Bran New Death by Victoria Hamilton is the start of the Merry Muffin mystery series. Merry Wynter has put her worldly belongings into storage and has headed north to Autumn Vale in Upstate New York to a castle she's inherited. Her late uncle Melvin died in a car crash. Having been blacklisted from modeling, she has nothing else better to do than to see the place in person and hopefully sell it. Upstate seems to be rife with castles in cozy mysteries and tiny towns that are so close to Canada they're probably floating on yet to be discovered islands in Lake Ontario. Such is the life of the cozy series written by Canadians for Americans. As I have family from both sides of that border, I don't mind. http://pussreboots.com/blog/2020/comm...

It’s a cozy murder-mystery so like I wasn’t expecting Shakespeare but it still wasn’t great for me. However, it managed to pique my interest enough to know I’m going to force myself to continue with the series, so I guess that’s something. On the plus side, there’s a few recipes at the end of each book so I have those to look forward to.