Monday, October 13, 2025

Murder Every Monday: Can't See the Forest for the Trees

 


Kate at Cross Examining Crime hosts a fun mystery cover game on Instagram called Murder Every Monday. Our assignment, should we choose to accept it, is to display book covers and/or titles  from books we own that match the prompts she posts in advance (see link).

This week's prompt is crime fiction with a forest or woods on the cover. Any that I have read have reviews linked.

The Babes in the Wood ~Ruth Rendell
The House of Care ~W. J. Burley

An Owl Too Many ~Charlotte MacLeod
Murder Misread ~P. M. Carlson
The Betrayal of Trust ~Susan Hill

The Markenmore Mystery ~J. S. Fletcher
The Sleeping Tiger ~D. M. Devine
What Beckoning Ghost ~Douglas G. Browne


Gownsman's Gallows ~Katharine Farrer
Gently Through the Woods ~Alan Hunter
Murders in Outline ~Anne Morice

Death Walks the Woods ~Cyril Hare
No Wind of Blame ~Georgette Heyer
The Dark Place ~Aaron Elkins

Miss Zukas & the Stroke of Death ~Jo Dereske
The Clue of the Screeching Owl ~Franklin W. Dixon

Hunt with the Hounds ~Mignon G. Eberhart
Season of Snow & Sins ~Patricia Moyes
The Deathless & the Dead ~Anna Clarke

The Arsenic Labyrinth ~Martin Edwards
When Maidens Mourn ~C. S. Harris 

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