Remembering the Dead is a delightful cozy mystery that you can curl up with.

This Penny Brannigan mystery begins when the famous Black Chair disappears from a private dinner/exhibition followed by the discovery of the body of one of the waiters. Penny then begins her quest to find out more information from different individuals in hopes of putting the pieces together and find the missing chair and killer.

I am not familiar with this series, but after finishing a different book with a more somber tone - this book came at the perfect time for me. It wasn't perfect, but I found it relaxing, plus I learned a bit of history as well that I wasn't expecting. In fact, I looked up the real Black Chair just to see it and it is quite something.

As a reader of mystery, I often times find the real pleasure in the book is trying to figure out who the culprit is by narrowing down from a sea of potential culprits and still not really knowing who it is by the end of the book. Because Remembering the Dead happens within a closed setting (someone's home) you might expect that multiple attendees were suspects or had conflicting testimonies or were able to tell just enough information that leaves you with more questions. However, I didn't really feel that this occurred and this is where my own conflict regarding the story comes from. While a lot happened at the party, I didn't really have a sea of potential culprits to select from and narrow down.

Overall, it was a pleasant read, but I just needed a little more.

Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Artist and spa owner Penny Brannigan puzzles over the theft of a poet's chair and the murder that goes with it in the newest mystery in this series set in Wales.

Wound around the challenging mystery of why thieves would pursue a prize awarded posthumously to a World War 1 poet is a history lesson about the actual poet and his home. Elizabeth Duncan's book is also a travelogue, as Penny takes the reader across country and on a ferry ride to Dublin

Penny is assisted by book regulars, including Victoria, her business partner; Mrs. Lloyd, a gossipy spa customers; and Jimmy, a reformed thief who consults from his wheelchair in the local nursing home.

I was able to obtain this free book for my honest opinion and I have to tell you this British cozy mystery checked all the boxes for me, a great book indeed. Remembering The Dead is the 10th book in the Penny Brannigan series by Elizabeth J. Duncan. In this book Welsh amateur sleuth Brannigan attends a formal dinner party at a posh country house. When every retires to the library for a private viewing of the Black Chair they are shocked to see the restored bardic chair is missing. To add to the mystery Brannigan finds a body.

Twists and turns and a theft gone wrong eep Brannigan busy until the end.

I highly recommend this book!