![]() Bea Jordan is a likeable main character and I enjoyed seeing a familiar environment – a supermarket – through the eyes of an insider. ![]() I often find difficulty suspending disbelief for amateur sleuths, but didn’t suffer from that problem here. It’s very much a slice of life book at the cosy end of the genre, and there’s nothing wrong with that. The Cost of Living is YA author Rachel Ward’s first foray into adult fiction. But when one of the Costsave employees is attacked on her way home from work, Bea can’t help doing some investigating of her own. She has concerns about a harassed young mother, married to a possibly abusive husband with a roving eye, and worries about elderly customers who can’t afford all their shopping, but Bea is also a pragmatist who knows she can’t solve everyone’s problems for them. Variations from routine upset and frighten her, but by contrast, Bea wants to branch out and occasionally try something different, even if it’s only an unusual fruit that she’s not eaten before.īea’s a sharp observer, and learns a lot just from talking to her customers and watching them in the store. Bea lives at home with her agoraphobic mother, whose life effectively stopped when her husband died and since then, she’s shut herself away, living life by a strict routine that dictates that they eat the same thing on a given day every week. She enjoys her job and the customers like her. ![]() Bea Jordan works on the checkout in her local supermarket, Costsave. ![]()
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