A review by wildflowerz76
Mayhem at the Orient Express by Kylie Logan

2.0

The first book in the League of Literary Ladies series has three neighbors in court airing their petty complaints of each other. This isn't a new occurence so, fed up, the judge orders them to start a book club at the library because the judge's wife barges into the proceedings, crying that they're going to lose a grant at the library because they don't have a book club. Yes, seriously. So, the women meet, along with another woman from the town who is just a big reader. When their next weekly meeting comes up, there's a massive snowstorm. Our four main characters leave book club and don't go home, but to the new local Chinese restaurant, where they're all obsessed with this one particular dish. There, they find the owner dead. After dealing with the police, they all go back to Bea's house, which happens to be a B&B and end up crashing there, along with half the town, because the snowstorm knocks out the power and Bea's the only one with a generator.

I'm not going to go on. This book was ridiculous, even for a cozy. The characters were idiots. There were too many people to keep track of and the cook and her daughters seemed to be added to the narrative to add a flimsy excuse for a plot point later in the book. I'm not going to read more of these.