Review: A Dark and Stormy Murder

A Dark and Stormy Murder by Julia Buckley
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

4.5 Star Review. A Dark and Stormy Murder (A Writer's Apprentice Mystery)is the first book in a new series by Julia Buckley.

Lena London wanted to be an inspiring writer after she read Camilla Graham’s novel, so how lucky was she when she landed a job as Camilla’s newest assistant! She will live with Camilla in a Victorian home, and help her with her newest mystery. All is right with the world for Lena, or so she thinks. In the small town of Blue Lake, Indiana, Lena is about to learn that anything can happen, especially when a dead body turns up on Camilla’s property.

Like the cover of the book and title, this book gives a dark tone to this mystery, which is pleasantly a nice change from reading other cozy where everything is sunshine and diabetic sweet. The characters are well put together, and for the most part likable. The plot is well thought out. There is actually two mysteries needing solved in this one. The author does a good job of intertwining them together, to where the reader doesn’t get lost or confused. I felt the speed of the book was perfect to where you can enjoy the book as well keeping up to speed with everything happening in the stories, while you caught up in the suspense of the mysteries.

For this book being the first in a mystery, I liked the fact that it really enhanced the fact that it was a mystery and we really didn’t have to spend three quarters of the book hearing all the backstories, and what brought them to where they are today, and then spend a few chapters for the murder to happen and then then a few chapters to find out who killed who. I do look forward to reading the others in this new series, as I have never read anything by this author, and I enjoyed the book so much.


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