Murder Most Actual by Alexis Hall

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QOTD: Have you binged Only Murders in the Building?

Are you a fan of the board game Clue? Have you read The Murder on the Orient Express, but thought it was too dark? Do you wish they would make more episodes of Mrs. Marple? Then this book is for you!

What a fun spin on Agatha Christie. I loved this light and fun adventure. Both Hanna and Liza were very real complex characters. I absolutely related to Liza’s internal monologue, which wandered back and forth between the murders and her relationship troubles with Hanna.

There are few novels that I have read that address neither the beginning nor the end of a relationship, but two people navigating the changing tides of their love story as they mature. Hanna and Liza are ten years into their marriage and are trying to find a way to their couplehood again.

By chance, they are trapped in a hotel in the Scottish Highlands, when an accidental death occurs. Or was it?

When Ruby, the honest-to-goodness, femme-fatale, pulls her into a broom closet and whispers that someone is after her, Liza partially out of professional curiosity as a true-crime podcaster, partially out of blind lust, begins the investigation.

As more people mysteriously perish, it becomes clear that Liza might be onto something, but will she solve it in time and save her marriage, or will she be the murderer’s next victim? -Sky