Murder on the Christmas Express

I picked this book up on a whim because I liked the cover and was in the mood for a Christmas mystery going into December. Now, if only there were some kind of proverb about judging books by their cover... My main problem with this book is that it's very tonally confused. Despite the cosy, festive co......more

This tried very hard to be MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS. Between the Scottish-isms, birth subplot, and glaring red herrings, the meat of the story was lost. As an aside, I am very much what the far right would call "woke," but even I cringed at the tossed in bits of diversity in a nearly all white c......more

So that wasn't the read I thought I was getting when I chose this. I'm going to make this short. This looked like exactly the kind of wintry read I love but I never connected to the characters (unusual for me even when they're unlikable). None of these folks were given enough depth and they were a b......more

I'm glad to see that other reviewers agree that there was far too much rape, domestic violence and sexual assault in this book for it to work well as a cosy. The light-hearted tone, cheerful banter, festive puzzles and the cover all suggest a Christmassy comfort read and the frequently darker conten......more

3.5/5 Odejmuję trochę z oceny za przegadaną końcówkę, ale sama historia była absorbująca!......more