The 2nd in the Milverton Mysteries featuring Addison Harper, this is a series that's on the cosier, English Village end of the mystery scale. Although that setting is delivered with a dry, very wry tone, and a great sense of petty politics in a pretty village.
It's definitely...Read more
Another entrant in the extremely quirky, cozy Wyld Enchantment Woods series, ACE POST MORTEM TWIST is another one, as the blurb hints, for fans of non-romantic, paranormal, very cozy mysteries dripping with old lady snark, talking cats, and quirky characters.
Very quirky...Read more
THE QUEEN OF POISONS is book number 3 in The Marlow Murder Club, which is also now a TV series. Not at all surprising, it definitely has a "perfect for TV feeling" to the stories, it's quite good fun, and written by Robert Thorogood, the man behind the Death in Paradise series. ...Read more
THE TEA LADIES by Amanda Hampson is one of those interesting sort of novels that tippy toes a line between its cosy(ish) setting and some considerably more ruthless plot lines with a deftness that made for a really enjoyable reading experience.
Set in Sydney in 1965 in the...Read more
My fault this one. I've been enjoying a few crime fiction novels on the cosier end of the spectrum recently, but this one, alas, was too far into that world for my taste. Perfectly good novel for fans of that overtly English, slightly dotty, eccentric small village style of novel. Just not...Read more