I Only Read Murder is a cozy mystery set against the backdrop of the staging of a historical murder mystery--Death Is the Dickens, written by a local playwright. The setting plays a key role in cozy mysteries. This novel is set in Happy Rock, Oregon...
'Everyone moved slower out here, more leisurely, as though time were less pressing. It was a watercolor come to life. A doily of a town, with marigolds and flowering begnias spilling out of streetlamps baskets. Happy Rock hadn't been built; it had been crocheted into existence.'
(p. 22)
It's a cozy mystery that asks the question: What do you do when you're lost? Can you go home again?
Harper Collins
cozy mystery
2023
311 pp
Fifteen years ago, Minnesota-born Miranda Abbott left Oregon and her newlywedded husband to pursue fame and fortune. She found both as the star of the popular TV mystery Pastor Fran Investigates.
Fifteen years later, forty-something Miranda has lost her fame and she has lost her fortune.
A postcard from her estranged husband sends her travelling back--a sixteen hours and thirty-seven minutes bus ride--to Happy Rock, Oregon. Will she find love? Will she find murder? What will happen when Actor Miranda investigates?
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