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A murder in a queue, how British, also very relatable.

I liked bits and pieces of this but as a whole? Not so much.

The murder was fun, then things slowed down way too much and I didn’t care if the murder would be solved or not. Then things picked up a bit with a trip. And I also liked Miss Dinmont but never really cared for inspector Alan Grant.

Also… a wee bit racist as it’s a book of a certain era, “… his grandmother had been Italian, and if he hadn't inherited the knife he had probably inherited the will to use on…”

The idea for the murder was good so I might go for another one, the murder is the reason it gets a 3 star.

My first book about the case, I went with the audio book and I liked the narrator Toby Longworth. Seems like a good capture of events and painting a picture of 1920’s England.

An American student is invited to spend Christmas in the Cotswold, we get to read her diary of the event and then what happened after.

I listened to this when baking gingerbread cookies and there were no surprises for me. And there were some TSTL action from the diary writer.

This was not for me but it wasn’t really bad.

The darkest crime yet, some trigger warnings for violence against women, sexual assault and rape.

Was I the only one that reacted to how many times "female/s" were used instead of woman/women? Sounded a little odd to me, maybe an historical thing?

To many people involved in the investigation for me.

I have a pet peeve in murder mysteries and that’s when all they do is talk, and even have a conversation with someone else about the conversation they just had… And I tend to gloss over romantic stuff because I’m not that interested.

But here, they have conversations about conversations and I liked it, and the best part of these books is the slow burn romance, what the heck?

3,5 rounding up.

Daisy is back and she and Alec have inherent a house and of course they find a body shortly after moving in, because of course.

This is the 17 book in the series and Alec is still second guessing his wife… it’s like he doesn’t know they are in a book.

Riley heads back to her hometown to help her childhood friend Caroline after her adoptive mother has passed away. Tragedy strikes again when Caroline's brother is found dead the day after the funeral.

Riley has been a librarian in the CIA for some reason, and been in the field? Maybe that plays a bigger part in the rest of the series?

It ended up feeling like just another cozy, nothing standing out.

Many seem to love these books and sure the MC was kind of fun but was there anything new here? No. It was an okay read. I might give the second book a try to see if it gets better.

Many love the Kitty bit but the milk part is even better.

Classic murder mystery, Dora finds a body in the library.

A decent start for a series, might pick the second book up to see if the series picks up pace.

A quick read but it doesn’t really stand out from other books in the genre. There’s no sense of urgency or danger for MC as she tries to find the killer.

Favorite character: Doro
Did I solve it: Yes, kind of

A paranormal cozy with a lot of swearing, everyone says fuck more than once. Fuck one way or another is mentioned 115 times, it’s not that kind of cozy. There’s also drug use and smoking in it, and I found the drunkenness a little tiring.

Favorite character: Grandma
Did I solve it: Nope

It's the little things that gets to me, like taking a cutting from a phalaenopsis...

I expected more from that duck...