{"id":351500,"date":"2025-12-19T14:43:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T14:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/books\/review-the-nancys-by-r-w-r-mcdonald\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T14:43:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T14:43:18","slug":"review-the-nancys-by-r-w-r-mcdonald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=351500","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW: \u2018The Nancys\u2019 by R.W.R McDonald"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\u2018The Nancys and the Case of the Missing Necklace\u2019 introduces Tippy Chan, her Uncle Pike and his boyfriend Devon.<\/h2>\n

\u2018We need to look for the head,\u2019 I said.
Devon swung around. His and Uncle Pike\u2019s eyes bugged out at me.
\u2018What?\u2019 I said. \u2018Isn\u2019t it our biggest clue?\u2019
My uncle tapped his lip. \u2018She does have a point.\u2019
\u2018Oh my God, are you serious? We can\u2019t have Tippy seeing that.\u2019
\u2018Tippy, you\u2019re not to look at the head.\u2019
I shrugged. \u2018Sure, I don\u2019t mind.\u2019 Part of me would have liked to have seen what it looked like, though.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s it about?<\/h3>\n

I\u2019m stealing the blurb for this one:<\/p>\n

Tippy Chan is eleven years old, and she lives in a small town in a very quiet part of New Zealand \u2013 the town her Uncle Pike escaped as a <\/em>teenager, the moment he got a chance. Now Pike is back with his new boyfriend Devon to look after Tippy while her mum is on a Christmas cruise.<\/em><\/p>\n

Tippy can\u2019t get enough of her uncle\u2019s old Nancy Drew books. She wants to be Nancy and is desperate to solve a real mystery. So, when her teacher\u2019s body is found beside Riverstone\u2019s only traffic light, it looks like Tippy\u2019s moment has arrived. She and her minders form The Nancys, a secret detective club.<\/em><\/p>\n

But what starts as a bonding and sightseeing adventure quickly morphs into something far more dangerous. A wrongful arrest, a close call with the murderer, and an intervention from Tippy\u2019s mum all conspire against The Nancys. But regardless of their own safety, and despite the constant distraction of questionable fashion choices in the town that style forgot, The Nancys know only they can stop the killer from striking again.<\/em><\/p>\n

Whatever the cost\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

What\u2019s it like?<\/h3>\n

Silly. Camp. Ultimately very sweet with a suitable amount of realism despite all the daft chat and feel good moments (some relationships can be fixed in the closing pages, but some are just too broken). Despite the Nany Drew references, this is not a read for children: Tippy\u2019s minders are quite fond of the f word, and the c word, though Devon does thoughtfully reduce one character\u2019s rather rude epithet to \u2018sea-hag\u2019. When they aren\u2019t using inappropriate language they are making inappropriate jokes, though, thankfully, many of these pass over Tippy\u2019s head.<\/p>\n

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Devon wrote Suspect<\/em> and underneath wrote Sally Horner<\/em>. \u2018No,\u2019 Uncle Pike said. \u2018It\u2019s not Sally. I refuse to believe it.\u2019 \u2026
\u2018Okay, it\u2019s not her.\u2019 Devon underlined her name twice.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Despite a theoretically rather gory murder, this is a cosy crime novel where we never doubt that Tippy and her Uncles will survive, despite their penchant for ignoring police advise and exposing their niece to some very questionable situations<\/p>\n

Slightly frustratingly, the murderer is obvious from very early on, but then again, this isn\u2019t really a book about that: the crime is just the vehicle required to encourage Tippy, Pike and Devon to entertain readers by vandalising Tippy\u2019s mum\u2019s property in the name of sleuthing and \u2018investigate\u2019 by eyeing up suspects (Devon), making dirty jokes (Pike) and listening to adults while pretending to play games on her mobile (Tippy). Oh, and there\u2019s a beauty show finale that would definitely appear near the end of a rom-com or on a \u2018and then everybody clapped\u2019 Facebook page.<\/p>\n

Final thoughts<\/h3>\n

This is a fun and ultimately sentimental tale of sleuthing, slinking and skulking, which kicks off a new series featuring Tippy Chan and her uncles. Expect increasingly ridiculous antics from both the sleuths and their prey alongside a few genuinely sad moments and a very sweet denouement.<\/p>\n

\u2018The Nancys\u2019,
R.W.R. McDonald,
2025, Orenda books, paperback<\/h6>\n
Many thanks to the publisher and Anne Cater\u2019s Random Things Tours for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review and a spot on the blog tour.<\/h5>\n

Want to know more? Then follow the tour:<\/p>\n

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