A Curious Incident by Vicki Delany review

Title:  A Curious Incident

Author:  Vicki Delany

Ch: 23

Pg:  304

Series: Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery book 6

Genre:  Cozy Mystery

Rating: 3.5 Stars

Publisher: Crooked Lane Brooks

 

A Curious Incident by Vicki Delany is the sixth book in the Sherlock Holmes bookshop mystery series. I finished the book in a day. Unfortunately it was too predictable. Which can mean two things, I’m getting burnt out on this series m, or I’ve read to many cozy mysteries and need a break from them. I just don’t know which it is.

I do know that I still enjoyed reading this one even i figured who done but the heroine did. But I’ll keep reading cozy mysteries because they are my go to comfort read. Some readers comfort read is women’s fiction, chick lit or romance but mine is cozy mysteries.

 

 

I received a copy of this book from the publisher through netgalley. I was not required to write a positive review. All opinions expressed are mine alone. 

There's A Murder Afoot review

Title:  There’s A Murder Afoot

Author: Vicki Delany

Series: Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery

Chapters: 22

Pages: 336

Genre: Cozy Mystery

Rating: 4 stars

Publisher:  Crooked Lane Books

     There’s a Murder Afoot by Vicki Delany is the newest installment in the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Series, and this one takes place in London. The first one in the series to take place across the pond. And with this one it’s easy to see that the main character Gemma Doyle who happens to share a name with the creator of Sherlock Holmes she’s meant to be a modern version of Sherlock Holmes expect she’s female.

     I have to say that this one is my favorite of the series so far, and it’s due in part to the London setting. Reading the mystery made it seem like the reader was indeed in London. As this is the 5^th one in the series I do recommend not reading this one first, I recommend starting with the first book Elementary, She Read.

I received a copy of this book from the publisher through netgalley. I was not required to write a positive review. All opinions expressed are mine alone.

Review of A Scandal in Scarlet

Title: A Scandal in Scarlet

Author: Vicki Delany

Series: A Sherlock Holmes Bookshop book 4

 

Chapters:

Pages:

Genre: cozy mystery

Rating: 3.5 stars

A Scandal in Scarlet is the fourth book in the A Sherlock Holmes Bookshop mystery series by Vicki Delany. Gemma Doyle has promised herself and her police detective boyfriend that she will quit getting involved in trying to solve mysteries.  But when she is the one to find the West London Museum in flames while out walking her dog violet one evening, and with following events, she finds herself in the middle of another mystery.  

This is a fast paced cozy mystery with a Sherlock Holmes like Detective in Gemma Doyle. whose brain works almost like Sherlock Holmes.  I didn't enjoy this one as much as the first books in the series but it was still an enjoyable read.  Fans of Sherlock Holmes, cozy mysteries about bookshops will enjoy this one.  And even though I didn't love it I still look forward to new books in this series.

I received a copy of this book from the publisher through netgalley. I was not required to write a positive review. All opinions expressed are mine alone.

Review of The Cat of the Baskerville's

Title: The Cat of the Baskerville's 



Author: Vicki Delany 



Series: A Sherlock Holmes Bookshop mystery book 3



Pages: 304



Genre: Cozy mystery 



Rating: 5 star

 In The Cat of the Baskerville's the third book in the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop mysteries by Vicki Delany Gemma Doyle no relation is sucked into helping her friend Jayne will an afternoon tea. To celebrate not only the town's theater putting on  The Hound of the Baskerville but Sir Nigel a famous theater actor who's cast as  Sherlock Holmes. However the tea doesn't go as planned and Sir Nigel ends up dead.  At first the lead female detective is convinced that Gemma is the prime suspect as   she is the one who found the body.  But the other detective who just happens to Gemma's ex isn't convinced. 

 Gemma just has a habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. As well as seeing things and clues that others have a habit of missing including the police. Which has become a sore spot between her the detectives, and besides no evidence points to her. Instead the police have their eyes set on Jayne's mother Leslie as the prime suspect.  Leaving Gemma  and Jayne no choice but to figure out who the real suspect is. 
The Cat of the Baskerville's isn’t your typical cozy mystery as Gemma isn't' really an amateur sleuth, she processes facts and clues much like Sherlock Holmes would do. It's what allowed her to solve two previous cases before the police. The first one to clear her name, the second to clear a friend’s name.   
The Cat of the Baskerville's just like the first two in the series kept me guessing from the beginning page to the last page.  Normally when I read mysteries I am able to figure out who done it before the end, not with this series. I personally like that in mystery, it keeps the surprises and the twist and turns going till the very end.  I can't wait to see what the next book in the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop mysteries by Vicki Delany has in store. 

I received a  copy of The Cat of the Baskerville's by Vicki Delany   from the publisher through Netgalley. I was not required to write a positive review. All opinions expressed are mine alone.