*I received a copy of this book on NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you to the author, publisher, and NetGalley for this opportunity*

A tongue-in-cheek historical murder mystery, A MOST AGREEABLE MURDER is a fun, twisty, and very Clue-like story set in Regency England. Despite the rigid expectations of being a proper lady, Swampshire native Beatrice Steele has found herself in love... with murder. Well, more like reading about the murders solved by her favorite London detective. Under the guise of swooning over her crush, Beatrice locks herself in her room for hours fawning over newspaper clippings and theorizing on who-dun-it.

However, things get a little too close to home when the most eligible bachelor in town, Edmund Croaksworth, suddenly dies at the season's most-anticipated ball. Despite the impropriety, Beatrice decides to partner up with the conveniently present London detective (NOT the one she reads about, mind you) and solve the murder-- before anyone else ends up dead in the swamp water.

This book is a very heavy handed parody, and shouldn't be read by anyone other than someone looking to laugh. There were red-herrings abound, Jane Austen references at every corner, and plenty of low-brow humor (which is to be expected when the setting is literally a fictional town built on a swamp). A MOST AGREEABLE MURDER is pretty silly book-- but that's honestly part of the fun!