Member-only story
[2025 May Book Review] Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney
Book: Daisy Darker. Author: Alice Feeney. Genre: Mystery / Thriller. Year of publication: 2022. Publisher: Flatiron Books
Rating: 5/5 stars
Disclosure: I listened to this book on audio
*Note: For every book, I always try to summarize three things I loved and three things that might deter some readers. This is not a reflection on the authors or their skills in the craft, and I mean no disrespect. Not every book is for everyone. I’ll do my best with my review so you, my dear readers, can decide whether the story is for you. Also, I don’t summarize the premise or the plot unless they’re the items I loved on my list, as anyone can go to Goodreads and read the blurb.
Let’s begin with the three things I loved:
1. The classic closed-room mystery
I grew up reading Agatha Christie. I was and still am a HUGE fan of classic closed-room murder mysteries. While the recent surge of psychological thrillers adds more variety to spice up the mystery genre, I still find a classic mystery to be my safe space of nostalgia.
This book is exactly this — a classic mystery. It’s comparable to the forever-famous And Then There Were None by the queen of…
