Moonlight Can Be Murder. is a book of contrasts: friendship and distrust, love and hate, danger and safety, light and darkness. Ned and her friends Pat and Jackie decorate Granger’s Mansion for Christmas with red ribbons and candles, flames leap up Ned’s fireplace casting flickering shadows on the wall, Jackie plans a Christmas party, and Pat gets the church all decked out for a special night. But, just outside the light, danger lurks and mystery crouches in the darkness, ready to spring.
What is the appeal of cozy mysteries? I think it’s the contrast between being scared breathless and the warmth of firelight and friendship, the difference between danger and safety, tension building until the end of the book.
In the dense darkness of midnight, even a candle sheds a welcome glow. So it is with a cozy mystery. Evil may obscure the light, but we know that by the end of the story, light will dawn and good will triumph.
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