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All Body Bags and No Knickers

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On the annual Ghost Night when spirits wander, newlyweds Catherine Roxborough and her partner Chance Yang never imagined death would stalk their summery seaside destination.

Excited to meet her husband's family on their honeymoon, Catherine crosses paths with new acquaintances, young and old, as they journey from London to northern coastal China. However, the couple's celebrations are marred when ghosts of the past come back to haunt the Yangs, as three naked dead bodies are discovered in a nearby seaside derelict - three people the honeymooners had only just met.

Was it murder, an act of revenge, or an affair gone wrong? The answer to these questions may hit closer to home than Catherine could ever expect or than Chance is willing to admit. As the couple chases the clues, the bride realizes that her new husband may have ghastly secrets to hide.

As the mystery unravels and the pair becomes entangled in a decade-old investigation, Catherine faces a dilemma: stand by her partner or expose the truth and implicate a beloved family member. But amidst the turmoil, only one thing remains certain: the path they choose could forever reshape their lives.

What readers say about All Body Bags and No Knickers

"With memorable characters, immersive descriptions, and astonishingly clever sleights of hand, All Body Bags and No Knickers is a literary mystery, a travel guide, and a delicious thriller standing on each other's shoulders in a trench coat." — IndieReader

"The book's ability to transition between sorrowful and humorous moments provides readers with an emotional rollercoaster, adding depth and unpredictability to the plot. This is, without a doubt, an enticing page-turner that keeps readers hooked from beginning to end." — OnlineBookClub

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    • Kirkus

      November 15, 2023
      In Ruckus' mystery novel, sleuths Chance Yang and his wife, Catherine, take on a murder case rooted in the deep past. In a prologue, an unnamed man is in a hospital; his unnamed sister has died after leaving him cryptic notes urging him to find her killer. The story proper begins in London, with Chance and Catherine's friends celebrating the opening of Chance's restaurant. Chance and Catherine marry and head to China for their honeymoon, where the British-born Catherine can meet Chance's family. Interspersed with their largely pleasant time there are flashback passages from 2005 hinting at something dire happening at a summer camp, accompanied by desperate but disembodied pleas for help. Back in the present, a series of violent deaths occur at an abandoned building site near the place where Chance and Catherine are staying. They're galvanized into action, and the duo piece together what happened back in the past to result in these deaths almost 20 years later. This is a strange book: Chance and Catherine are likable enough, a pair in the tradition of crime-solving husband-and-wife teams such as Nick and Nora Charles, but the action in the first few chapters, set in London, has almost nothing to do (save for the presence of An, Chance's cousin) with the narrative that unfolds in China--the important part of the plot. Some developments feel like non sequiturs; readers will learn a lot about Chinese cuisine and customs ("By the time Chance returned, the girl was teaching Catherine tongue twisters and jingles in Chinese. 'Try this. Hong fenghuang, fen fenghuang, fenhong fonghuang, huang fenghuang. This means red phoenix, pink phoenix, pinkish-red phoenix, and yellow phoenix'"). There is a leisurely pace to the proceedings that seems indulgent--at one point, Chance and Catherine both have colonoscopies (there's a fun date), leaving readers to wonder what their medical procedures add to the story. But such things are a matter of taste, and there are surely readers who like to go with the flow, as it were. A somewhat odd caper with appealing leads and eccentric structural issues.

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