[ISBW] 2026 Book Giveaway (#1)

Sometimes I get books of the genre I don't even talk about on here.

I think sometimes publicists just send stuff out.

Which is exciting, when it is my favorite murder mystery writer writing the classic Miss Marple.

I've been a fan of Lucy Foley since I read The Hunting Party, maybe? There's The Hunting Party and The Guest List, and those are both, they're very similar, but they're very good.

And the Paris apartment was okay.

But then I found out that Lucy would be doing murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel.

So you've got Snowbound and Ms. Marple and the notorious actress, the high-flying politician, the society wife, the reckless friend, the shrewd doctor.

But not everyone here is for a winter holiday.

I did read this one, because how could I not? And it holds together well.

That is the damning with faint praise thing, isn't it? I guess it's just that Lucy Foley has a specific way of writing.

That's why I like her so much, because her murder mysteries are crafted in a way that I don't see anywhere else.

But taking her unique... style and putting it onto Miss Marple, there was a chance that would not fit.

But I thought it did.

I enjoyed it.

It's Miss Marple.

It's a little bit with the current political mindset, meaning Agatha Christie was quite, you know, racist at times.

So yeah, that's modern day people who've tackled the Ms. Marple stories have either handled that or didn't bring it forward into time.

So we have Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel.

It's just good.

I don't have a sexy arc.

If you're listening to this, it's a green book with gold writing and that's it.

And it's kind of got the Christie's signature on the bottom, even though she didn't write it because she's dead.

It starts just like a Lucy Foley book, which is there's a gondola trundling along and one of the hotel guests is inside and they're dead.

And we don't know who it is.

And then the book starts two days earlier.