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Date read: July 9, 2025
Monthly Murder Movie Club
1. Murder on a Monday - Paperback | Kindle
2. Murder on a Tuesday
3. Murder on a Wednesday
4. Murder on a Thursday
Marcy Blesy
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Synopsis (Goodreads):
Murder: best served with popcorn.Thoughts on Murder on a Monday: I'm going to preface everything here by saying I don't care for present tense writing. It's a me-thing. Seriously. I own this. Present tense is so distracting for me that I can't focus on the actual events of the story. The fact this book was in present tense might have led to me not hand-waving plot points as I sometimes do when I'm more engaged in the story itself. Keep that in mind as you read this review.
That’s the mantra for the members of the Monthly Murder Movie Club at The Northwoods Movie Theater. Every month, this eclectic group of northern Michigan residents gather to watch a murder mystery movie on the big screen. After stopping the projector in the middle of the movie, the members gather to discuss the crime and suspects, each making a whodunit pick before resuming the movie. The hair dresser with the scissors? The jilted lover with poison?
But nothing is normal on this Monday morning when the club members find the ticket-taking popcorn maker John E. Cash in the lobby of the theater, deader than any actor in their beloved movies. Using their unique talents and eccentricities, the Monthly Murder Movie Club members work collectively to solve the crime before the Northwoods Police force does. Members strive to protect the reputation of their beloved theater--and to protect their Monday meetings--because what each member is discovering is that there is so much more to their Monday club than a good old-fashioned murder mystery.
So. The whole idea that this group of individuals whose only experience with solving crimes comes from watching mysteries on the big screen and then trying to figure out (often incorrectly) who did the deed AND they willingly removed crucial evidence from the scene of the crime just hit me wrong. These people barely seem to tolerate one another, but they thought they could work together and investigate better than the police?
This book is billed as being about found family, but I never got the feeling these people would spend time with one another outside their murder movie hobby (and while investigating an actual murder, I guess). They poke fun at one another, gossip like its going out of style, and are pretty darn critical. TO BE FAIR, that IS sort of like family, so maybe they are found family. I don't know.
The fact one of them removed evidence from a crime scene and everyone else just sort of went along with it was the breaking point for me. The reveal was less than satisfactory, but it very much might have been that I was already disengaged because of the whole present tense thing. Again, I own this. There are plenty of people who do enjoy present tense writing. I am not one of them. In the end, this book just wasn't for me.
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