I had a grand time reading “Murder Most Pemberly” It is a delightful cozy with a huge Christie vibe. Eliza Darcy is invited to England for a family gathering and she has decided that it is far past time to get to the bottom of a family falling out between her father and her uncle, even if it means snooping around. “In for a penny, in for a pound,” takes on new meaning when people start going missing and turning up dead, leading her own investigation to cross with Scotland Yard’s.

It is an interesting take on an old tale with fun twists. The author’s writing style pulled me in right away. Eliza is a fascinating character and as each major secondary character was introduced there was a feeling of anticipation. In future books, I am most looking forward to Eliza’s scoobies, especially great Aunt Iris, they were the perfect foil for her personality and style of sleuthing.The story is full of scheming relatives, unexpected surprises, quirky characters, clever twists and turns, and puzzling intersected whodunits. I was kept guessing until almost the end, and even then I didn’t quite fit it together without Eliza’s help.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.
I received an advance review copy for free through Great Escapes Virtual Book Tours, and I am leaving this review voluntarily ( )

This was received as an Early Reviewer book from LibraryThing. "Murder Most Pemberley" was a Gothic/mystery/romance with a minor rehash or extension of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice", as updated to modern times.

It is an easy read, light and non-taxing, and if you like Jane Austin and romance novels, you will enjoy this one. (Unfortunately, I personally am not a romance novel reader and so found the frequent references to smoldering glances, interrupted secret meetings, fondling and so on annoying. But that is just my take on it.)

There is a mystery here - who is the killer at Pemberley? What are the family dynamics and relations with the staff? Where are the "skeletons in the closet." There are frequent references to the past, both in the not so distant past and also back to Elizabeth Darcy's supposed past 200 hundred years ago.

You probably will like it. ( )

This book was hard to keep my focus and I had to keep rereading the same chapters over and over again. I did like it, it was fun and easy to read and understand; I will have to give it a try later on and update my review. ( )

A fun, funny and entertaining adventure. Loved the characters! Eliza goes to England to get to know her family. Her father has been estranged from his family for a long time and Eliza wants to know exactly why. On the way, she meets a good looking man who entertains her on the flight over. Turns out that he is friends with her cousins. So, they get to know each other better and he is more than willing to be her sidekick in the sleuthing. Her great aunt and cousin are also helping to find out why her father left the family for America and who is killing off the help. Can they find the killer before Eliza becomes a victim? ( )

I wasn't impressed. First why did Eliza think she was suddenly a detective? Because she reads mystery novels??? Still not sure what the big SECRET rift was between her father and uncle. And every other sentence out of the British characters was a inexplicable cleche. I chuckled every time another ridiculous cleche was uttered. (I chuckled a lot!) The "love" story was laughable. It was so emotionally immature and awkward. And I also didn't "get" the connection between the snippets from the original Eliza's journals at the beginning of the chapters and the rest of the book. ( )