Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife by Martin Edwards
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
On Sale: Oct 7, 2025
This unique and carefully written puzzle mystery, by British author Martin Edwards, is set up like a game, and will not appeal to everyone.
"Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife" sounds like great fun but it certainly was not what I was expecting. Six people, connected to crime writing, are selected by the Midwinter Trust to spend Christmas in a forgotten, old-fashioned snowy village in England. The first person to solve the murder mystery will win the prize.
The book cover is gorgeous and there are layouts, but my Kindle's pages are black and white and the information on the maps was small. If the reader is interested in attempting to solve the puzzles in the story, a physical book would be the better choice. For the Kindle, several accommodations have been made to help the reader look back for facts. I decided just to read the book straight through. At the end of the tale, there is a list of sections that were clues. The story is told from a variety of points of view and other documents.
Recommended if you are a lover of puzzles or just curious.
Author Martin Edwards is widely recognized as a leading authority of crime fiction and his history of the genre, "The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and their Creators", has been acclaimed in Britain and the United States.
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