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Rub-a-Dub-Dub
Rub-a-Dub-Dub
Series · 3 books · 2018-2019
By
Nathan Burrows
Books in series
#0.5
Three Maids in a Tub
2019
If your best friend offered you a free weekend on a cruise ship, you’d go – wouldn’t you?
This novella introduces Emily Underwood, Norfolk's most unfortunate food inspector. Currently suspended from her job as an inspector at the Food Standards Agency after an incident which saw Delia Smith's flagship restaurant closed down, Emily is offered a free weekend on a cruise ship. She jumps at the chance, but things aren’t quite as they seem. An alcoholic broken-hearted Captain, an ex-Army Colonel with a wandering eye, and Emily’s gastro-intestinal emergencies all come together in a hysterical read. Lots of sex, lots of booze, and people from Norfolk. What could possibly go wrong?
A companion piece to the
Rub-a-Dub-Dub
series, this novella will make you think very carefully about ever going on a cruise. Or anywhere near Great Yarmouth.
#1
The Butcher
2018
She thought it was pork. She was wrong. The first time Norwich’s most hapless food inspector, Emily Underwood meets butcher Frank Pinch, he’s not got much at all in his display counters. But what he does have is a rather unusual plan to restock his shelves. The next time they bump into each other, he’s won an award for his sausages but is running out of meat. Can Frank keep up production of his unusually tasty sausages? Will Emily discover the source of Frank’s award wining meat? And what will happen the next time she tries to inspect his butchers shop? Book 1 in the Rub-a-Dub trilogy, this deliciously British dark comedy will change the way you look at sausages forever.
#3
The Candlestick Maker
2019
Is he a fitness instructor? Or a fatness instructor? Jack Kennedy is a fitness instructor with a difference. He’s got an unhealthy obsession with other people’s weight, and not in a good way. He also makes candlesticks. Inept Food inspector, Emily Underwood, is still having her ups and downs – both at work and at home. Emily’s relationship with her mostly harmless boyfriend, Andy, is on rocky ground. Then her flat mate, Catherine, loses her job over an unexpected live stream of the new boardroom table being christened. Things start to go rapidly downhill for the intrepid trio, but when Catherine meets a nice young man at her local gym, they go from bad to worse. Can Emily uncover Jack Kennedy’s dark past before it’s too late for Catherine? Will Andy finally man up and fight for what he loves? And why is Jack making an enormous candlestick in his workshop at Hill Top Farm? The final book in the Rub-a-Dub-Dub Trilogy, this hilarious dark British comedy will make you want to count your calories very carefully indeed. This book was previously published under the name 'Nathan Burrows'.
Author
Nathan Burrows
Author · 18 books