This is a raucous trip through a hen weekend where one wedding party meets a stag party and...a murder happens. So I was hoping for this book to be more of a mystery and less of a cozy mystery on steroids. I love the title because I can't help thinking of the early 2000 song of the same name. I did read book one in the Bad Girls Detective Agency series ( How Not to Murder Your Ex) and there were a lot of throwbacks to that, so this isn't 100% a standalone book.

I do love that this was multigenerational and we got the hilarity of women of a certain age partying with their mom. There was a great relationship between sisters and friends. There is humor, but I felt like I was watching slapstick the whole time, which is fine and you might enjoy this if you need a quick, fun read, but I like my mysteries to be a tad more serious.

Thanks to NetGalley and Boldwood Books for an advance reader's copy.

I really enjoyed the first in the series, and was super excited to receive a NetGalley widget for this sequel!

It was just as good as the first, with a couple of plot twists that I wasn’t expecting mixed with the feel-good vibes of the friendships between the 3 main characters. It was pretty funny and I was glad that it had a happy ending too 🥰

I thought this was a really fun cozy mystery. This is the first book I have read by author, Katie Marsh, and I loved her attention to detail and the way she described her characters. I thought she developed her characters really well. I also love it when chapters are told for different points of view, I find that it allows the story to be told in a different way and for multiple events to happen simultaneously. I loved that I wasn't able to fully predict what was going to happen in this book. It made me want to keep reading!

This book was a pleasant surprise. I hadn’t read the first in the series, but everything was established clearly enough that it worked fine as a standalone read as well. The writing excelled at expressing emotion and inner monologues, though the pacing was a little inconsistent. The mystery itself was fun, and I found myself surprised several times throughout.

The action and suspense in this book gave it a lot of flavor and pushed it from three stars to four for me. Some of the chase scenes were a little cartoonish, but it was all so much fun that I didn’t mind. On the other side of the spectrum, the complicated familial relationships were also handled well, and I found their struggles very relatable and nuanced. Fans of chick lit and mysteries that are just suspenseful enough to not be cozy will love this book.

Many thanks to NetGalley and Boldwood Books for this ARC. This is my honest review.

4/5 A “killer” party in every sense of the word.

This one was just not for me... I gave it a try but the story did not grab my attention or get me invested. I gave up after 7 chapters.

Thank you for the opportunity to read earlY!

Oh my. This book. Folks. Really don't know what to do with it because on the one hand, it's Katie Marsh, but on the other hand...
I know Katie Marsh as an author of beautiful, emotional, powerful stories. I don't know her as an author of cosy crime. I actually didn't know that "Murder on the Dancefloor" is a second book in the series, I somehow missed the first book, but as soon as I've seen Katie Marsh on the cover, I requested it.

I know one thing. Katie Marsh should have stick to writing beautiful, emotional, powerful love stories. Because this book, there was everything wrong. Wooden characters, wooden and forced and simple plot, convenient situations. It tries to be funny sometimes, this story, but tis is absolutely not my kind of funny, it felt so forced. This whole story felt so amateurish, it lacked in depth and the mystery didn't held me interested.

The only thing that was done well in this book was the friendship and family relationships. There was this feeling of girls power, of the fact that the women can do anything and they will survive and achieve their goals, no matter what. Other than that..., well, not for me.

This is the second in the #badgirlsdetectiveagency series …

It picks up with everyone being out in a club for Jeannie’s hen night , not the night Jeannie had planned but as always due to one of her sister’s commitments a sticky sweaty club in town rather than a nice beach abroad was chosen !

I cried with laughter on and off through this book , as worn the first in the series how not to murder your ex .

All was going well until a body turns up on the dance floor , the woman is wearing a hen party t shirt but the ladies quickly realise she is not part of the group !

Again deeply interwoven are her best friends who make up the detective agency , Amber the clear headed one , Clio who is even more impulsive in this one ! Jeannie is still little miss sunshine herself .

Her relationship with Tan has been strained he has been acting strangely not where he says he will be , will this wedding even happen ……

Believable characters great storyline and a splash of humour , I loved this book and look forward to the next !

Thank you netgalley 💛 Just brilliant 🤩

When you stumble across a body on your hen night out, not only do you have four strong willed sisters to contend with but a murder.
Conflicting family dynamics as well as working with your two besties to solve who dunnit.
A feel good book that will make you smile despite the murders.
I will be looking out for more books by Katie

Madcap Mystery..
The second in the Bad Girls Detective Agency series of cosy crime and a hen do for Jeanie turns fatal when a girl drops dead on the dance floor. The fact that she is wearing one of Jeanie’s special pink hen tee shirts most definitely does not bode well. Can the detective agency solve this crime and convince the police that they are not involved before the wedding bells are due to chime? A madcap, frothy mystery with an eclectic and amiable cast of characters, a pacy plot and a narrative bubbling with humour.

This is the second book in the Bad Girl
Detective series, but can be read as a standalone story.

Friends Clio and Amber are back with Jeanie for her hen night at a local nightclub, organised by her controlling and overachieving sisters, who force her to dress up in a very unflattering My Little Pony outfit! When she thinks things can"t get worse a body is found on the dance floor and the night goes from cringy to downright dangerous!

