Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife
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Beschreibung
'All the entertainment you'll need this Christmas. Wonderful stuff.' IAN MOORE
'A delight from the first page to the last.' DAILY MAIL
Can you find the clues and solve the murder first?
Six people with links to the world of crime writing have been invited to play a game this Christmas by the mysterious Midwinter Trust.
Solve the murder of a fictional crime writer in a remote village in north Yorkshire and win a life-changing prize.
Each guest has been meticulously vetted by the shadowy Trust, which has staff on-hand to make sure everyone plays fair. But with the village about to be cut off by a snow storm, they must be extra vigilant.
The game is set - but playing fair isn't on everyone's Christmas list.
And when the prize is to die for, it's so tempting to inject a little murder into the mystery...
Includes a Cluefinder where you can check the clues you spotted - and missed - as well as puzzles to solve alongside the characters. Perfect for lovers of classic murder mysteries and for fans of Janice Hallett, Alexandra Benedict and Alex Pavesi.
'Only a writer with Martin Edwards's knowledge of and feeling for British crime fiction in all its breadth and depth could have pulled off Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife.' MORNING STAR
'Excellent.' CRITIC
'A real masterpiece. . . perfect for fans of crime, puzzles and escape rooms!' DARLING READS, BOOKSELLER'S CIRCLE
'Very clever and funny, with lots of jokes about the book world to enjoy. Loved it.' MW CRAVEN
'A wonderful puzzle mystery from the master of the Golden Age.' RAGNAR JONASSON
'The king of the puzzle mystery novel.' ALEX PAVESI
'Nobody knows the game of murder like Martin Edwards.' ANTONY JOHNSTON
'Fiendish, hilarious and utterly addictive.' ORLANDO MURRIN
'A celebration of crime fiction... As thoughtful as it is fun.' CRIME FICTION LOVER
'What a treat.' SJ BENNETT
'I absolutely loved it.' MARY GRAND
'Martin knows more about crime fiction than anyone.' ANN CLEEVES
'A fine writer.... . . his novels feature an acute sense of place as well as deep psychological insights.' IAN RANKIN
Included in the i newspaper's best new crime and thriller books to read, September 2025
DISCOVER MORE THRILLING READS FROM THE KING OF CLASSIC CRIME, ALL FEATURING A CLUEFINDER SO YOU CAN PLAY DETECTIVE YOURSELF.
THE RACHEL SAVERNAKE GOLDEN AGE MYSTERIES
#1 GALLOWS COURT
#2 MORTMAIN HALL
#3 BLACKSTONE FELL
#4 SEPULCHRE STREET
#5 HEMLOCK BAY
STANDALONE MYSTERIES
#1 MISS WINTER IN THE LIBRARY WITH A KNIFE
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Martin Edwards schickt seine Leserschaft zu einem geheimnisvolles Gewinnspiel in die Pennines! Dort erwartet einen der Midwinter Trust, der noch sechs andere - scheinbar wahllos ausgesuchte - Gäste mit allen Bequemlichkeiten, die es gibt empfängt. Das Spiel ist ganz einfach: Löse den rätselhaften Mord von Midwinter und dich erwartet ein atemberaubender Preis! Als dann doch ein echter Mord im wilden Schneetreiben geschieht, ist sich keiner mehr so sicher, was hier wirklich gespielt wird. Was hat das Ganze zu bedeuten? Wer ist der aalglatte Chef, Jeremy Vendell in Wirklichkeit? Wurden wir tatsächlich zufällig vom Midwinter Trust ausgewählt? Bin ich hier noch sicher? Diese und viele weitere Fragen müssen nach und nach von den Leser selbst gelöst werden, wenn er das mörderische Spiel in Midwinter gewinnen und überleben will! So einen Roman habe ich noch nie gelesen und von Martin Edwards, dem hochdekorierten Autor, noch nie gehört. Die Lesestunden waren vergnüglich und rätselhaft, sodass ich mich auf die Suche nach weiteren Büchern von Edwards machen werde!
2 Stars ⭐️ This book had great ideas, but it wanted to much and ended up confusing and like a mix of a lot of mediocrity. I was excited to solve a mystery with the characters but the mystery took such a backseat over the course of the book that I lost all interest in it. It already took the first 30% of the book for the mystery game to start and than the deaths of some characters overshadowed it. And those deaths weren't even ruled as murderers. Instead everyone tried to tell the guests that it was an accident. And I wasn't even mad about it at first. But when a second person died and they called it an accident again, it just got repetitive. [SPOILER WARNING !] At the end they also threw in that the Midwinter Trust and some of the charactere spies - why?! That came so out of the blue and didn't add much to the mystery of who was killing the people in the village. The story wouldn't have changed without it and it only kept making everything more confusing and as the reader, I also didn't believe it. In the end, I only finished it because I had already invested so much time into this. Not because I actually care to solve the mystery game or the killings taking placw in Midwinter.
