Oliver Moss

Even with upping my challenge and being out of shorter books, I am still doing well on my challenge.

How To Solve Your Own Murder - I picked this up because I am trying to familiarize myself with mysteries and this appears to be the hot, new one. The plot came together very, very well. Towards the end, bits from the start kept occurring to me and made a lot of sense. It was the smoothest modern mystery I'd read.

However, in the home stretch it gets a bad case of sequel-itis. It feels like things are scooped out to set up a series instead. It made the book a lot less satisfying. If this had been a stand alone, I'd read more books by the author. Since the ending was filled with plot hooks and suddenly feeling like two plotlines got dropped, I doubt I will.

Death by Silver and A Death at the Dionysus Club by by Melissa Scott and Amy Griswold - books 1 and 2 of Lynes and Mathey - These are a bit tricky. I liked them. They are listed as m/m mystery books and they are, but I feel like those categories might give people the wrong expectations for the books.
( No specific plot spoilers, but I talk about the shape of the plot might give something away about the second book if you think about it )