Review: The Game is Afoot by Elise Bryant

Mavis is back, honing her amateur detective skills once again to solve another mysterious death. The Game is Afoot is the second installment in Elise Bryant's Mavis Miller series. This is a cozy and funny read. Bryant did not disappoint. Not only does Mavis have to solve a murder but she also has to interrogate the goings-on of a MLM, deal with her ex-husband and parent her-too-wise-before-her-time daughter Pearl. You will not be disappointed.

Thank you to #NetGalley, the author Elise Bryant and Berkley Publishing Group | Berkley for an e-copy of #TheGameIsAfoot in exchange for my honest opinion. The Game is Afoot is out today July 8, 2025. 

Since my last post I've read the following:

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

Read this for Banned Books Week

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Book #1 in the Hunger Games Trilogy eagerly waiting to read the other two plus I can't wait for the movie.

The Survivor by Sean Slater

School shooting, Asian gangs, crime underworld etc. I received this as a participant in the 2011Mystery & Suspense Reading Challenge. Review is forthcoming.

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger

Read this for Banned Books Week. Whenever a story is told from a teenagers point of view it's considered to raunchy and explicit, as if teens cannot express themselves. I didn't really like the main character, he was just too self absorbed.

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To Read: April/May 2011

Three of the books on my 'To Read' list

I love Kathy Reichs Temp Brennan Series so much so I have all of them and up to season 4 of the TV show Bones (which is based on the main character forensic anthropologist Tempreance Brennan). I love these books and can't wait to read 206 Bones). A few years ago I borrowed one of Laura Lippman's books from the local library and as a fan of crime fiction and series I decided recently to start from book one. 

I love Dawn French. If you are a fan of Brit Coms you know who she is, hilarious does not begin to describe how funny she is. My favorite show she stared in was Vicar of Dibly. I can't wait to read this and will do a review.