A funny murder mystery with some fun twists, entertaining characters, and good writing. I haven't read the previous book in the series, so I plan to circle back. Recommended for cozy fans.

Thanks very much for the ARC for review!!

This is the second book in the Epiphany Bloom series and I’m glad to say it doesn’t disappoint..If you haven’t read the first in the series you can still read this book as a stand-alone there is enough back story to get to know the characters.

Epiphany ( Pip) is a bit of a disaster where employment is concerned, but she does make a great investigator .Flis her sister is a successful blogger albeit with hilarious vocabulary issues.

Pip is once again unemployed but manages to get a job at a vintage museum , whilst there she finds out the iconic dress from the film Pretty Woman is missing. So Pip starts to investigate and to try and reunite the missing dress with the museum.

The writing is free flowing and I like the characters I found Pip to be less farcical than in the first book, Pip has marginally matured and it suits her. The story was easy to read and an enjoyable cosy mystery. I look forward to the next in the series and to see how the characters progress.

Highly recommended!
Thanks to NetGalley and Bookouture for this arc copy.

You just know everything will not go to plan in Epiphany Bloom's life! Book 2 in this series offers another hilarious romp of a mystery. Epiphany does seem to attract odd job offers and this is no exception. An offer to work in a vintage clothing museum sounds perfect, but will it end differently than her many other jobs?

You would think that with the word murder in the title that the body would have shown up before the reader was halfway through the book. Or that murder was even relevant. Nope, not in The Museum Murder by the writing team of Kate Sidley and Gail Schimmel. The murder read more like an afterthought where the victim could have just as easily skipped town and the reader wouldn’t think twice about it. But no, it isn’t till the very end where it is slightly rehashed and the reader had already connected the dots.

Once again Epiphany “Pip” Bloom is in search of a job since her bumbling has landed her with no income and the rent due. Her farfetched snippets as to why the long string of previous positions hasn’t worked out are entertaining -- hamsters in onesies seem to be pushing it. By mere happenstance, Pip is in the Museum of Movie Memorabilia and Vintage Costumes when it occurs to Annabelle that she could use a new curator. Pip jumps at the idea not realizing what she will be doing is tracking down a missing iconic dress worn by non-other than Julia Roberts. How could no one see this going sideways quickly? With one month of training in her previous job as a private investigator, Pip sets out to find the dress and save the day. Little did she know that not everyone was telling the truth and that there is an actual underground full of baddies dealing in stolen Hollywood history.

This book is a bumbling Lucy and Ethyl escapade from the beginning. If it wasn’t for Flis and her mangling of words and terms, I would have put this book down long before the token body showed up.

Having read the first book in this series (The Kensington Kidnap), I was really looking forward to The Museum Murder and it didn’t disappoint.

We’re back with Epiphany Bloom (known as Pip), and she’s no longer with the private detective agency so she has to find another job quickly, before she owes her rather nice landlord too much rent.

Pip gets offered a job in a fashion museum but it’s a cover for finding out who has stolen a very valuable dress from the collection. Along with a murder, there are lots of laughs and light-hearted moments, like when Pip’s mum, who is away in South America, ships some llamas across to the UK and needs Pip to sign for them.

If you haven’t read the previous book, you can still read this as a standalone, but I’d highly recommend both books.

Thank you to NetGalley and Bookouture for an advance reader copy in return for an honest review.

This is the second book in this lovely and very amusing cozy mystery series staring the charmingly clumsy Epiphany (Pip) Bloom. In book two we find that Pip has list her job in true detective agency due to some disaster that she has caused and manages to land a job working as a vintage clothes museum.

The story is very light and easy to read and we see Pip having to try and solve the mystery of ‘That’ dress from Pretty Woman which has been stolen. Pip has to befriend colleagues at the museum to try and find out which one of them may be the culprit as it look like an inside job. This is in many cases very witty and the characters there are well written and there were many laugh out moments.

Along the way a murder occurs and Pip must enlist again the help of her flat mate and potential love interest with some undercover sleuthing and not so legal hacking. The relationship here is well written and building up to something that may be a lovely relationship and possibly a permanent detective duo.

As with book 1 Flis, blogger and sister of Pip, is hilariously funny using strange words and phrases which are close to but not quite correct. Reminiscent of the great Del Boy and laughter whenever she makes an appearance.

Great lighthearted read and although this is book 2 of a series and I would highly recommend both this can also be read as a standalone.

I look forward to seeing more of these and look forward to meeting the characters again in book 3.

Thank you to Netgalley, the publisher and the author for the opportunity to read this book in exchange for an honest review.

Katie Gayle's The Museum Murder is the second book in the series about Epiphany Bloom. I read The Kensington Kidnap, the first in the series, and was left feeling bemused. I don't think the second book has changed that. I like Pip - and her flatmate Tim - and the cat family - but I can't quite believe in her or the series of coincidences that lead to solving of the mystery. But the book was fun nonetheless.

This was as fun as the first book of the series. Pip was as amusing as before and so were the other characters. They were quirky and delightful. I loved the interactions especially if Pip is involved. There were a couple of moments where I was chuckling at her antics.
The mystery seemed a bit under developed in this one. I was mostly reading for the fun of it rather than the suspense.
Overall, the plot was a bit disappointing but the characters made up for it.
I would continue reading this light hearted cozy mystery series.
3.5 stars rounded up to 4 for all the LOL moments.

This is an amazing, delightful, and utterly amusing cozy mystery. After reading and loving the first book in this series, I was excited to read the second book. It quickly became my favorite cozy mystery. Could see the growth of the characters and entertainment also increased. Glad mummy made an appearance at last, though almost at the end of the book. Have been waiting to see her. Hopefully, more of her and antics could be in future books.

