Since A.J. Alexander's husband left her for another man she's been feeling lost, but when her favourite Aunt Di is found brutally murdered A.J. seizes the opportunity to escape her Manhattan lifestyle for rural New Jersey. Diantha was a successful yoga guru with a lucrative yoga studio, but her strong opinions and determination to see her wishes carried out caused a lot of tension within the town of Stillbrook. A.J. soon finds herself under suspicion from a hunky local detective, so she decides to limber up and track down the killer herself.
As a fan of both cozy mysteries and yoga I have no idea why this sat on my TBR heap for over a year before I finally got to it. I absolutely loved this book, and am now kicking myself for not reading it before. A.J. is a great lead character who is believable and realistic, and who is a yoga novice (like me). She hasn't seen her aunt for a few years before the murder due to some tension with A.J.'s now ex husband, which means the reader gets to familiarise themselves with the setting of the book along with A.J. herself.
I also found A.J.'s British ex-actress mother Elysia to be well written and hilarious. The British slang and terms of endearment (e.g. 'Pet') also seeemed normal, unlike many books by US writers who get this horribly wrong. The hunky Detective Jake Oberlin is great as the police character who always shows up in cozies - thankfully he is well written (no cookie cutter characters here) and the only possible romantic interest in the book. A.J.'s ex husband Andy does appear in the book, but this doesn't come anywhere near the often tedious love triangles that are becoming more commonplace in cozies.
The mystery is well developed with gradual clues that I didn't put together until the very last minute. There are also several plot twists that I didn't see coming, and also lots of mini stories going on at the same time - like what is happening between Detective Oberlin and A.J.'s dog when her back is turned? The only thing that affected my enjoyment of the book was a couple of mistakes that had slipped past the editors (a neighbour lives both a mile and five miles away, and a chai latte suddenly becomes a cup of tea), but these were minor and rare (I only noticed the two).
All in all a fabulous cozy read that I thoroughly recommend to fans of cozy mysteries, yoga or both! I'm looking forward to reading books 2 (
Dial Om for Murder
) and 3 (
Murder on the Eightfold Path
) as soon as I can get my hands on them.
Plot: 10/10
Characters: 10/10
Ending: 10/10
Enjoyment: 9/10
Cover: 10/10
Overall: 49/50

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Listening Length | 8 hours and 49 minutes |
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Author | Diana Killian |
Narrator | Lauren Fortgang |
Audible.com.au Release Date | 15 August 2014 |
Publisher | Girl Detective |
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C. Manning
5.0 out of 5 stars
A perfectly posed murder
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 January 2011Verified Purchase
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kleiner Rabe
5.0 out of 5 stars
Funny, witty, worth reading
Reviewed in Germany on 22 August 2010Verified Purchase
For me this is the first murder mystery connected to yoga, so that is something new for a change. I enjoyed the story, the characters and immediately ordered the following two volumes. The mother-daughter relationship is very amusing and at the same time almost too realistic.

Sandra DiMaio-Leach
5.0 out of 5 stars
Delightful mystery
Reviewed in the United States on 1 February 2017Verified Purchase
I should say that unlike a few other readers, I found this book amusing. Perhaps you need to enjoy dry wit, throw away comments, basically the. type of humor which makes British mysteries in books and television so appealing to me. I found myself stopping every page or two to savor a comment and actually stopped reading to see if the author was English or not.
I am not a yoga buff and you don't need to be for this book. However the tiny bit of information provided about yoga made me feel perhaps I should learn more.
The writing is smooth, the language is clean and it is correctly identified as a cozy. I definitely want other books from this author and the rest of this series.
Thank you Miss Diana for the pleasure of this book. I couldn't put it down until it was finushed.
I am not a yoga buff and you don't need to be for this book. However the tiny bit of information provided about yoga made me feel perhaps I should learn more.
The writing is smooth, the language is clean and it is correctly identified as a cozy. I definitely want other books from this author and the rest of this series.
Thank you Miss Diana for the pleasure of this book. I couldn't put it down until it was finushed.

Amateur
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good read but too dear.
Reviewed in the United States on 11 February 2017Verified Purchase
I just pick up this book while the sery is already at #4. The mystery is good. The denial mother of her daughter happiness is to giggle and sometimes a bit annoying. All and all is a good read.
But..... not good enough to spend more than $8 (nearly $9 ) to know what's next, while there are other books of the same thickness and good read or even better read for half price cheaper. I think the price should be cut down.
But..... not good enough to spend more than $8 (nearly $9 ) to know what's next, while there are other books of the same thickness and good read or even better read for half price cheaper. I think the price should be cut down.
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Matt Conner
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Surprisingly fun!
Reviewed in the United States on 11 June 2008Verified Purchase
I came into this expecting something like India Ink's Bath & Body mysteries - fuzzy, New Age spirituality surrounding strong female leads investigating brutal murders while starting each day with an intricately described workout routine including yoga and Pilates. And I like that. But instead, I found a really great book with winning characters, wit, and very little actual yoga. The main character eats pre-packaged junk food and bacon! Very few poses are actually described, and of the 276 pages of story, fewer than twenty have a character really doing a pose. But the book still managed to grab me by giving me a lead I could believe in who inherits herself a world of trouble and tries to get through with the help of a charmingly self-centered mother, a gay ex-husband, and a hunky-but-distant local cop. I really look forward to the next book in the series - maybe there will be more yoga, but I don't think there needs to be if this is the kind of book we're already getting.
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