[Just](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34964916) wanted to come on here and officially recommend this cosy mystery novel! I’ve never been a massive fan of mystery genre – I tried to read a couple of Agatha Christie’s works and never really got into them and I recently just DNF’d novel by James Elroy***, for similar reasons. I find that a lot of mystery books focus so much on the whodunnit aspect of the mystery that I lose sight of the characters or the setting… or why I should care about who killed who or why people did certain things, and I was hoping that a cosy mystery would solve some of those problems for me and I was definitely right. This books biggest strength is in its pacing — it never really stalls or moves too quickly for my liking and I think as an introduction to the cosy mystery genre it definitely is a worthwhile read. I don’t necessarily know if I would be super eager to pick up the other books in the series right away but they are books that are on my radar as potential reads, if I ever feel the need for a nice pallet cleansing cosy mystery. If you have any other recommendations for cozy mysteries you think I’d like (or maybe general mystery novels, knowing now what sends me away from them) send them my way!
***This may also have been because it was the third book in his quartet, which I didn’t realize before picking it up…
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Good critique. This is the sort of feedback that helps writers get better.