Along with Pip, the secondary characters were quirky, and helped take the amusement to the next level with their antics. Unable to keep her job for more than a few days, Pip was looking for a new job after she had been terminated from the previous job for her impersonation. This time, the task of finding an iconic dress that's been missing from the vintage museum falls in the lap of Pip.

Despite having murder in the title, it happens after the first half completed. This didn’t have any impact on my enjoyment as I loved the Pip’s investigation approaches and tactics more than the mystery. Her interactions with her colleagues were rib tickling.

Every lead Pip finds takes her to a dead end. She has to re-evaluate her suspects and come up with another approach. Sometimes, she finds herself going in a full circle, I found this pretty funny. The person bumped off might be the least on the potential victims list of the reader. This looked a little unconvincing and underdeveloped to me. Admire Pip’s tenacity in finding missing things by not knowing anything to proceed solving the case and wouldn’t stop despite having to jump through a lot of hoops.

Every page had me chuckling and was laughing crazily from the moment the museum director made an appearance.

I would highly recommend this if you are looking for a light hearted and funny cozy mystery. I can’t wait to read the next book.

Thanks to NetGalley and Bookouture for providing a digital copy of the book in exchange for an honest review.

Thank you NetGalley for the advanced reader copy of The Museum Murder by Katie Gayle in exchange for an honest review. Pip lives with a cat and her two kittens, Tim who is her flatmate and landlord. This was a great story full of adventures. For a klutzy lady, she has a generous heart and loves to solve puzzles. I enjoyed this story. It was exciting, funny and a bit odd to an American reader. Thanks for the fun book.

Epiphany Bloom is a walking disaster. She has trouble keeping a job because she keeps making mistakes she justifies by saying they could have happened to anyone. She was successful in her previous job at a firm of private investigators, until she made a crucial spelling mistake on a background check, which got her fired. When she arrives at a job interview at a fashion museum specializing in film, television, and celebrity items, she notices that the centrepiece of the exhibition, the red dress worn by Julia Roberts in "Pretty Woman", is a fake. Because of her experience as a private investigator, she is hired to find the real dress before the owner returns and learns it is missing.

This book is completely delightful. I usually associate cosy mysteries with small villages, not bustling cities like London, but this has all the trappings of a true cosy mystery: the quirky cast of characters, the bloodless murder, and the amateur detective. The tone is one of heightened realism, where the people and events are just a bit too eccentric to be quite real, which is one of the greatest charms of the book. Epiphany “Pip” Bloom is a great main character. It is hard to describe her because she is a grown woman (I think the story says she is thirty-five), and from hints she drops here and there she has led quite the eventful life, but in many ways she has the guilelessness of a twelve-year-old. She reminded me strongly of Alexis Rose of "Schitt’s Creek", especially the way in that she’s always saying (thinking) “when this thing happened” followed by some outlandish detail, yet the story is never mentioned again. The secondary characters who form the pool of suspects are endearing, I’m almost sad that if there is another book in this series Pip will likely have lost this job and we will not see them again.

The mystery is pretty straightforward, but there are enough red herrings and twists to keep things interesting, not to mention the death that Pip suspects was a murder, which ups the stakes considerably. There is a hint of romance, but that portion of the plot is not resolved in this book, so it is likely to be a very slow burn across multiple books. "The Museum Murder" was the second book in this series, it is very likely that I will go back and read the first one, and I am very interested in reading the next adventure of Epiphany Bloom.

Wow...I never imagined using the words 'absolutely hilarious' and 'murder mystery' to describe the same novel. But that day too has come, people. The Museum Murder is a cozy mystery and a laugh riot rolled into one.

Newly out of a job, Epiphany 'Pip' Bloom is unexpectedly thrust into a new case involving a missing dress from the Museum of Movie Memorabilia and Vintage Clothing. Using the training from her previous job as a private detective, Pip goes about deftly interviewing and ruling out possible suspects from among the museum staff. She soon realises that the world of vintage clothing is a rather cut throat business when one of her contacts turn up dead.

This was such a refreshing read. Pip's witty inner monologues and her sister Flis's mangled vocabulary had me snorting in laughter.
Add to this, her mother's llama drama and it was just downright funny. Though I did think the author was trying too hard with the character of Henreitta butchering Pip's name. That was almost too similar to Flis's vocabulary mess-ups.

Overall, a fun read. The mystery was solved pretty quickly and the ending was a comedy of errors.
Thanks to Netgalley and Bookouture for providing a digital copy of the book in exchange for an honest review.

The second entry in this series is just as much fun as the first. Oh to live the life of Pip Bloom where she makes her way through life trying to do her best and hold down a job while lucking out, or unlocking out, along the way.

A fun series focused on London based Epiphany Bloom. Daughter of a comfortable family that has been forced to work to avoid her Mother’s lectures on handouts and financial assistance from the Bank of Mom. It’s a great escape from any day, but especially during the Pandemic…a great way to travel to London for a bit.

The Museum Murder is the second book in the Epiphany Bloom mysteries series. Once again, our hapless detective Pip, is drawn into the criminal world. This book is a quick and entertaining read where we welcome back some of our favourite characters from the first book namely, Tim, Jimmy and Pip’s sister Flis who had a great habit of mixing up her words. An enjoyable read from start to finish. Thank you to NetGalley, Bookouture and the author for the chance to review.

This is a very cute and witty novel. I read it quickly in two days due to the author’s easy writing style. The characters and plot were both well developed and fun! Very entertaining and one I highly recommend for any mystery lovers who want a good quick read!