Detective Heather Vintner has been handed a challenging murder case in Ivyville and the neighbouring town of Upper Gorsetown in the beautiful English countryside. Heather has to work through the case slowly and methodically, and you are along for the ride.

I love murder mysteries, and with this book, you follow the clues and puzzles given in each section until you discover the murderer. As you go through the book, you are introduced to the suspects and work out clues to who did it.

Some of the puzzles are quick to figure out, and some take a lot more thinking and working out. Every puzzle is well explained and laid out, but if you get stuck the answers to each puzzle are at the back of the book.

This is a brilliant book to dive into when you have some free time. You can solve one puzzle in a sitting or five, it’s totally up to you. There are one hundred puzzles altogether to dive into and enjoy.

This is the perfect book for anyone who loves a good murder mystery and adores puzzles. It has all these things in one book, and so much more.

This was a delight of a book which kept me occupied and 'reading' for many hours. I have only just come upon this genre of book/puzzle and I am addicted!
The story line was whimsical and funny and I had a few chuckles at the sarcasm that came from the great detective. I did 'solve' the case and had my suspicions at the culprit but getting there was most of the fun.
The puzzles ranged from code cracking to sudoku to word searches and logic puzzles. Some of which I had never seen or done before. The also ranged from, got it in 5 seconds to flat out couldn't get it and had to ask my mate to look at the solution and give me a hint! Mostly though, they were extremely head scratching and fun without being arduous.
This was a digital copy but I really feel that I would have been able to work things out better, had it been a paper copy, and able to transport the book around easier too. In future, I would love to try a physical book because I am addicted and will be searching for more soon.

Thanks to Netgalley, Clarity Media, Collins and Dan Moore for the opportunity of reading the ARC. All opinions are my own.

My thanks to Clarity Media and NetGalley for a copy of “ Mystery At The Millpond “ for an honest review.

Unfortunately I can only give this an average mark as this format wasn’t really working on my Kindle , Im sure it would really be better as a physical edition .

Anyone who enjoys puzzles and/or mystery novels will want to take a look at this title. Within the framework of a traditional crime story readers find a number of puzzles; these are completed in order to solve the case. Some of the puzzle types may be familiar to solvers while others may be new.

Anyone who has happily purchased the Murdle books will enjoy this one as well. I plan to buy the hard copy as I think that I need pencil and paper to truly enjoy this one fully.

Many thanks to NetGalley and Collins Reference for this title. All opinions are my own.

If you're looking at checking out this series of puzzle books dressed as cosy crime dramas (or is it the other way round?!), this is the blue one. (First up, in red, was a great selection of individual puzzles dressed as a silly narrowboat caper – https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6874027952.)

This didn't get off to the right start with me – it was noticeably more wordy, and when one puzzle page contained one solitary anagram, it suggested too much effort had been put into the framing device of the fiction and not the puzzles. But certainly not enough effort – at one point the locals nosing around the murder scene of the book's title is "most of them" but three puzzles later "life goes on as normal for the vast majority". You can't have it both ways. And the first chapter alone seems to throw comment out about pub chips, blood stain removal, a landlord's plight, CCTV efficacy, and so much else of secondary use to the plot, if that.

Poor observational comedy ideas aside, the puzzles here are generally worth the admission. I felt a few were gratuitously given their own page when they could have been on the same sheet as the story snippet and instructions, instead, but what we get is a welcome blend of old (killer sudoku, bridges, code-breaking) with newer, such as a riff on the gogen I still routinely turn to first, and things that seem utterly bespoke. Were I to be in the market for this, as opposed to reviewing a digital copy, I'd still certainly appreciate the tests, which were fine and much more to my taste than the verbose crime drama was. Of the two, I think the orange volume gets the nod still – the puzzles perhaps gained from the surprise of their novelty, while some are brought back for this book, and even if the first book's fiction was more of an action drama than a murder mystery, the friendly, brief and more flippant sections of prose were superior to the over-long, over-earnest pages here.

A good variety of different kinds of puzzles inserted into a murder mystery story. Puzzle lovers and murder mystery lovers will enjoy it. This book definitely would be more enjoyable in a physical format.