Murder At the Lakeside Library
By Holly Danvers
Summer is the perfect time to curl up in a comfy chair with a cold beverage and a cozy mystery. Murder At the Lakeside Library is a great summer read and checks off all of the boxes for a successful cozy mystery without being formulaic.
The main ingredients for a cozy mystery are an intelligent, intuitive amateur sleuth in a small town or village. Rain Wilmont packs up her belongings and moves into her parents’ cabin in Lofty Pines, Wisconsin, hoping for some time alone to grieve after her husband’s sudden death. Right after her arrival, she is greeted by her old friend Julia, who was preparing to reopen the lending library attached to Rain’s cabin. Rain’s hopes for alone time evaporate when a dead body is found near the outhouse on her family’s property.
Typically, a cozy mystery includes a friend or relative who has access to police reports, autopsies, and other official documents an amateur sleuth would be able to access on her own. Danvers does not disappoint when she introduces Julia’s brother Jace, a police officer who looks like Brad Pitt with shorter hair. Jace would prefer that Rain and Julia stay out of danger but does what he can to keep them safe.
Murder At the Lakeside Library is fun summer reading that welcomes the reader to a lovely lake, fun characters, and an appealing mystery. This is the first book in Holly Danvers’ Lakeside Library mysteries, and I’m looking forward to the next one.
Murder At the Lakeside Library is fun summer reading that welcomes the reader to a lovely lake, fun characters, and an appealing mystery. Share on XThank you, NetGalley and Crooked Lane Books for providing me an advance review copy.
