GETAWAY WITH MURDER BY DIANE KELLY

Getaway with Murder has the perfect setting for a cozy mystery! Unfortunately, this just might be the only thing I loved about this book.

Rating: ★★★
​Release Date: October 26, 2021
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Series: The Mountain Lodge Mystery series #1 
Pages: 304 pages
Format: eBook. Source: Publisher (thank you!).

Getaway With Murder is the first in a cozy series from Diane Kelly set in a lodge in the Blue Ridge Mountains, where secrets hide behind every hill.

As if hitting the half-century mark wasn’t enough, Misty Murphy celebrated her landmark birthday by amicably ending her marriage and investing her settlement in a dilapidated mountain lodge at the top of the Blue Ridge Mountains. With the old inn teetering on both a bluff and bankruptcy, she must have lost her ever-loving mind.

Luckily, handyman Rocky Crowder has a knack for rehabbing virtual ruins and for doing it on a dime, and to Misty’s delight, the lodge is fully booked on opening night, every room filled with flexible folks who’d slipped into spandex and ascended the peak for a yoga retreat with plans to namastay for a full week. Misty and her guests are feeling zen—at least until the yoga instructor is found dead.

With a killer on the loose and the lodge’s reputation hanging in the balance, Misty must put her detective-skills to the test. Only one thing is as clear as a sunny mountain morning—she must solve the crime before the lodge ends up, once again, on the brink.

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𝗥𝗘𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗪 𝗦𝗡𝗔𝗣𝗦𝗛𝗢𝗧: Getaway with Murder has the perfect setting for a cozy mystery! Unfortunately, this just might be the only thing I loved about this book.

I enjoyed Getaway with murder. I think it’s a solid start to a brand-new series and allows us to get to know the main characters who will appear throughout the rest of the books. The setting, a 𝗠𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗧𝗔𝗜𝗡𝗦𝗜𝗗𝗘 𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗢𝗥𝗧, is probably my favorite thing about this book though. Don’t get me wrong, this book isn’t bad, I just personally found it difficult to get into. I think the main reason for this is that for such a short book it felt like it took forever to get through. Could have been my mood but I won’t really know until I read another one in the future.

As for the who-dun-it, I didn’t guess it right! This is a very good thing because I’ve read so many of these types of books it’s almost easy for me to identify the killer a lot sooner than it’s revealed. The suspect list here is good and there were many people to weed through, but I was thrown off quite a bit. Kudos to the author for this piece of the novel! I hate when I can figure it out before the story is over.

If you’re interested in reading a cozy mystery set in the Appalachian Mountains at a resort, then this is a good book to start with. While not my personal favorite, I can see the appeal and would definitely read another in the series.

𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗙𝗘𝗖𝗧 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗙𝗔𝗡𝗦 𝗢𝗙:
• Cozy Mysteries
• A mountainside setting
• Authors like Deborah Blake, Nancy Coco, and Victoria Gilbert

𝗠𝗬 𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚: ⭐⭐⭐

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