Puzzle Me a Murder - (An Alice Pepper Lonely Hearts and Puzzle Club Mystery) by Roz Noonan (Paperback)
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8 August, 2024
I struggled to finish it!
Puzzle Me a Murder by Roz Noonan is the debut of An Alice Pepper Lonely Hearts and Puzzle Club Mysteries (that’s a mouthful). I was drawn to this series because, like Alice, I have a penchant for puzzles. Alice Pepper is a woman in her mid-sixties, a librarian, and has a knack for solving puzzles. I did not find Alice and the rest of the cast to be likeable (I found most of them to be irritating). The story is heavy on the dialogue which leads to repetitive details. One person learns something, they then must tell another, and so on. The pacing was languid. I wish it had been peppier. The whodunit had me rolling my eyes often (I gave myself a headache). Alice’s friend, Ruby, is a prime suspect (of course), so Alice and her friends set out to prove her innocence. They trample all over the crime scene (I can see the guilty party getting off scot-free thanks to them) and have access to information that they should not (Alice’s granddaughter, Madison is a police officer). It was unrealistic. Alice’s other granddaughter lives in her basement and acts like a teenager instead of an adult. I did feel that mystical elements were not needed (there was enough going on). Puzzle Me a Murder is a story that I struggled to finish. Puzzle Me a Murder is an upbeat tale with mystification, murder, mayhem, family, and accommodating mates.
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Missing Pieces
Alice Pepper enjoys having her friends over to work on puzzles most nights. Among the group is her childhood best friend Ruby Milliner. When Ruby arrives home from a business trip early, she catches her husband with his mistress. The next morning, Ruby’s husband is dead, and the police are looking at Ruby as their prime suspect. Alice jumps in to find the killer. But does she have all the pieces to solve this puzzle? Despite the fact that I’m not much of a jigsaw puzzle guy, I thought this sounded like a fun premise for a series. Sadly, I was wrong. I didn’t feel like the characters ever went beyond being types, and it felt like they had too many interests or skills in their background. It felt like the author was checking boxes instead of making well rounded characters. There wasn’t attention to detail, so these things bumped me out of the book. The novel could have lost 60 pages without losing anything, the pacing was that off. And the climax, while logical, seemed abrupt to me. I really did want to like it more, but I won’t give this series another chance.