5 paws Cozy mystery Review

Review – Critters and Crimes by Elizabeth Pantley

StoreyBook Reviews 

Synopsis

A quaint riverside town holds many secrets … and the only ones who’ve seen it all are the critters.
This book club dives (literally!) into the pages of a cozy mystery. The quirky group must solve the mystery to get out of the book. It’s so much fun – you’ll wish you had a book club like this!

In this journey, they choose a book set in a lovely riverside town. They land in a charming neighborhood and find they are part of a local book club. They are having a great time – and then a dead body shows up. (Of course it does!)

The clues to what happened come to them in a unique way – via the critters in the house.

As usual, the club finds plenty of time to enjoy the unique setting of their journey, as they solve the mystery – one critter at a time.

Amazon

Read for Free via Kindle Unlimited

 

Review

This series has become a favorite, from the characters to the mystery to be solved. Each book is unique because the characters jump into a book to solve the mystery.

It is hard for me to believe that this is the eleventh book. I have enjoyed watching the characters evolve while retaining their quirky personas. It is clear that all the characters are aware of their counterparts’ weaknesses and help them overcome them to move the story forward.

This mystery had some interesting twists. I won’t give away anything because it would spoil the natural progression of the story and give you a hint of what might come. I will say that it was fun that the book club could hear the animals, but no one in the town could. And it was more than your normal cats and dogs; it included parakeets, mice, a turtle, rabbits, a guinea pig, and even a worm. Each of these animals provided a clue that helped the book club solve the murder.

I heartily enjoy this series and give it 5 paws up.

 

 

 

About the Author

Elizabeth writes well-loved cozy mysteries in two series: The Destiny Falls Mystery & Magic book series and the Magical Mystery Book Club series.

Elizabeth lives in the Pacific Northwest and Arizona, two very different places. Both are rich, gorgeous, natural places, and inspire the settings in many of her books.

Instagram | Facebook |  Website | Amazon

 

Recommended Posts

excerpt fiction Guest Post mystery

Guest Post & Excerpt – A Change in Plans by Mike Martin

    Synopsis RCMP officer Winston Windflower’s rare afternoon off gets interrupted when a hit and run turns into murder and he must pull together a team of Mounties from Newfoundland to resolve the crime. Following the money and fentanyl— and bodies—Windflower and his team join forces with police officers in southern Ontario to take […]

StoreyBook Reviews 
4 paws excerpt fiction Review

Review & Excerpt – Be Well by Sarah Flocken

  Synopsis Summer 2009: Brand-new college graduate Ann Ward has sent out nearly three hundred job applications, but nobody will employ her. The last thing she wants to do is leave Los Angeles, return to her desert hometown, and live in the shadow of her fame-hungry televangelist father–and it’s starting to look like that’s her […]

StoreyBook Reviews 
Cozy Giveaway mystery Spotlight

Mystery Spotlight & Giveaway – A Cultivated Corpse by Debra Sennefelder

    Synopsis When the local garden club president is killed, food blogger Hope Early will have to dig through the clues to catch a killer . . . The Jefferson Garden Club’s annual plant sale is just around the corner, but Hope Early and other members of the club are more focused on the garden restoration project […]

StoreyBook Reviews