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A review by krisrid
The Book Club Murders by Leslie Nagel
5.0
I loved everything about this book! I rarely give 5 stars to a cozy, but this book absolutely deserved them.
I was totally sucked into this story literally from the first page. The pace of the plot feels like it starts slowly but before you know it, the action is racing like a raging river. The way the story built felt natural and smooth, but you find yourself racing through to find out how everything will turn out.
I loved these characters, too! They feel real, and the lives they live in this small town feel real too. You can totally believe that these people would do the things they do, and be the people they are. I REALLY loved Charly and Frankie!! They are a great pair of friends, and their sleuthing was a riot to watch. All the supporting characters are also buckets of fun, especially Dimitri. The snappy repartee between these people made me laugh out loud more than once.
The murder mystery and its investigation was, I thought, quite cleverly conceived, and there's a twist that I did not see coming, so that was kind of a cool surprise in the later part of the book.
Even the requisite romance between Charly and Marc was set up quite cleverly and was more believable than these sorts of things usually are in cozy mysteries.
This was a great first book, and I will absolutely be reading future books in this series. I loved every page of it and was sorry when I got to the end.
I was totally sucked into this story literally from the first page. The pace of the plot feels like it starts slowly but before you know it, the action is racing like a raging river. The way the story built felt natural and smooth, but you find yourself racing through to find out how everything will turn out.
I loved these characters, too! They feel real, and the lives they live in this small town feel real too. You can totally believe that these people would do the things they do, and be the people they are. I REALLY loved Charly and Frankie!! They are a great pair of friends, and their sleuthing was a riot to watch. All the supporting characters are also buckets of fun, especially Dimitri. The snappy repartee between these people made me laugh out loud more than once.
The murder mystery and its investigation was, I thought, quite cleverly conceived, and there's a twist that I did not see coming, so that was kind of a cool surprise in the later part of the book.
Even the requisite romance between Charly and Marc was set up quite cleverly and was more believable than these sorts of things usually are in cozy mysteries.
This was a great first book, and I will absolutely be reading future books in this series. I loved every page of it and was sorry when I got to the end.