Murder at the Mill: A Mystery

Festive, cozy, and with a vintage feel I am in love with M B Shaw s new series featuring the fantastic Iris Grey In a mystery that is driven by sleuthing and uncovering the truth than it is danger or gruesomeness, Iris will charm you with her perceptiveness and dogged determination to uncover what happened and who is responsible A murder on Christmas Day will spark a journey with many reveals along the way In the best version of a cozy, we learn that even in a small, charmed town, ever Festive, [...]

This is a great festive crime read that is in the style of the golden era of classic crime I understand it is the first in the Iris Grey series and I really enjoyed reading it Iris Grey s marriage to Ian Mcbride is in the process of breaking down after numerous attempts to have a child So it is a relief for Iris to escape to her rented cottage at Hazelford village in Hampshire Iris is a portrait painter, and has been commissioned by Ariadne Wetherby to paint her famous crime novelist husband Thi [...]

Murder at the Mill is a fantastic beginning to a new series featuring Iris Grey, an artist who happens to solve a murder mystery I picked up Murder at the Mill to fulfill the amateur sleuth category for the PopSugar Reading Challenge and thought I was going to get a cute cozy tale While this is not a thriller by any means, it is definitely a good, old fashioned, well told mystery in the style of Agatha Christie There are lots of twists and turns and red herrings that will keep you guessing Murde [...]

Iris Grey rents a cottage in Hampshire village Her marriage is struggling, and she wants to go somewhere to regroup and work on her painting The cottage is owned by the Wetherby family, and Iris is soon captivated with the family On Christmas Day, the youngest Wetherby discovers a body in the water A mysterious death, that leads to Iris playing amateur sleuth.This book is classic crime mystery The story has a great start with describing the setting and characters Then a crime occurs A mur Iris G [...]

She was a riot of contradictions quiet but pushy, reserved but passionate, observant yet refreshingly slow to judge Reviewing Murder at the Mill is also going to be a riot of contradictions because I ve gone from rating it a one star, this sucks read to a near on four star ooooh I need some answers page turner read.I have never felt so conflicted about rating a book as this one, I shall try my upmost to review this honestly and fairly without too much snark.So, Murder at the Mill is a c [...]

3.5 starsI love discovering new mystery series and new to me authors M B Shaw is not a new author, but she is new to me and I was eager to check out a book that sounded like an Agatha Christie mystery.An quirky protagonist solves crime at a country house party the holidays Yes and double yes I was so excited to read this one, especially during the holiday season So the first thing that I thought when I put my eyes on this book, was that it was going to be a cozy mystery The cover alon 3.5 starsI [...]

Iris Grey has rented a cottage on the grounds of the grand Wetherby Estate She has come to paint and contemplate the status of her marriage Dom Wetherby, an acclaimed author, and his wife Ariadne, host an acclaimed Christmas Eve party, attended by locals, celebrities and the media Iris reluctantly agrees to attend, interested in people watching then socializing Iris had been commissioned to paint Dom s portrait and was just getting a feeling for his larger than life personality.Christma Iris Gre [...]