Lucy Connelly travels around the world, usually with her bossy dog in tow. Her favorite pastime is sipping tea in a quaint cafe as she turns each passerby into a murder victim,
witness, or suspect. If she stares at you strangely, don’t worry. She only murdered you in her book.
[
The Page 69 Test: Death at a Scottish Wedding;
Q&A with Lucy Connelly]
Connelly's new novel is
Death at a Scottish Christmas.
At CrimeReads the author tagged
ten of "the most ingenious and novel killings in a long tradition of (fictional) killings." One title on the list:
Sometimes it is the motive that makes a mystery or thriller twisty. And Linda Castillo’s Amish mysteries featuring Chief of Police Kate Burkholder never disappoints in that regard. The methods of murder are also interesting. A Gathering of Secrets is book ten in the series but it’s a good twisty story. Again, the death is brutal and fiery, but nothing is what it seems. You can’t go wrong with any of the novels in this series when it comes to cleverness.
Read about
another entry on the list.
--Marshal Zeringue
witness, or suspect. If she stares at you strangely, don’t worry. She only murdered you in her book.
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