Beschreibung
'All the entertainment you'll need this Christmas. Wonderful stuff.' IAN MOORE
'A delight from the first page to the last.' DAILY MAIL
Can you find the clues and solve the murder first?
Six people with links to the world of crime writing have been invited to play a game this Christmas by the mysterious Midwinter Trust.
Solve the murder of a fictional crime writer in a remote village in north Yorkshire and win a life-changing prize.
Each guest has been meticulously vetted by the shadowy Trust, which has staff on-hand to make sure everyone plays fair. But with the village about to be cut off by a snow storm, they must be extra vigilant.
The game is set - but playing fair isn't on everyone's Christmas list.
And when the prize is to die for, it's so tempting to inject a little murder into the mystery...
Includes a Cluefinder where you can check the clues you spotted - and missed - as well as puzzles to solve alongside the characters. Perfect for lovers of classic murder mysteries and for fans of Janice Hallett, Alexandra Benedict and Alex Pavesi.
'Only a writer with Martin Edwards's knowledge of and feeling for British crime fiction in all its breadth and depth could have pulled off Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife.' MORNING STAR
'Excellent.' CRITIC
'A real masterpiece. . . perfect for fans of crime, puzzles and escape rooms!' DARLING READS, BOOKSELLER'S CIRCLE
'Very clever and funny, with lots of jokes about the book world to enjoy. Loved it.' MW CRAVEN
'A wonderful puzzle mystery from the master of the Golden Age.' RAGNAR JONASSON
'The king of the puzzle mystery novel.' ALEX PAVESI
'Nobody knows the game of murder like Martin Edwards.' ANTONY JOHNSTON
'Fiendish, hilarious and utterly addictive.' ORLANDO MURRIN
'A celebration of crime fiction... As thoughtful as it is fun.' CRIME FICTION LOVER
'What a treat.' SJ BENNETT
'I absolutely loved it.' MARY GRAND
'Martin knows more about crime fiction than anyone.' ANN CLEEVES
'A fine writer.... . . his novels feature an acute sense of place as well as deep psychological insights.' IAN RANKIN
Included in the i newspaper's best new crime and thriller books to read, September 2025
DISCOVER MORE THRILLING READS FROM THE KING OF CLASSIC CRIME, ALL FEATURING A CLUEFINDER SO YOU CAN PLAY DETECTIVE YOURSELF.
THE RACHEL SAVERNAKE GOLDEN AGE MYSTERIES
#1 GALLOWS COURT
#2 MORTMAIN HALL
#3 BLACKSTONE FELL
#4 SEPULCHRE STREET
#5 HEMLOCK BAY
STANDALONE MYSTERIES
#1 MISS WINTER IN THE LIBRARY WITH A KNIFE
Buchinformationen
Beiträge
WH@T IT T@K€$ TØ $Ø£V€ @ MURD€R M¥$T€R¥
Martin Edwards schickt seine Leserschaft zu einem geheimnisvolles Gewinnspiel in die Pennines! Dort erwartet einen der Midwinter Trust, der noch sechs andere - scheinbar wahllos ausgesuchte - Gäste mit allen Bequemlichkeiten, die es gibt empfängt. Das Spiel ist ganz einfach: Löse den rätselhaften Mord von Midwinter und dich erwartet ein atemberaubender Preis! Als dann doch ein echter Mord im wilden Schneetreiben geschieht, ist sich keiner mehr so sicher, was hier wirklich gespielt wird. Was hat das Ganze zu bedeuten? Wer ist der aalglatte Chef, Jeremy Vendell in Wirklichkeit? Wurden wir tatsächlich zufällig vom Midwinter Trust ausgewählt? Bin ich hier noch sicher? Diese und viele weitere Fragen müssen nach und nach von den Leser selbst gelöst werden, wenn er das mörderische Spiel in Midwinter gewinnen und überleben will! So einen Roman habe ich noch nie gelesen und von Martin Edwards, dem hochdekorierten Autor, noch nie gehört. Die Lesestunden waren vergnüglich und rätselhaft, sodass ich mich auf die Suche nach weiteren Büchern von Edwards machen werde!
2 Stars ⭐️ This book had great ideas, but it wanted to much and ended up confusing and like a mix of a lot of mediocrity. I was excited to solve a mystery with the characters but the mystery took such a backseat over the course of the book that I lost all interest in it. It already took the first 30% of the book for the mystery game to start and than the deaths of some characters overshadowed it. And those deaths weren't even ruled as murderers. Instead everyone tried to tell the guests that it was an accident. And I wasn't even mad about it at first. But when a second person died and they called it an accident again, it just got repetitive. [SPOILER WARNING !] At the end they also threw in that the Midwinter Trust and some of the charactere spies - why?! That came so out of the blue and didn't add much to the mystery of who was killing the people in the village. The story wouldn't have changed without it and it only kept making everything more confusing and as the reader, I also didn't believe it. In the end, I only finished it because I had already invested so much time into this. Not because I actually care to solve the mystery game or the killings taking placw in Midwinter.