Thank you to Heather at Overview Media for inviting me to participate in this blog tour and providing me with a copy of this book and promotional materials for the tour in exchange for an honest review.

Just like The Meal of Fortune, Tinker Tailor Soldier Chef is one of those books where you want to read the blurb twice to make sure you read it correctly because it all seems just a little bit absurd. Fortunately, the blurb is correct, and the absurdity works well, making Tinker Tailor Soldier Chef a fun and memorable story.

This book switches between the perspective of three different characters, Anna from MI5, Dermot Jack, a celebrity agent, and DI Mark Henwell from the MET. Anna and Dermot are characters that the reader was introduced to in the first book in this series, but Henwell is new. I liked all three of these characters. I enjoyed reading more about Anna and Dermot, and I was glad to see what they had been up to since the previous book. Henwell was also a likeable enough character, and I could understand why he always seemed to be frustrated with his superiors. I also liked meeting the cast of side characters in this book, which added a lot to the story.

The plot of this book is absolutely ridiculous, which made this book fun to read. There’s someone in London killing off a bunch of celebrities, and MI5 thinks it might be part of a bigger terrorist plot. The three main characters, who frankly have no business even knowing each other, work together to see if they can crack the case before it’s too late. Unfortunately, I figured out who was behind the plot relatively early on, but I still enjoyed the action and shenanigans leading up to the final scene.

Overall, it was nice to read something fun and memorable. I also want to point out that if you haven’t read the first book in this series, you can totally read it without being confused or worrying about spoilers because anytime the crimes from the first book are mentioned, they’re met with a comment about how they’re classified.