Death of a Cozy Writer

6. The novel has several red herrings. Were you misled by any of these? Were you able to guess “who done it,” or did the author surprise you? If you were surprised, who did you think was the murderer, and what was his or her motive?

7. How does the weather reflect the atmosphere inside Waverley Court?

8. How important is the Christmas holiday season to the story? How would the story have been different if set in a different season?

9. Death of a Cozy Writer belongs to the “fair-play” school of crime writing. Once you learned who the culprit was, did you feel the author had “played fair” in providing you the clues needed to solve the crime?

10. Discuss the author’s use of humor in the book. Is humor ever appropriate to a murder mystery?

11. Death of a Cozy Writer is also the story of a death in Violet’s past. How successful is the author in bridging the past with the present?

12. In what ways do you think Sarah’s future will be altered by the events of this book?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

G. M. Malliet has worked as a journalist and copywriter for national and international news publications and public broadcasters. She attended Oxford University and holds a graduate degree from the University of Cambridge-the setting for the St. Just mysteries.

Death of a Cozy Writer, her first mystery, won the Malice Domestic Grant. She has also won the Romance Writers of America’s 2006 Stiletto Award (thriller category).

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