse on her and the hotel! The mini-golfers turn out to be a strange bunch and their behaviour only gets stranger when their rival team turn out to be staying next door. There isn't room for the rival team captain and he ends up staying with Helen. Disaster strikes when one of the mini-golfers dies on the course at the start of the competition. Then the Seaview’s prize-winning cook quits. Plus, Helen’s 50th birthday is around the corner and despite not being in the mood to celebrate people are receiving invitations to a mystery party. What is Helen going to do…

I really love this series but I might be biased as I grew up in Scarborough and they make me so nostalgic for my home of many years. Glenda manages to paint such an evocative picture of Scarborough and its people that I instantly feel happy when I pick up one of the books in this series. I can see all the landmarks, places and the heart of it all - it's people and Glenda manages to capture this essence and put it down on the page.

Helen is going through something in this outing as people keep telling her ‘She has lost her sparkle’ and the whole way through I thought that Helen was suffering from menopause but this wasn't really addressed. But Helen was still determined to figure out who the killer was anyhow! She does love a good mystery. I loved Sally’s mum Brenda and her one word answers of ‘aye’!

So this is weird but until this week I hadn't heard of professional mini golf but I also saw it on an episode of Bones and then I picked up this book and bam another mention! It's so weird but it also encouraged me to book a round of mini golf next weekend. It was a great theme for this book and I laughed out loud so many times whilst reading it. I flew through this book in one day as I found it to be a great whodunit and a page-turner! Roll on book four as I am already missing Helen and the gang.

Let me know if you pick this one up!

Thank you for the chance to read thIs ARC in return for my honest opinion

I have read all the books in the series and also some of Glenda Young’s historical novels and both genres are highly enjoyable whilst being very different.
It would be possible to read Foul Play as a stand-alone but would have more context if one had read the others in the series.
I love that whoever Glenda chooses as the ‘group’ in the series - this time crazy-golfers - she manages to weave the different personalities into the prose.
We meet up with old characters and people who have been in Helen’s life forever while learning about her new group of clients.
I won’t provide spoilers other than to say there is a murder and the protagonist was a surprise in a way though I had worked out their significance.
As always well written and it motors along but not in a bad way - in the ‘just one more page/chapter’ way.

Looking forward to the next instalment - in a time honoured way ‘keeep dancing’

This is Scarborough hotel owner Helen Dexter’s third outing in a series that grows stronger with each book. As her snotty neighbour and rival hotel landlady Miriam says, “it’s unfortunate the way her guests keep getting murdered.”
The story opens with a group of keen crazy golfers arriving at the hotel prior to a grand tournament. Then the captain of their rival team also takes a room – and it soon becomes apparent that all the players have history with each other. When a player dies in suspicious circumstances Helen has to save the reputation of her hotel once more by solving the mystery.
Along with that, she has her own problems to deal with. Her cook has walked out, her new love interest Jimmy is back from his latest Elvis impersonation tour and pushing her for commitment, and her friends are all behaving very oddly about her upcoming fiftieth birthday.
This was a solid cosy crime story – I just loved the premise that crazy golfers could be so motivated to murder! There is plenty humour in the narrative, but it stays just on the right side of darkness with the ever present sense of danger to at least one of Helen’s guest, to herself, and even to her beloved rescue greyhound Suki.
Helen is an empathetic character and though it would be nice to see her through other people’s eyes occasionally, she is a reliable narrator, and holds the story together well. You can rely on her version of events and join in with her on picking up the clues that lead to solving the mystery.
I enjoyed this story and I think the Seaview Hotel series is getting stronger with each murder mystery it hosts - next time we're promised ballroom dancers taking some serious missteps. I can't wait!

I really enjoyed this latest installment from Glenda Young. The characters are very entertaining.The book is well plotted and there are lots of clues and red herrings.This is a great read for anyone who enjoys a well written cosy crime. I really love this series. Thank you to Net Galley and the publishers, Headline, for providing this ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Helen Dexter returns with the third instalment in Glenda Young's entertaining cosy mystery series set at the Seaview Hotel in Scarborough. Setting the series in an hotel is a stroke of genius, enabling the author to have a new cast of characters with every instalment. In addition to the new characters, the usual suspects from previous titles return either as main characters or bit players.

This particular title features a team of crazy golfers. There are intrigues between the members of the team, and further interest is added by the introduction of a player from a rival team. The murder, when it comes, is unexpected. There are a large cast of suspects and although the clues are there throughout the story, the identity of the culprit is never obvious.

Young writes fluently, her characters are well drawn and the interaction between them believable. at least in terms of the cosy mystery oeuvre.

For readers new to the series, it would be worth starting with the first book and reading in chronological order - there are spoilers in this title which would make the reading of the previous titles redundant, and for fans of the genre they are worth reading.

This series is always entertaining and involving and this instalment is no exception. Fabulous cast of regulars and guests, all with their own little quirks. I have visited Scarborough and loved it, so really enjoy the glimpses of what it would be like to live there. Without giving anything away, the planning of the party was pure genius.

This is my first taste of this Scarborough based cosy mystery series by Glenda Young, featuring widow Helen Dexter and her dog, Suki, still grieving the loss of her husband Tom, whose life revolves around running the Seaview Hotel, which has recently been awarded 4 stars. She is in a constant state of anxiety and jagged nerves, she is not looking forward to her 50th birthday and has no plans of celebrating it with a party, despite being urged to do so by her wonderful Yorkshire cook, Jean. Helen finds herself in a emotional quandry as to whether to move on to the next stage of her relationship with Elvis impersonator, Jimmy, her mind is still full of Tom, is she in a place where she will be able to get together with Jimmy? Sally, her friend and cleaner, is on her honeymoon with cab driver, Gav, and she ignores Jean's misgivings to take on Sally's mother, Brenda, to help temporarily.

