March is Mystery Month is one of my favorite months of book club. However, it's always a challenge to pick an appropriate mystery. The format of the meeting requires that it be a whodunit novel that lays out all the clues and offers the reader a fair play chance of identifying the murderer and motive. Occasionally, we pick a book that doesn't really work.
However, the Agatha Awards are here to help us out! The Agatha Awards go to novels that:
- contain no explicit sex
- contain no excessive gore or gratuitous violence
- usually feature an amateur detective
- take place in a confined setting and contain characters who know one another
The 2009 Agatha winner is The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny. It looks charming!
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