t was nice to be reacquainted with the three main characters, Jeanie, Clio and Amber. In this book we are introduced to Jeanie's sisters and their mum, brought together for her hen night. I enjoyed reading about the siblings and their inevitable rivalries and this added a little something extra to the book.

Despite this being the night before Jeanie's wedding, when they discover a dead body in the nightclub the three women decide to investigate. As an ex-police officer, Amber is determined they solve the crime and find the killer before the police do.

There are some nice twists and turns during the book, which made for a fun, and entertaining read. Although the plot is centered around a murder, what I like about this novel is it does not take itself too seriously. It is an amusing, enjoyable and quick read.

Overall, the book is about the friendship between these three strong women and I liked watching this bond strengthen. Anyone who likes a cosy mystery centred around middle aged women will enjoy this book.

3.5 stars
A fun read, full of misadventure, family drama and an overriding story of friendship. Jeannie, Clio and Amber are a great mix of characters, each able to bring their own strengths and individuality to the team,and it’s been fun being back with them investigating the latest mystery. Throw in Jeannie’s mad cap family and this is a fast paced ride.
I really enjoyed the humour from Katie Marsh again and look forward to seeing what comes next for the Bad Girls Detective Agency.

Katie Marsh delivers a whirlwind of suspense and hilarity in "Murder on the Dancefloor," where a seemingly innocent bachelorette weekend takes a dark turn. From the outset, the promise of a killer hen weekend is delivered with gusto, setting the stage for a rollercoaster of events.

Marsh skillfully weaves together the dynamics of friendship, sisterhood, and the quest for truth as Jeanie's bachelorette celebration takes an unexpected detour into mystery and intrigue. The cast of characters, led by the spirited trio of Jeanie, Clio, and Amber, adds depth and charm to the narrative, drawing readers into their world of camaraderie and chaos.

The central mystery of the dead girl on the dancefloor, clad in a matching hen T-shirt, serves as a catalyst for a series of twists and turns that keep the reader guessing until the very end. The introduction of the Bad Girls Detective Agency injects an element of amateur sleuthing that is both entertaining and endearing, as the unlikely trio races against time to clear their names and solve the murder.

While the plot occasionally stretches the bounds of believability, Marsh's witty prose and knack for crafting compelling dialogue ensure that readers remain engaged throughout. "Murder on the Dancefloor" is a delightful romp that seamlessly blends elements of comedy and suspense, making it a perfect choice for fans of cozy mysteries and light-hearted whodunits.

I've yet to read the first book in this series - The Bad Girls Detective Agency - but as they're all individual mysteries I didn't feel that I'd missed out on anything.

Only recently have I started to enjoy reading cozy mysteries, they're relatively short, easy reads and like this one, can be fun to read. It literally was a case of murder on the dancefloor when one of the hens is stabbed and left for dead.

Throughout I thought the characters were brilliant, with their witty banter and friendships, which them such a great team.

An enjoyable and entertaining lighthearted read.

I'm reviewing this via NetGalley, for a book tour with Rachel's Random Resources.

This cosy mystery is the second book in the Bad Girls Detective Agency series. I enjoyed the first book, How Not To Murder Your Ex, a few months ago, so I was looking forward to reading this.

This was a lot of fun to read. I found the characters fun, feisty and relatable, and I enjoyed reading about them again. There were also some pop culture references throughout the story that I enjoyed. I enjoyed the dynamics of the characters, how they interacted with and related to each other. This book was very light, easy reading and made me chuckle. It's probably the type of book that I would pick up to help me relax, or cheer myself up. I think this book series would appeal to some of my friends, even if they don't read regularly.

Thank you to NetGalley, Boldwood Books, Rachel's Random Resources, and to the author, for the opportunity to read and review this.

jeanie is on her hen night. It's not something that she's really enjoying as her sisters decided to organise it rather than letting her best friends do the honours.
Whilst in the local dive nightclub, a girl is killed and somehow Jeanie, Amber and Clio get involved. Also why is Jeanie's fiance acting strangely?
What has happened to the wedding rings?
A nice cosy mystery which has laugh out loud moments.

