Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village – Maureen Johnson & Jay Cooper
Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village is exactly what it claims to be – a guide. Elucidating all the things a tourist needs to know about a quiet English village in order to navigate it and the inevitable undercurrents successfully (i.e., not get murdered).
Its’ also one of the funniest books I’ve ever read.
Aimed at the lovers of classic manor house and/or English village mysteries – think of the books penned by the Queens of Crime, Georgette Heyer, Francis Duncan, and Patricia Wentworth. Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered takes stock characters, architecture, and events inevitably found within pages of these mysteries and gives them an irreverent, rib-tickling, and on-the-nose descriptions.
There’s even a quiz at the end testing your prowess on surviving a night in said murder village.
I died twice…on the same page.
Sigh.
What I love even more – is how many of the people, places, and things Johnson describes in Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered that I recognize either from reading them or watching tv shows like Father Brown, Death In Paradise, and Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries.
I would recommend this book to anyone who loves classic mysteries and has an excellent sense of humor.
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