Susan’s Book Blog

 I love everything Alexis Hall writes so I am here to remind you that his newest book is released TODAY!  Murder Most Actual available only on Kobo and the app is free to download.  Try it and tell me what you think! (See how many classic mystery genre references you can spot throughout the book. 🕵🏻‍♀️😉)  Murder Most Actual  by Alexis Hall  is now LIVE!  Download today on Kobo!    https://bit.ly/3EMWSQL     Goodreads:  https://bit.ly/39xTqeb From the author of Boyfriend Material and Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake comes a cozy mystery that revisits the Golden Age of detective fiction, starring a heroine who's more podcaster than private eye and topped with a lethal dose of parody -- perfect for fans of Clue, Knives Out, and Only Murders in the Building! When up-and-coming true crime podcaster Liza and her corporate financier wife Hanna head to a luxurious hotel in the Scottish Highlands, they're hoping for a chance to rekind...

  How cute is that cover?  This book is a lot of fun. It has all of the depth and humor and cleverness you’d expect from an Alexis Hall novel. But it’s a mystery! And it’s a love story! And an homage to classic mysteries! All at the same time! I’ve never read a “cozy mystery” before. I haven’t read many mysteries, cozy or otherwise, to be honest. It’s not a genre I’m terribly familiar with but - and forgive the cliché - I would read a book full of IKEA furniture instructions if they were written by Alexis Hall. So this was a no-brainer choice for me. But now I wish I had more knowledge of mysteries because with my minuscule pop culture knowledge I was able to pick up on the not-so-subtle nods to all six of the original Clue characters and Hercule Poirot with the premise of And Then There Were None. I just wonder what other genre references I’m missing.  And the cozy mystery might be a new genre for Hall but this book has several of his signatures:  socially conscious...