Loving cozy British mysteries set in bucolic villages with the most amusing of names as I do, I couldn’t pass up the chance to read The Murders in Great Diddling by New York Times bestselling author Katarina Bivald.
Berit Gardner moved to inland Cornwall and Great Diddling to escape London, her agent and writer’s block, hoping for peace, a little intrigue and inspiration for her next novel.
A manor house tea party murder in a town with more secrets and lies than residents was all the bestselling author needed to start the wheels spinning and put her novelist powers of observation to use, not only in hopes for her next book but to solving the crime as well with a little help from her assistant/agent’s daughter, Sally, and DCI Ian Ahmed.
When the town’s tourism board decides they should capitalize on the explosive murder in Tawny Hall’s grand library with a murder and books festival, the flawed and amusing characters as suspects came out of the woodwork, along with a red herring or two for a fun cozy read.
I recommend The Murders in Great Diddling to fans of cozy book-themed British mysteries and anyone who enjoys literary-themed mysteries. I received this advanced reader copy of The Murders in Great Diddling from Poisoned Pen Press, courtesy of NetGalley.
Order online or buy now at your favorite independent bookstore. Mine is Sellers Books and Art in Jim Thorpe, PA.
Review by Di Prokop, More Mystery Please
Berit Gardner moved to inland Cornwall and Great Diddling to escape London, her agent and writer’s block, hoping for peace, a little intrigue and inspiration for her next novel.
A manor house tea party murder in a town with more secrets and lies than residents was all the bestselling author needed to start the wheels spinning and put her novelist powers of observation to use, not only in hopes for her next book but to solving the crime as well with a little help from her assistant/agent’s daughter, Sally, and DCI Ian Ahmed.
When the town’s tourism board decides they should capitalize on the explosive murder in Tawny Hall’s grand library with a murder and books festival, the flawed and amusing characters as suspects came out of the woodwork, along with a red herring or two for a fun cozy read.
I recommend The Murders in Great Diddling to fans of cozy book-themed British mysteries and anyone who enjoys literary-themed mysteries. I received this advanced reader copy of The Murders in Great Diddling from Poisoned Pen Press, courtesy of NetGalley.
Order online or buy now at your favorite independent bookstore. Mine is Sellers Books and Art in Jim Thorpe, PA.
Review by Di Prokop, More Mystery Please