Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife is a deviously sharply funny standalone mystery by genre maven & historian Martin Edwards. Released 7th Oct 2025 by Poisoned Pen Press, it's a hefty 432 pages and is available in hardcover, paperback, audio, and ebook formats. It's worth noting that the ebook format has a handy interactive table of contents as well as interactive links throughout.
This is an exceptionally sharp and exceedingly intricately crafted mystery in the classic style, and with sly nods to Clue, Only Murders in the Building, as well as OG classics like Christie's Hickory Dickory Dock, and The ABC Murders . The limited suspect pool, the shrouded backstory filled in in small bits throughout, the isolated setting (snowed in and alone in an odd and unsettling village) all hearken back to golden age classics.
It's very long, possibly unnecessarily so, but it was generally fun to read. The author is clever and all the nuts and bolts function well. Well engineered is a good description.
Three and a half stars. It would be a good choice for library acquisition, home reading, or possibly as a buddy/book club read.
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.
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