Helen's worries are heightened with her new intake of guests, in Scarborough to compete in the crazy golf tournament. They include the nasty piece of work that is Ricky Delmont with his amateur NDA agreement he insists Helen signs, his ex-wife, Alice Pickle, Freddie, the wunderkind that talks in an American accent, a married couple, Marty and Marilyn, with an enormous age gap difference between them, and ex-military Olga who marches the team everywhere. They all have specific dietary requirements intended to keep them at peak fitness levels, wanting ingredients Helen has never heard of and which Jean refuses to pander to. The stage is set for conflict and long running feuds to play out and a murder has Helen feeling she must solve it to preserve the reputation and ensure the survival of her beloved Sea View Hotel.

Young has clearly established a long running set of series characters, this includes Helen's best friend, Marie, and Miriam, the snobby owner of the next door Vista Del Mar hotel, whose attitude makes it difficult to hold on to her cleaners. Helen hears some home truths when it comes to her fabulous cook, Jean, with her award winning breakfasts, forcing her to re-evaluate how she treats Jean on whom the success of her hotel depends. With Helen on edge most of the time in the novel, it is only near the end that it looks as if she is regaining her lost sparkle. This is an entertaining Yorkshire crime read, although at times there was a little too much repetition for my tastes. Many thanks to the publisher for an ARC.

I absolutely loved this book…the third in the series, and I can’t wait for the fourth, I need it NOW!,,

Returning back to the Seaview hotel you feel like one of the residents, you are met with Helen stressed for a variety of reasons heading to her 50th birthday, Sally her cleaner on honeymoon, a party of “crazy” golfers arriving who add so much humour to the book, and taking it out on poor Jean, to the point that she walks out.

Of course there is a murder to add into the mix. All the old characters are back with Jimmy her love interest, Marie her best friend, and a new character Brenda who makes you giggle with her bluntness and don’t ask don’t get attitude.

The first chapter draws you in and any new readers who haven’t read books one and two are caught up on the story so far, so beautifully that it’s not repetitive for returners. You quickly feel for Helen that her stresses stem from the loss of her true love and the grief that brings with it.

The characters are fabulous each have their time and create suspicions into did they do the murder.

I just love these cosy thrillers that Glenda has created, I devoured this in less that two days whilst on holiday. I can’t wait to return for the fourth I really hope we don’t have to wait too long.

I will be back for one of Jeans award winning breakfasts and to stay at the Seaview four star hotel. Thank you for allowing me the early opportunity of reading this. 5*****

This is the third installment in this wonderful series. Helen is back with her faithful companion, Suki her adorable greyhound. In this book she has her work cut out as her guests are a team of crazy golfers. When one of them is killed Helen investigates to save the reputation of her guesthouse.

I cannot rate this series highly enough. The dynamics with Helen, Jean, Sally and Marie are just fabulously written. Jimmy is also back and I feel the writing of their relationship is beautifully done. My personal favourite is the setting, I adore Scarborough so when I am reading this series I can visualise everything.

This series is page turning, funny and at times moving. I was worried I may not enjoy this as much as the first two, I shouldn't have worried as this is my favourite in the series and I cannot wait for book 4.

This is another fun mystery from Glenda Young set in a small hotel in Scarborough. This time the hotel is full of crazy golf competitors who have come to Scarborough for a crazy golf competition. They take their sport very seriously and insist on all sorts of strange health foods much to the displeasure of the Seaview’s award winning cook.
The characters are all as entertaining as ever however, a more serious note is added by Helen’s mood as she tries to move on from the death of her husband. This has an almost disastrous effect on her friendships. The murder victim is quite predictable but the mystery is well plotted and there are lots of clues and red herrings to entertain the reader. The seaside town of Scarborough again takes a starring role which adds an extra layer to the story.
This is a great read for a Summer’s evening for anyone who enjoys a well written cosy crime.
Thank you to Net Galley and the publishers, Headline, for providing this ARC in exchange for my honest review.

A really enjoyable easy read as we meet Helen and friends for this third outing in her hotel in Scarborough. Murder but without the gritty gore so many other books rely on. Nice characters, lots of clues and red herrings, and a little romance and humour thrown in. I look forward to.checking in to the Seaview again if the author writes more in this series.

The third instalment of this fantastic cosy crime collection by the amazing Glenda Young

Following on the trials of Helen Dexter with her Seaview Hotel in Scarborough, some would say unlucky to have so many murders happen to your guests, but sleepy wee villages like Midsomer, and remote islands like Shetland, also have their fictional share of unfortunate murders to deal with.

Please read Murder at the Seaview Hotel and Curtain Call at the Seaview Hotel first. You need to feel the depth of characters here to truly appreciate the accumulation of life that has already occurred in the first books before you can see the minds at work in this fabulous third outing for Helen and her loveable dog Suki.

I won’t give much away here, too many reviewers give spoilers, but suffice to say that the falling out with Jean - the stalwart cook of all things delicious for breakfast and of course cakes - is an upsetting period in the book.

Jimmy is there with all his Elvis charm, Marie - the best friend - still wants nothing more than the best for Helen, the crazy golfers are really that, crazy obsessed.

The story moves along at a pace that never lets you feel like a page is just being filled, the everyday happenings for poor Helen are at times relentless and you feel sympathy in buckets for all she is going through, considering her still enormous grief at losing her husband Tom.

As with the first 2 books I devoured this in no time, all other things than work took a backseat whilst I read my heart out and cried and laughed through it too.

A triumph Glenda for your faithful followers. Thank you.

When is book 4 coming? I need to know what Helen has to cope with for the next 10 incoming troop of Scarborough guests at the delightful - now 4 star - Seaview Hotel. Definitely better than her next door at the Vista Del Mar.