Murder on the Dance Floor is a humorous cozy mystery with an ensemble cast who work together to find a killer.

The hen party kicks off in an uproarious way when a girl is stabbed on the dance floor. There is a lot of tense drama here as people scramble to help the dying girl while others try to preserve the scene and stop people from leaving. There is one suspect right from the get go and it isn't long before one of the ladies from the detective agency is in hot pursuit.

Things aren't always as they seem though and events take an even darker turn when a plot involving drugs, blackmail and kidnapping is unveiled.

I enjoyed the relationships between Jeanie and her family and her friends. Jeannie's family might be a royal pain, but they are loving and are there for one another when it matters. There is also great banter between Jeannie and her friends, which lends humour to the story.

The ladies seem to stumble onto clues and into situations at the drop of a hat leading to plenty of dramatic yet lighthearted scenes in their pursuit of the truth.

Dressed as My Little Pony (don’t ask…!), Jeanie is enduring her hen weekend, the whole event choreographed by her control freak sister – and there are three more sisters too, none of them anyone’s ideal company, along with her mother who’s very much on automatic pilot after the loss of her husband. Jeanie’s still grieving too – but this weekend is all about “fun” (allegedly…), so thank goodness for besties Amber and Clio at her side. Six months on, and the Bad Girls Detective Agency has had a few successes – but their next case is one they can’t help stumbling over, a victim of stabbing, most definitely dead, lying on the dance floor wearing one of the hens’ T-shirts. Jeanie was already having doubts about her impending marriage – fiancé Tan hasn’t been at all himself recently, and she was worried he might have been having second thoughts too – but this feels like one of the worst omens possible.

But the weekend continues in accordance with Nicola’s spreadsheet, more “fun” along with the stag party who were also at the club that night – but so does their investigation, with Amber trying to get one over on her former police colleagues, Clio dashing in without any thought to her own personal safety, and the day of the wedding fast approaching for poor Jeanie. And the story gets darker and darker, with drug finds and underworld connections, moments when they all find themselves in very real danger, individuals who aren’t who they appear to be intent on thwarting their efforts, and a situation that gets closer to home than they’d ever expected – and with multiple suspects for that initial death on the dance floor.

The whole story is told at breakneck speed, lurching from one crisis to the next – and I particularly liked the way the frenetic pace was marked by a countdown, both from the murder and to the time of the perhaps ill-fated wedding. The characterisation is as fantastic as ever. There’s the really special friendship between those wonderful Agency ladies, every exchange laugh-out-loud but often really touching too – and a whole other layer with the relationships between the family members, the sisters truly horrendous until their family loyalties slowly come into play. The mystery at the story’s core is endlessly intriguing, a real page-turner with its multiple twists and turns, unexpected discoveries and clever bits of misdirection – but this time there’s a convincing family drama that plays out too, with a fair bit of emotion attached, and that was something I really enjoyed.

Everything I loved about the first book – although I’d say you’d be fine if you chose to read this one as a standalone, just to get the flavour – and the most perfect addition to a series I’m thoroughly enjoying. Sheer fun from its beginning to its unexpectedly emotional ending – and one I’d very much recommend.

I really enjoyed book 1 in this series so was looking forward to book 2!

Jeannie is about to marry fiance Tan so her 4 very different sisters are throwing her a hen weekend and she is hoping that best friends, and detective agency partners, Amber and Clio will help her stay sane throughout! But when Jeannie write literally trips over a dead body on the dancefloor. The weekend takes a very unexpected swerve and the Bad Girls Detective Agency are very well placed to get stuck into the investigation.

What follows is a good solid mystery with some great characters who I enjoyed seeing develop from book 1. A great addition to the series and I am looking forward to what comes next for agency!

Such a heartwarming, fun, cozy whodunit mystery with a pinch of complicated family and loving friends. I loved the dynamics between the family members and best friends. Everyone was distinguished and unique in their own way. Also fabulous that these characters are older.
The ending had me tearing up a bit.

A mystery on the English Coast. What a great setting and an mystery you won't want to put down. Will the friends be able to solve the mystery of the murder in this small English town?

