The Christmas Clue
16th November 2025
This is a fairly-cosy crime story set mostly during WW2 at a hotel in a Sussex village, and based on the creators of the board game Cluedo, and shows a fictionalised tale of them encountering a murder and inventing the game.
It's fairly short, but with substantial chapters. The plot moves quickly, introducing a lot of familiar concepts and references to the board game.
However there's some dark stuff comes up that for me rather took the fun out of it. It felt quite at odds with the "cosy" genre, and stopped my enjoyment of the final few chapters.
