Many of you are delving into cozy mysteries because they offer ingenious twists without gratuitous gore. Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village by Maureen Johnson and Jay Cooper is just what you need to escape the third-winter-of-the-pandemic doldrums. It’s a clever treat hidden in a survival guide replete with instructions and Edmund Gorey-like illustrations. Maureen Johnson is the best-selling author of numerous young adult novels. Illustrator Jay Cooper is best known as an illustrator of children’s books and his dive into the world of unsettling, edgy, darkly Victorian drawings is a delicious diversion from real life. That both have collaborated on this departure from the world of young adult and children’s books is such a gift for bored adults.
Your Guide… offers a brief interlude for dreary days with its wry humor that’s guaranteed to make jaded readers smile. It’s quite short and you’ll finish it quickly, but blimey, it’s brilliant.
Summing it Up: Beware of the Vicar!
Rating: 4 Stars
Categories: Dessert, Sushi, Tapas
Author Website: https://www.maureenjohnsonbooks.com/
Author/Illustrator Website: https://www.jaycooperbooks.com/
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