What a fun, interesting, engaging and twisty read and one I couldn't put down. I love the story and the plot, the characters and the setting, they all worked so well together to bring me a great read. It had it all and more but best of all it made me laugh. It is an enjoyable, entertaining and fun read and I highly recommend this and all the books in this series.

Thank you NetGalley and Boldwood Books for giving me the opportunity to read and review this book.

I adored the first book in this series, and this second book did not disappoint. It is humorous and entertaining while still providing a really fun mystery.

Jeannie is (finally) marrying Tan, so her sisters and best friends have planned a hen weekend. This is a hen weekend to remember, especially given that Jeannie trips over a body at a club. The body is wearing one of Jeannie’s hen weekend t-shirts and it is not long before Jeannie and her best friends, Clio and Amber, are wrapped up in the investigation.

This series is just an absolute blast. It is lighthearted and throughout this book I was laughing out loud. The actual mystery was great and kept me guessing. I love that The Bad Girls Detective Agency was back at it, and I can’t wait for the next installment.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for a copy of this book. I leave this review voluntarily.

Favorite Quotes:

She and Nicola were the golden twins. They had apparently fought a fierce battle to come out of the womb first and hadn’t stopped since, their ferocious rivalry spurring both of them on to stratospheric heights. Childhood family games of Trivial Pursuit had frequently led to fisticuffs and Twister was banned in the Martin household for fear it would lead to a repeat of The Great Battle of Christmas 1990.

His dark beard was so impressive it deserved its own Instagram account.

She caught a glimpse of herself in the mirror and gasped in horror. Not so much a blushing bride as a victim of a zombie apocalypse.

Pen looked as if she had spent last night bathing in Evian while being massaged by angels. Being near her made Clio shrivel by comparison.

Pies devoured, she was grabbing handfuls of cakes now. Pink, white, honey-glazed, she didn’t care. She just kept shoving them in her mouth. Crumbs were flying around her like the confetti… At other tables, people guarded their cakes and their teapots, as if expecting her to attack.

Clio looked a little too enthusiastic for Amber’s liking. The kickboxing instructor had reported back to Amber that Clio scared him and asked whether she had any unresolved issues.

...it felt like they were strangers at a bad party before anyone finds the booze.


My Review:

I’ve had so much fun reading this series that I never want it to end. Katie Marsh has such a delightful wit that I want to immerse myself in her entire listing. Her brilliant and clever arrangements of words were buoyant, agile, and so keenly honed they kept a smooth reel flowing through my gray matter and often had me chuckling as well as barking aloud with laughter. In addition to the hilarious scenarios the trio fell into and the unfortunate hen party activity choices forced upon them, a well-plotted mystery was afoot that only the Bad Girls could have solved. I adore them all and am eagerly awaiting the next installment.

A rather frenetic mystery featuring best friends and fellow private investigators Amber, Clio and Jeanie. All the action takes place on Jeanie’s hen weekend. A murder at the club gets the investigators aiming to find the killer while Jeanie’s sisters have planned a hectic weekend of activities. Lots of twists and turns, and Jeanie’s emotions are all over the place when she thinks her fiancé is trying to back out of the wedding.

I had fun in reading the first novel in this series and had fun in reading the new one, a cozy mystery featuring a group of women sleuth the days before Jeanie's wedding.
It starts with a hen night from the hell that was imposed by Jeanie’s formidable sisters, including a terrible costume.
A body is found on the dancefloor while our heroines are having a sort of fun and the Bad Girls investigates.
There's a lot of humorous parts in this mystery and I enjoyed it even if the mystery took the backseat at times.
I was glad to catch up with the characters and laughed out loud. It's a fast and enjoyable read.
Recommended.
Many thanks to Boldwood Books and Rachel's Random Resources for this ARC, all opinions are mine

