Yule Be Sorry
Beaufort Scales Mystery • Book 2
by Kim M. Watt
Why You'll Love This
Christmas decorations that explode, dragons with political problems, and two older women outsmarting everyone — this cozy mystery earns every bit of its absurdity.
- Great if you want: cozy British mysteries with genuinely charming supernatural elements
- The experience: light, breezy, and warm — perfect festive reading without saccharine sentimentality
- The writing: Watt balances dry Yorkshire wit with surprisingly deft comic timing
- Skip if: you need grounded, gritty crime fiction — dragons are non-negotiable here
About This Book
When someone starts passing off counterfeit dragon-scale baubles as the real thing — and those baubles have a troubling tendency to explode — it's not just Mortimer's artisan reputation on the line. With delivery drivers disappearing across the Yorkshire Dales and a trail of evidence pointing suspiciously dragonward, Alice and Miriam find themselves doing what sensible retired ladies do at Christmas: investigating kidnappings, dodging explosive decorations, and keeping the local constabulary firmly in the dark about the existence of dragons. The stakes are real, the chaos is escalating, and somehow everything has to be resolved before the holiday is entirely ruined.
Kim M. Watt writes cozy mystery the way it should be written — with genuine wit rather than forced quirkiness, and with characters whose warmth feels earned rather than manufactured. The interplay between the formidably capable Women's Institute members and their dragon allies has a running-joke quality that never grows stale, and Watt's Yorkshire setting is rendered with affectionate specificity rather than postcard vagueness. Readers who like their mysteries to move briskly while still delivering satisfying character moments will find this second Beaufort Scales installment hits exactly the right notes.