by Alison Goodman — A daring, witty and gritty Regency adventure with wonderfully independent female protagonists.
Tag: humour
The Maid, The Mystery Guest, The Maid’s Secret
by Nita Prose — Molly the Maid: naive, charming and delightful, she solves crimes while finding joy in cleaning.
Don’t Make Me Laugh
by Julia Raeside — Shines a Me Too searchlight on the comedy circuit. The nice guy is the usual toxic creep. Will he get his comeuppance?
Mrs Hudson and the Capricorn Incident
by Martin Davies — Historical crime fiction set in the Sherlock Holmes universe. Entertaining, well written with strong characters and good dialogue.
Kitty Collins series: How To Kill Men… and You’d Look Good in a Coffin
by Katy Brent — A fun series with a serious message. Too many men are violent against women. They don’t all get away with it.
Murder Mindfully
by Karsten Dusse — ‘I didn’t kill anyone until I was forty-two. […] Admittedly, I did kill almost half a dozen in the week that followed.’
A Good Place to Hide a Body
by Laura Marshall — When you get a call about a dead body, how far will you go to protect your elderly parents?
Key Lime Sky
by Al Hess — A fun, quirky cozy alien invasion romp that also addresses themes of isolation, queer identity and “logical” family.
What A Way To Go
by Bella Mackie — Fun social satire featuring obnoxious rich people, murder, financial crime and true crime podcasting.
The Light and Shade of Ellen Swithin
by DG Coutinho — Another in the latest slew of books about women truly killing it. Entertaining.
A Curtain Twitchers Book of Murder
by Gay Marris — Highly entertaining yarn about a 1960’s London street where murder is just behind the curtains. Well written and great fun.
The Husbands
by Holly Gramazio — What if you could order an unending list of husbands (and lifestyles) to choose from? An imaginative, funny, philosophical fantasy novel.
Violet Hamilton, Lady Detective series
by Hannah Dolby — Meet the most delightful detective ever written, Violet Hamilton, in No Life for a Lady and How to Solve a Murder Like a Lady.
Shaking Hands With Elvis
by Paul Carroll — An apparently light-hearted novel about assisted dying that feeds into a facile, populist narrative. Scare-mongering.
The Best Way to Bury Your Husband
by Alexia Casale — The Best Way to Bury Your Husband is, surprisingly, a very moving AND uplifting AND very funny book about domestic abuse and violence. Really!
The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch
by Melinda Taub — Funny, clever and very, very entertaining pastiche with witchcraft and tomfoolery.
Bad Men
by Julie Mae Cohen — Bad Men is sharp and fast and clever and very funny. You’ll love it. (Maybe less so if you’re a scumbag who hurts women.)
The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies
by Alison Goodman — When the days are dull and lifeless, you need The Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies. Thrilling, moving, clever.
Shade of Violet
by Jackie West — A bit of low fantasy, a bit of crime mystery, a lot of entertaining characters and dialogue. A fun, light – but also well written novel.
How To Kill Men and Get Away With It
by Katy Brent — Entertaining novel about a one-woman quest to redress the balance. Too many men are violent against women. They don’t all get away with it.