This is a fun light "whodunnit"! The storyline is a a bit mad and chaotic in places, but it keeps you guessing until the end. I also can't get the title song out of my head!

Not usually my type of book but I loved it couldn't put it down. Jeanie is having a hen weekend arranged by her sisters and best friends Clio and Amber when she stumbles across a dead body in the club they're in

Another enjoyable read in the Bad Girls series. The relationships between the three friends and detectives is the main strength of the series for me. The characters are all well drawn and have their own skills and personalities, and the tight friendship between them is appealing. I also love reading about older characters who are feisty and fun!

This is the next in the series after How Not To Murder Your Ex, but you don't need to have read the first to enjoy this one.
Another great book by Katie Marsh, it is funny, heart felt and I love the friendship between the three main characters.

This is the second in the series but you don't need to have read it first as the set-up of the Bad Girls' Detective Agency and the friendship between Clio, Amber and Jeanie is made clear.

Tremendous fun - pacy, well written and with three characters you can really root for.

Loved the set-up: when you're on your hen night and not really enjoying it, thinking things can't get any worse - and then you find a dead body in the middle of the dance floor...

I did guess the murderer (because I write cosy crime myself) but the twists worked nicely and Katie placed the clues well. The relationships between the three protagonists and Jeanie's family are particularly good; I'm looking forward to the next in the series. Five stars.

Thank you to Netgalley and Boldwood for the E-arc.

Murder on the Dancefloor is the second book in Katie Marsh's cosy crime series featuring our three would-be-detectives, Jeanie, Clio and Amber.

It's six months after the events of How Not To Murder Your Ex, and it's Jeanie's hen weekend. Not, of course, that the event is going to run smoothly. When one of the nightclub guests is found dead, the three all resolve to find the culprit.

As with the first book, humour and the bitter-sweet reality of life combine to find our characters in some very awkward situations as Jeanie frantically tries to evade her overbearing family and fears for her coming wedding, whereas Amber is still determined to get one over on Marcus, her former boss and the reason she's no longer in the police. Clio, too, is coming to terms with her daughter being at university and all the changes this has brought to her life.

I really enjoyed the storyline and the resolution of the mystery. Between the three of them, they all manage to get into some unfortunate scrapes and while there has been a murder that needs solving, this still has very much a feel-good and life-affirming quality to it. If there can be such a thing, this is a joyful cosy murder mystery.

The slightly different presentation of this novel does mean we don't get to 'hate' on Clio's ex-husband as we did in book 1 (and we all hated him), and perhaps that is a little bit of a miss, but does mean we get more of our three heroes.

A fun, entertaining, funny mystery. I look forward to reading more.

My thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for my review copy. #BT #BB

Book two of the Bad Girls Detective Agency and it was great! If you didn’t read book one, you could read this one as a stand alone.
I love the relationship between all the ladies. This is a quick read and I love the different point of views.
This would definitely be considered as a fun read and I highly recommend.

Thank you NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Katie Marsh's novels are like the younger funkier cousin of cosy crime! Amber runs the Bad Girls Detective Agency along with best mates Clio and Jeanie, and this time they are thrust right into the action when a girl is quite literally murdered on the dancefloor. Jeanie is already not particularly enjoying her hen night, and this really doesn't help!

What's really great about these books is that the Bad Girls don't always get it right. There's quite a lot of chasing down the wrong leads, or getting themselves into dangerous scrapes, and plenty of wine! The stories are fun to read, completely unpredictable and an excellent twist on the cosy crime genre. Long may the series continue!

This is the second installment of the Bad Girls Detective Agency series. Unfortunately I came into this book looking for a mystery and found myself instead in a mostly romance novel. I felt like the plot dragged due to lots of fumbling around in very silly situations that lasted just a little bit too long. This one wasn't my favorite but I will continue to follow along with the author.

Murder on the Dancefloor is the second in the series but it totally stands by itself. During Jeanie's hen weekend, the party stumbles over a dead body. As part of the Bad Girls Detective Agency, Jeanie and her friends take on the case with some light assistance from her sisters, mother, and other folks. The mystery itself isn't too hard to predict and resolves itself all in a rush at the end while relying on some fairly standard tropes. But, in many ways, the key mystery is how people in relationships (whether fiancees, siblings, etc.) misunderstand each other, themselves, and the relationship too. And, on that front, Murder on the Dancefloor is a satisfying, enjoyable read.

Katie Marsh’s new mystery, Murder On the Dancefloor runs the gamut of human emotion, but mainly sticks to being a reflection of the main protagonist’s personality: sunny and silly fun!

We walk in on everyone gathering for Jeanie’s hen night, that was unfortunately planned by her sister instead of her besties. Her sister googled the word fun to get ideas for this whole shindig, and then both of Jeanie’s sisters dressed her up as a furry My Little Pony for the crazy night of fun at the local dive bar, complete with “fun” male member pens and coordinated t-shirts.

Because of the amount of alcohol that was consumed for everyone to get through their weekend shenanigans, when the bride-to-be trips over a dead body on the dance floor, drama, high-jinks, and misunderstandings abound while the Bad Girls Detective Agency decide to try to solve this murder.

But will Jeanie ever make it up the aisle?


Thank you to NetGalley and Boldwood Books for this ARC!!