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Ellen Crosby’s The Merlot Murders is the first cozy mystery I’ve read since I was in middle school, and I was admittedly a little tentative about the undertaking… needlessly though, as it turns out! I enjoyed every page-turning moment of the book, especially the well-researched oenophilia and the rich descriptions of Virginia summers. Crosby’s writing

For the third entry in #MySummerOfMysteries, I opted to read Chris Pavone’s The Travelers because I’d heard such good things about the book, generally, as well as enthusiastic feedback from people who attended his program at the 2016 Virginia Festival of the Book. So, it was no surprise that The Travelers was a quick-paced read.

For the second book in #MySummerOfMysteries, I opted for something more traditionally literary with Gabriel Urza’s All That Followed. In the most simple description of the book, multiple narrators recount the story of a murder in a small town in Spain’s Basque Country and the moments leading up to and following from it. The narrative

This post is part of #MySummerOfMysteries, a project to immerse myself in mysteries, thrillers, crime writing, and whodunits. For each book I finish, I’m posting brief thoughts and reflections here. Please note that these are not intended as full reviews. To view my reading progress throughout the summer, click here.

Follow me on Twitter at @sarahdlawson for capsule reviews and thoughts as I read my way through a long list of new #crimefiction #mysteries #thrillers #noirs #capers #policeprocedurals #whodunits #suspense and more, all in preparation to attend Bouchercon 2016 in September!