Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Puzzle Me a Murder | 2024 | Rosalind R.J Noonan | Buy |
| 2 | That Missing Piece Is Killing Me | 2025 | Rosalind R.J Noonan | Buy |
Rosalind Noonan’s Alice Pepper series offers cozy mystery readers a protagonist who approaches crime-solving like a puzzle. The two books follow Alice as she uses her analytical skills and curiosity to unravel mysteries in her community. This is detection through observation and deduction rather than police procedure, making it accessible to readers who prefer amateur sleuths to hardened detectives.
The series combines the puzzle club angle with mysteries that need solving, giving Alice both a social circle and a framework for her investigations. Noonan writes in the cozy tradition of murders that don’t overwhelm the story with violence and solutions that reward paying attention to clues. For readers who like their mysteries brain-teasers with heart, Alice Pepper delivers exactly that.