Blog tour: Murder in the Library

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Welcome to the blog tour for Murder in the Library by Anita Davison!

More about the book…

1916, London: Keen to support the war effort, bookshop manager and sometime amateur sleuth Hannah Merrill has taken a volunteer role in the library of the nearby military hospital. But arriving at the hospital one cold winter’s morning, she is horrified to find the body of a dead soldier in the library.

What’s more, a beautiful young nurse confides in Hannah that she thinks she’s being followed, and then she abruptly disappears.

Hannah can’t shake the suspicion that the two cases are connected, but she can’t solve the case alone. She’ll once again need to call upon her delightful, demanding, only-occasionally devious aunt, Violet.

The two women know they must find the missing nurse before it’s too late… but they don’t realise they’re now both in the killer’s sights.

More about the author…

My impressions…

After Murder in the Bookshop, this is the second book in the Miss Merrill and Aunt Violet mysteries series. A series that I love! If you’re not familiar with it, I would probably start from the beginning before there are many books to catch up with (hint, hint, please let there be more!). Both mysteries can however be read as stand-alone novels too, without spoiling any of the fun.

Like its predecessor, this is a cosy mystery set mainly in London during World War I. Plus, the book connection is still very much there as the crime is committed in the hospital library where Hannah, our dear Miss Merrill, volunteers when she’s not at the bookshop owned by her Aunt Violet. Both women are as fearless and feisty as ever, and they do all they can – and a few things they probably shouldn’t – to help solve the mysteries they find themselves embroiled in.

Narrated with the humour I came to expect of this author, I thoroughly enjoyed this book, which also boasts a cameo appearance of Bartleby the cat!

Three words to describe it. Humorous. Exciting. Clever.

Do I like the cover? Yes, it’s perfect.

Have I read any other books by the same author? Yes, the first book in the series, Murder in the Bookshop.

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