Mostly Murders

I had been assured that our new life in Gloucestershire would be peaceful and uneventful.

Lady Emily Hardcastle and her maid Florence Armstrong have left London for the quiet life in the English countryside. But on one of their very first peaceful walks, they come across a dead body in a clearing, and their plans for an uneventful life are soon replaced with the urge to investigate what appears to be murder disguised as suicide.

A fun, cozy mystery with a very unconventional sleuthing duo. Imagine if Sherlock Holmes were a cheerful, adventurous, widowed society lady, and Watson were a tough, sarcastic maid with martial arts skills, and the two of them had a very colourful past filled with dangerous and exciting escapades, eradicating the distance between classes that would normally define a mistress/servant relationship.

Narrated by Florence, the novel is filled with fun and friendly banter, colourful locals, hints at the checkered past of Florence and Lady Hardcastle and lots of tongue-in-cheek humour and early 1900s atmosphere and charm. If you like your mysteries serious, realistic and highly complex, this one probably isn’t for you. But if you enjoy humorous, light-hearted, cozy historical mysteries with lots of atmosphere and unconventional characters, I highly recommend giving this one a try.

Do you like mysteries narrated by an assistant to the detective, rather than mysteries told from the detective’s own point of view?

Cozy mystery – Historical mystery