Mmmm I feel bad that I am unable to be more positive about "Politics is Murder"; I enjoyed the concept of a Westminster "insider" getting caught up in corruption and murder, but I just felt that it was a tad too extreme to be taken seriously. The Charlie's Angels idea was frankly ludicrous.

But I did enjoy the read, it kept me entertained but I felt absolutely no sympathy or empathy for any of the characters, goodies or baddies, and I didn't feel that we got inside Charlotte's head well enough to make her a sympathetic character.

My thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for this ARC.

Having never read Nick Tyrone before, I had no idea what I was in for when I began reading this, once I had grasped this was a hilarious political satire bursting with black humour with an unforgettable anti-heroine, the beautiful Charlotte Heard, at its heart, I was all in. The ambitious, tenacious and resourceful Charlotte is one of very few women in the male dominated world of Westminster think tanks, she is a senior team member at the centre-right think tank Eligium. Her long term dream is to become a MP, a dream that seems to come one step nearer when it looks she is about to be offered a lucrative CEO post at a new think tank, just as Eligium is closed down by its trustees. So imagine her horror when Chief Inspector Watkins and DCI Sheila Murray come to her home, suspecting her of the murder of Lord Duncan. On CCTV, the police have Charlotte's doppelganger doing the killing.

Events take a turn for the worse with another killing, someone is hellbent on framing Charlotte for both murders. There is no way Charlotte is going to take this lying down, she is going to hunt this person down and mete out her own form of justice, helped by the trusted and loyal Kate, Violet and Aashi, aka Charlie's Angels. We are in a Britain that has gone off the rails with a referendum where the people have approved the bonkers scheme of building a bridge to Norway, which is an impossible mission, but hey ho. Tyrone thrusts us into the world of a Tory political administration, many of whom Charlotte has close contact with. From the House of Lords, Cabinet ministers and MPs, the privileged Tories that the author sends up are asinine, malevolent, manipulative, ruthless, liars, double dealing, hypocrites, corrupt, sexist and racist scumbags, so barely any stretch from reality, although Labour do not come off much better. Amidst the intrigue and killing, Charlotte surprisingly finds love, whilst facing the dangerous and menacing presence of Russian gangsters and oligarchs.

Tyrone has created a charismatic and eye opening protagonist in Charlotte, a woman that you would mess with at your peril, and I adored her supporting act of Charlie's Angels. By the time I had reached the end with its thrilling finale at the Houses of Parliament, I had had such a whale of time that I want to spend more time in her company, so I hope Tyrone has plans to write another novel with her at its centre! This is light, fun and entertaining crime fiction that is likely to appeal to many in search of the comic and the zany. Many thanks to Headline for an ARC.