Mostly Murders

“No, no, no. You’re wrong, Rishard. The lawyer left that note with the bartender as a clue,” says April.

A single mother in her 40s. A four-time divorcee who always wears Hawaiian shirts and crocs. A beautician who loves gossiping. A retired school principal and a cantankerous Vietnam War vet. These are the members of The Murder Movie Club at The Northwoods Movie Theater.

A mismatched group with only their love of murder mysteries in common, but when the five of them come across a real dead body on one of their movie nights, they band together, convinced that they can solve the murder before the local police.

I absolutely love the concept of this movie club. The group assembles in the movie theater and begin watching a murder mystery movie. Halfway through the movie, or when all the suspects have been introduced and people have enough info, the movie is paused, and the group discuss who they think the murderer is. After discussion the movie continues, and the group gets to see if any of them got it right.

Murder Movie Club is a fun, light-hearted cozy mystery featuring a quirky bunch of bickering amateur sleuths in a small town in Northern Michigan. If you want your whodunnits to be realistic and serious, this isn’t one for you. But if you love cozy mysteries with lots of humour, banter, flawed but loveable characters and sassy seniors, then I highly recommend this one for a fun, relaxing, and, at 171 pages, fairly short read.

I love the idea of this movie club. Would you join a movie club to watch murder movies and try to guess who the murderer is before the grand reveal at the end of the movie?

Cozy mystery