Category: murder mystery books

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What are we reading in the Solve the Murder Book Club?

January 11, 2024

Welcome to the first Solve the Murder Book Club selection for 2024 This month we are reading The Satsuma Complex by Bob Mortimer Plot My name is Gary. I’m a thirty-year-old legal assistant with a firm of solicitors in London. To describe me as anonymous would be unfair but to notice me other than in passing… More What are we reading in the Solve the Murder Book Club?

The Christmas Murder Game

Review of The Christmas Murder Game

December 21, 2023

For November, the Solve the Murder Book Club chose The Christmas Murder Game by Alexandra Benedict. It is available from Amazon and City Adventurers Solve The Murder The Plot Lily Armitage never intended to return to Endgame House – the grand family home where her mother died twenty-one Christmases ago. Until she receives a letter from her aunt,… More Review of The Christmas Murder Game

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Christmas Crimes

November 16, 2023

Fancy reading a little murder mystery at Christmas? Check out the festive books at https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/christmas-crimes including cosy mysteries and not so cosy murders. The City Adventurers love reading about mystery, so we’ve started our own book club.  Join the Solve The Murder Book Club

shot in the dark

A Shot in the Dark

October 26, 2023

A Shot in the Dark by Lynne Truss is the first in the Constable Twitten Mystery series. The Plot Brighton, 1957. Inspector Steine rather enjoys his life as a policeman by the sea. No criminals, no crime, no stress. So it’s really rather annoying when an ambitious – not to mention irritating – new constable… More A Shot in the Dark