A Grid For Murder: A Mystery By the Numbers, by Casey Mayes
Published by Berkley Prime Crime, 2012
Review first appeared on Cozy Little Book Journal on September 8, 2013
It's a good little cozy, or rather it's almost a good little cozy. My main problem with it is the flaw in the lead character's logic. The amateur sleuth, Savannah Stone, makes the same leap of logic when trying to solve a murder that nearly all cozy sleuths make: she is so obsessed with finding people with motive that she completely ignores means and opportunity. Who was actually in the area when the victim was killed? Who could have had access to her in the time period before she died? She's focused solely on the "why" and not the "how."
