This was such a fun, engaging book! I loved the puzzles, as well as the storyline that accompanied them, and would recommend this as a fun gift for any puzzle enthusiasts!

My thanks to the author, NetGalley, and the publisher for the arc to review.

This is a good puzzle book. It's strengths lie in the continuous narrative which frames each puzzle, giving the reader the impetus to continue.

This book is best in paper format, as the e-book format does not lend itself to puzzling!

This will be a great Christmas stocking filler..

A puzzle book with a difference, I really enjoyed the way there was a continuing story to link all these puzzles. The story itself had the feel of an old fashioned detective novel and was fairly straight forward but it was an entertaining link throughout. The puzzles themselves were a very good range in type and difficulty and I thoroughly enjoyed working through it. If you have any friends or family members who enjoy puzzles, this would be a perfect little present for Christmas to see them through the winter months.

A murder mystery wrapped around lots of puzzles to solve. Some of the puzzles are solved in the time it takes to read them but others are more taxing and satisfying.

Difficult to give a proper review with only the electronic version. For me a hard copy would have been needed to solve all the puzzles and I resorted to pen and paper quite a lot.

Three stars rounded up to four because that is what I think a hard copy would be worth.

Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC

This was the perfect book for me, mystery, crime and puzzles is such a perfect combination. This would make be perfect for a family games night.

Being a fan of puzzling, treasure trails, escape rooms and such like, I really wanted to read this book. However, I must admit defeat on many puzzles which I really found either too difficult or non-engaging.

I guess it didn't help as I had an electronic copy.

Fun story though and a brilliant idea.

Thank you to the publishers and Netgalley for allowing me to preview this book.

#Netgalley #mystery #mysteryonthetracks #puzzling

I was really excited when I read the information about the book, but I am a little bit disappointed by the simplicity of the puzzles. I would have preferred them to be a bit more advanced. And like what others have said, some of the puzzles do not work in the electronic format.

Really like the idea behind this book, however, I found it difficult to properly engage with the activities due to hvaing the kidnle version of the book. I think my experience would be entirely different if I had a physical copy of the book, the formatting wasn't quite right which made it difficult to access the puzzles!
I will be purchasing a physical copy on the release date as I think I would really enjoy this :)
Thank you

Detective Adrienne Sanford of Scotland Yard is jaded following a long investigation into an unsolved jewel heist. Forced to take an enforced break, she decides to take a rail journey to Italy and finds herself investigating a murder.

Mystery On The Tracks one of the Collins Murder Mystery Puzzles merges a murder mystery with puzzles to solve. Each short chapter has a puzzle to solve. These puzzle range from solving Morse code messages through to Sudoku puzzles. There is a very varied mixture of puzzles, ranging in difficulty. Solving the puzzles is not essential to follow the story and solutions are available at the back of the book.

The murder mystery itself comes across as very traditional, in the style of mid-twentieth century British detective fiction. An easy read thanks to the short chapters.

My thanks to Clarity Media and NetGalley for a copy of “ Mystery On The Tracks “ 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 .

I enjoyed the puzzles in this book. I found the story somewhat of a distraction though and found my self skipping past it to get to the next puzzle. This worked alright and I didn't really feel like I missed much by engaging with it in this way. Some of the puzzles are real brain teasers which have been great, others fave been beyond me. I wouldn't recommend this as an ebook at all. The puzzles would be better to solve in hard copy.

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 green one. First up, in red, was a great selection of individual puzzles dressed as a silly narrowboat caper, and more recently a far too wordy and up-itself Midsomer-ish effort was in blue. Here, we're back with the sprightly, the lower word count, and the more enjoyable, as we watch a mature detective on a holiday trip to Italy. She's got her eyes on the art there, but taking a sleeper across the Alps a man is murdered, and a potentially priceless artwork goes AWOL. The broadest set of characters (and a small set, first class obviously being too pricey for many) act as suspects, and she reluctantly investigates – while every step of our path from first page to last involves one of a hundred different puzzles.

And once again, whatever the merits of the storytelling, the puzzles are the main reason to come here. The blend of the familiar – this has crosswordy things, revives that put-towers-in-order-depending-on-what-heights-you-can-see test, and even a river crossing logic problem – is with many new things (or at least, new to many before striking up with this set of books). It can frustrate, as all such books can, when a whole page is given over to the design and layout of the puzzle that might take about five seconds, but others are more taxing. Certainly the breadth here is the bulk of the appeal.

As for the story, well, it's not too bad – a woman thrown into the deep end when it comes to sorting out who is really who and what and why. But you really do have to take everything, from an impromptu skiing trip to so much else, with more than a pinch of salt; a lot of the time here it is just implausible. But it's fun enough, and not something that will suffer if the puzzles delay you too much. It also means there's more of an allowance for you to join in with the solving and investigations than was the case with the first book, but we are definitely here to just fill in the puzzle grids, and not try to replace the detective in her work. Being aware of that caveat emptor is about it when it comes to negatives, so this once again is a healthy four stars.

A fun and engaging puzzle book. Not ideal for e-reading, but interesting nevertheless! Mix of puzzle ability. I do think this loses something in the amount of exposition needed for each puzzle, combined with a lack of precise instruction for some of them. Overall, a fun and unique addition to the growing mystery-puzzle book genre.

I would prefer a physical copy of this book as some of the puzzles need a pencil and paper. There is a variety of different kinds of puzzles inserted into a murder mystery story. Puzzle lovers will enjoy it.