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Marple: Twelve New Mysteries by Natalie Haynes, Kate Mosse, Lucy Foley, Alyssa Cole, Jean Kwok, Naomi Alderman, Elly Griffiths, Ruth Ware, Karen M. McManus, Dreda Say Mitchell, Leigh Bardugo, Val McDermid

5 reviews

ijustreallyliketrees's review against another edition

mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

Read all twelve short stories in a couple sittings, enjoyed most of them. Favourites were Miss Marple's Christmas and Murder at the Villa Rosa.

Evil in Small Places - 2.5 stars
The Second Murder at the Vicarage - 3
Miss Marple Takes Manhattan - 4
The Unravelling - 5
Miss Marple's Christmas - 5
The Open Mind - 4
The Jade Empress - 4.25
A Deadly Wedding Day - 4.25
Murder at the Villa Rosa - 5
The Murdering Sort - 3.5
The Mystery of the Acid Soil - 4.25
The Disappearance - 4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Blood, Drug abuse, and Suicide

Minor: Pregnancy, Racism, Alcoholism, Antisemitism, and Colonisation

tashtasher's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Death, Grief, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent, Suicide, Blood, Classism, and Drug use

Minor: Drug abuse and Pregnancy

steffiraquel's review

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Murder

Moderate: Antisemitism, Infidelity, Xenophobia, Alcohol, Racism, Drug abuse, Misogyny, and Sexism

Minor: Kidnapping, Suicide, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Body shaming, Death of parent, Colonisation, War, Sexual assault, Addiction, Alcoholism, and Drug use

thebakerbookworm's review

lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

I'm not very familiar with Agatha Christie's original Miss Marple books (I've read more of her Poirot ones) so I can't speak to how these short stories compare to the originals. But, just taking them as twelve short mysteries on their own, they were pretty underwhelming to me. I would only just be getting invested in a mystery when it would be over, the culprit revealed, and we'd be moving on to the next one. Each story had a new narrator, and of course some were better than others (don't even get me started on that very lackluster non-mystery story from some random person's POV; I don't remember who wrote it but let's just say I was annoyed at the end).

I thought this would be a fun book to start October with, but now I'm wishing I'd just picked up an actual Agatha Christie book. *sigh*

Thanks to Libro.fm, Harper Audio, and the authors for my ALC.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse, Infidelity, Death, and Murder

purplepenning's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse, Classism, Racism, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Xenophobia, Blood, Sexism, Murder, Death, Infidelity, Death of parent, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Colonisation