by Carola Dunn
the setup felt a bit strained but overall an interesting murder mystery
This cozy English mystery is a ‘pure’ Daisy Dalrymple, cute and predictable (in a good way), one of the best in the series. The action takes place over Christmas in a crumbling mansion of an earl. He is Daisy’s distant relative and he invited Daisy (or rather her mother needled the invitation out of...
After finishing this book I had this voice in my head telling me "You know, Dunn really has written less shallow mysteries, the end was quite foreseeable and a family-tree at the beginning of the book would have made it a bit less confusing." And then there was another voice saying "Yeah...but it wa...
While I truly enjoyed the first book of this series, I'd say that this book, "Mistletoe and Murder" is perhaps my favorite so far, because the mystery didn't feel "usual".The last few Daisy mysteries seemed silly, outrageous, or downright unbelievable. But this book was quite good. Maybe it's becaus...
Actual rating: 4.5 stars This is probably one of my favorite books in the series thus far.