January 19th's Friday Post

 Let's go for three in a row!  I'm back for this week's Friday Post, and I'll be linking up to:

Book Beginnings
First Line Friday
Friday 56
Book Blogger Hop

This week's book is The Case of the Canterfell Codicil by PJ Fitzsimmons.

Yes, that's a mouthful of a title, but it is a great book.  I finished it earlier this week.  It's a locked room mystery set in on an estate in England in 1928 packed with plenty of humor.

I will say, however, that the beginning was a little rough.  I'll share the telegram that opens the book as well as the first couple of lines:

 “COME AT ONCE -(STOP)- UNCLE SEB. DEAD -(STOP)- DEFENESTRATED BY UNSEEN HAND -(STOP)- FIDDLES”

“Rummy missive,” I said to Carnaby, steward of the Juniper Gentleman’s Club. He’d just read the telegram aloud for my benefit, my hands being otherwise occupied with a whisky and soda syphon. “What do you make of it?”

Reading it now, it makes sense.  Maybe it was just that it took me the first chapter to really get into it.

Either way, I was very into the book by the time I hit the 56% mark.  It was hard to pick a quote since it was a scene with a lot of spoilers for the plot, but I was able to snag this one:

“Are you calling me a liar, Mister Boisjoly?” said Laetitia, her arms crossed for battle.
“My dear Mrs Canterfell, of course not. I’m merely calling you a bad guesser.”

What to know what that is all about?  You'll have to read the book.

I'll be back with my review next Thursday.

In the meantime, let's turn to this week's Book Blogger Hop.  The question is:

Have you ever loved a book that everyone else hated or hated a book that everyone else loved?

Plenty of times.  I feel like I'm often opposite others.

A big example for me is Robert Crais.  He has a few books that I really enjoyed, but most of them are okay at best.  But many people rave about his books.  I find I'm one of the few saying they aren't as good as everyone else thinks they are.

That's it for me.  Hope you have a good weekend.