Murder on a Scottish Island is the second light historical cozy featuring Lady Poppy by Lydia Travers. Released 8th Sept 2025, it's 352 pages and is available in paperback and ebook formats. It's worth noting that the ebook format has a handy interactive table of contents as well as interactive links and references throughout. For Kindle Unlimited subscribers, this book is currently included in the KU subscription library to borrow and read for free, alongside the other book in the series (as well as much of the author's oeuvre and other series).
This is a fun and well written historical cozy with an appealing cast set during the early 1920s in Scotland. The plot is well organized and the characters are rendered (mostly) believably. It's a historical cozy, so there are some period appropriate bits of dialogue and commentary which give the book a historical feel, but not so much as to be awkward or yank readers out of their suspension of disbelief. It's a light read; there's no graphic violence or rough language. Well written and civilized, readers who enjoy early golden age mysteries will likely find it, and the first book in the series, appealing.
Four stars. It works perfectly well as a standalone read, but readers who enjoy series cozies will enjoy the first, and it would make a nice short binge/buddy read. Book 3 is due out in March 2026.
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.
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