The books I read and loved in January.

It’s my favourite time of the month, where I share the books I’ve read, loved and would genuinely recommend to the people in my life.

I had a very murder-y month, reading three mysteries and one offbeat comedy.

Here are the books I read and loved in January:

The Search Party by Hannah Richell

The Search Party is a murder mystery sans the murder.

It follows married couple Max and Annie, who have left London to set up a glamping business on the rugged Cornwall coast. A few months after settling into their new life, the couple invite their old university friends and their families to visit for the weekend and test run the site.

What should be a fun weekend of catching up, turns into a nightmare when one of the kids vanishes just before a storm hits the coast. Soon, tensions boil over as old grudges and long-buried secrets come to the surface.

Read it if you liked: The Guest List by Lucy Foley or Force of Nature by Jane Harper

Big Swiss by Jean Beagin

Big Swiss is one of the most delightfully weird books I’ve ever read.

It follows 45-year-old Greta, a sex therapist's transcriptionist, who becomes obsessed with a patient named Flavia — a 28-year-old married gynecologist who’s never had an orgasm — who Greta calls ‘Big Swiss’.

When the two meet at a local dog park, they begin an affair.