Jeanie’s hen weekend is being carefully managed by her sister Nicola, a headteacher with a clipboard and a printed schedule, Nicola’s twin sister Charlotte, the barrister, and younger sisters Emma, the artist, and Pen, the footballer. The comparisons between Jeanie, the mother of young twins, and her high-achieving sisters come to the fore in a chaotic hen party.
“They shone so bright Jeanie dwindled to nothingness.”
Just when her hen party could not be worse, Jeanie trips over the body of a young woman wearing one of her hen party t-shirts. She gets locked into a cupboard by a crazed barmaid who seems to have a hold over Jeanie’s fiancé Tan, and then her driver turns out to be the local drug queen, who threatens Jeanie’s children.
Will this wedding even happen?
Jeanie is not always likable. She is scared of her shadow, overacts, and screams at the slightest thing. She allows her family to dominate her, and her character arc is very weak.
This is an action-packed and fun mystery with a cast of women who care deeply about one another.

The second book with these 3 private detectives is a fast paced, hilarious and completely unrealistic! It is a fun read from start to finish; not just a murder investigation but a heart warming tale of love and friendship.

This is a riotous look at how women approach a hen weekend. Women of various generations as well to add that extra level of humour.
When a body turns up literally on the dance floor, it's a good job tje detective agency is on hand to help out.
There are some proper funny laugh out loud moments. I can picture women running in high heels with their feather boa streaming behind them.
This is the second in the series, I haven't read the first, but it didn't matter. I didn't enjoy this enough to go back and read book one though, and will look out for more from this author.

This a is lovely break from the darkness I usually read, with a mystery at the centre. I loved it.

2.5* Started of all right, but lost me sort of halfway through.

Jeanie’s on her hen do, which she seems to have been bullied into by her sisters. Sisters that are old enough to know that some things just ain’t funny anymore. Or weren’t ever. Anyway, Jeanie tries to make an escape and stumbles over a dead body.

With a day to go before Jeanie’s wedding, friends (and co-workers at the bad girl detective agency) Amber, Clio and Jeanie decide to investigate. Chapters are told alternating from their three perspectives.

At first I liked Amber and Jeanie, but Clio not so much. But both Clio and Jeannie seem a bit dense. Perhaps it was the advantage of seeing all three perspectives that made some twists obvious from a mile away, or perhaps the writer was a bit too obvious about things.

I stopped liking Jeanie when she became whiny, seriously disliked her when she started arguing stealing a car is a crime. She was fleeing quite possibly from the murderer and she was on her way to protect her children from criminals that might hurt them. And under those circumstances she wants to take the moral high ground and not take someone else’s car?

The book follows on 6 months after the initial book in the series – with Jeanie on her hen weekend before getting married to Tan, the father of her 18 month twins. There is the usual friends and family politics of such a weekend – but then there’s a murder on the dancefloor. (Interestingly the song of the same name by Sophie Ellis-Bextor appears to be a timeless classic, with my teenage kids enjoying it when out clubbing just like we did back in the 90s – even before Saltburn made it a global hit recently!)

Now I’m just going to throw up a little niggle at this point. The murder victim has the same surname as the crime family in the first book of the series, and it’s a distinctive surname, not a Smith or a Price – but NO ONE MENTIONS THIS AT ALL. I’m assuming this is an oversight – and the surname may even change before the book is published – but it seemed really odd to pedantic old me!

Since solving the murder of Clio’s ex husband in book one, the ladies have formed a detective agency – and use their skills to try and solve this new murder. There are lots of references to the first book – and characters that reappear (like Marg the septuagenarian drug dealer) but I think it would still stand alone, as enough of the back stories are explained if needed. However, I think reading ‘How Not To Murder Your Ex’ first would be a good plan (and it’s currently free to download if you have Prime!)

Whilst this is primarily a ‘cosy mystery’ – there are lots of other issues discussed too – family dynamics, relationship secrets and lies, female friendships to name but a few. The different characters – particularly Jeanie’s sisters – are well described and thought out, and the camaraderie between Jeanie, Clio and Amber is again evident. I also liked the storyline of Jeanie’s relationship with her own Mum.

Overall I really enjoyed this new book – another fun and escapist read – and I’m looking forward to seeing what the Bad Girls Detective Agency get up to next!

Thank you to Boldwood Books and Net Galley for my ARC in exchange for an honest review.