Author: Kate Young
Published: September 7th 2021 by Crooked Lane Books
Format: Kindle, Hardcover, 336 pages
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Source: My thanks to Netgalley and the Publisher for an opportunity to read an advanced copy of this book.
Series: Jane Doe Book Club Mystery #2
First Sentence: The sun was low in the clear blue sky as I locked up the office.
From the Publisher: What better time than Halloween to dig into a bracing discussion of a diabolical murder mystery? And what better choice for the Jane Doe Book Club than Agatha Christie’s Crooked House? Lyla Moody and her friends are soon embroiled in debate over whether the heroine’s actions are particularly believable. But not long after the meeting, sleepy Sweet Mountain, Georgia, is rocked by a murder that uncannily echoes the novel in question.
When Lyla and her grandmother arrive at the charity event that Lyla’s mother is hosting, they barely have time to hang up their fall jackets before they stumble upon a body in the library. Leonard Richardson, it seems, was robbed and then hit over the head with a brass candlestick–which throws suspicion on Harper Richardson, his young widow and a friend of the Jane Does.
Lyla and the rest of the Jane Does pool their prodigious intellects to clear Harper’s name. Peculiarly, all of the clues seem to have been lifted directly from the plot of Crooked House. But as Lyla probes the pages of Christie’s classic whodunnit for hints on catching the killer, she uncovers secrets from her mother’s past–secrets that suggest that Lyla’s own house may be crooked as well.
My Opinion: Another book by Kate Young where the murderer was not obvious from the beginning, and since the plot was based on Agatha Christie's Crooked House, oddly, it all made sense.
As each character spends their time in the spotlight, it is up to Lyla Moody to slowly remove who it could not be, only to leave the reader with the possible. With a last-minute twist, and only one remaining left-field character, you are left scratching your head and wondering why it couldn’t be …… all the clues were there from the beginning.
From the Publisher: What better time than Halloween to dig into a bracing discussion of a diabolical murder mystery? And what better choice for the Jane Doe Book Club than Agatha Christie’s Crooked House? Lyla Moody and her friends are soon embroiled in debate over whether the heroine’s actions are particularly believable. But not long after the meeting, sleepy Sweet Mountain, Georgia, is rocked by a murder that uncannily echoes the novel in question.
When Lyla and her grandmother arrive at the charity event that Lyla’s mother is hosting, they barely have time to hang up their fall jackets before they stumble upon a body in the library. Leonard Richardson, it seems, was robbed and then hit over the head with a brass candlestick–which throws suspicion on Harper Richardson, his young widow and a friend of the Jane Does.
Lyla and the rest of the Jane Does pool their prodigious intellects to clear Harper’s name. Peculiarly, all of the clues seem to have been lifted directly from the plot of Crooked House. But as Lyla probes the pages of Christie’s classic whodunnit for hints on catching the killer, she uncovers secrets from her mother’s past–secrets that suggest that Lyla’s own house may be crooked as well.
My Opinion: Another book by Kate Young where the murderer was not obvious from the beginning, and since the plot was based on Agatha Christie's Crooked House, oddly, it all made sense.
As each character spends their time in the spotlight, it is up to Lyla Moody to slowly remove who it could not be, only to leave the reader with the possible. With a last-minute twist, and only one remaining left-field character, you are left scratching your head and wondering why it couldn’t be …… all the clues were there from the beginning.
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