Monday, March 16, 2020

Murder by the Book

Title: Murder by the Book
Author: Lauren Elliott
Published: October 30th 2018 by Kensington
Format: Mass Market Paperback, 304 pages
Genre: Cozyy Mystery
Series: A Beyond the Page Bookstore Mystery #1

I don’t know what is going on with cozy mysteries anymore. The newer series tend to have a whiney main character, and a homogenization of every other character, from every other book, that you have read.

Yada, yada, yada, leaves the big city for ancestral home, yada, yada, yada, opens a small business, yada, yada, yada, local is killed and a new friend is blamed. Suddenly the new resident turns into a super sleuth and in the meantime not only solves the crime of the century but in doing so, wins the hearts of the locals and possibly a new boyfriend. Yawn.

By the time that you get to the end, you honestly will not remember what you have read because it is identical to thirty other books in this genre. Not a keeper or a series that I will be continuing.

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