Corpse Pose

I should say that unlike a few other readers, I found this book amusing. Perhaps you need to enjoy dry wit, throw away comments, basically the. type of humor which makes British mysteries in books and television so appealing to me. I found myself stopping every page or two to savor a comment and actually stopped reading to see if the author was English or not.I am not a yoga buff and you don't need to be for this book. However the tiny bit of information provided about yoga made me feel perhaps I should learn more.The writing is smooth, the language is clean and it is correctly identified as a cozy. I definitely want other books from this author and the rest of this series.Thank you Miss Diana for the pleasure of this book. I couldn't put it down until it was finushed.

I just pick up this book while the sery is already at #4. The mystery is good. The denial mother of her daughter happiness is to giggle and sometimes a bit annoying. All and all is a good read. But..... not good enough to spend more than $8 (nearly $9 ) to know what's next, while there are other books of the same thickness and good read or even better read for half price cheaper. I think the price should be cut down.

I came into this expecting something like India Ink's Bath & Body mysteries - fuzzy, New Age spirituality surrounding strong female leads investigating brutal murders while starting each day with an intricately described workout routine including yoga and Pilates. And I like that. But instead, I found a really great book with winning characters, wit, and very little actual yoga. The main character eats pre-packaged junk food and bacon! Very few poses are actually described, and of the 276 pages of story, fewer than twenty have a character really doing a pose. But the book still managed to grab me by giving me a lead I could believe in who inherits herself a world of trouble and tries to get through with the help of a charmingly self-centered mother, a gay ex-husband, and a hunky-but-distant local cop. I really look forward to the next book in the series - maybe there will be more yoga, but I don't think there needs to be if this is the kind of book we're already getting.

Was it because I sat on a boat in beautiful Penobscot Bay reading this book that I gave it 5 stars? Even without my own setting I probably would have given it at least 4 and possibly 5 stars. This is the first in a new series. The author doesn't burden us with too much Yoga or too many odd sounding recipes. The main dish vegetarian recipe at the end sounded delicious.The heroine has had a tough year already when she learns her beloved aunt has been murdered. Her relationship with her mother, her aunt's sister, is not great. The characters are well done. The mystery was sufficiently mysterious to keep me unsure about the culprit. There are funny bits and serious bits. I will definitely read more of this series.

If you've got a bad back, then this yoga murder mystery might convince you to try yoga!! Diana Killian has created some big characters that you really care about as she explores yoga and murder in a small town setting. Yoga and murder? The two don't normally go together but Killian creates a storyline with the right peppering of humour that makes it easy to suspend disbelief and go along for the ride. There's romance and sleuthing mixed together with stretching and healthy eating... and an intuitive pet dog that makes you smile. I didn't discover this series until after I'd read Neil Pollack's yoga murder mysteries.... but now I am hooked and downloaded the entire Kindle series! Thanks Diana!

Only start when you have time to finish as you will keepthinking just one more chapter as it keeps you on theedge of your seat.

enjoyed for a light read

Good plot, interesting and well drawn characters and subtle yoga motif running through. However, there were times in the story when the opportunity for edge of the seat suspense was there but the writer seemed to pull back and miss the chance. Perhaps she was conscious of not venturing too far into the unbelievable and the unrealistic but, let's face it, the idea of a yoga teacher solving murders requires the reader to suspend disbelief anyway so why not go for broke? There were unsettling scenes but not much real suspense. Is it stylistically unfashionable these days for mystery writers to write truly scary, alone- in -a dark- house, shadows- on- the- walls terrifying stuff? This story certainly fits the comfy mystery genre but perhaps it is just a little too comfy. And why does a female protagonist always have to have a big, strong man/love interest hanging around? He is quite a boring tit, too. Nevertheless, I cosied up with a coffee or two and quite enjoyed the escapism.

Since A.J. Alexander's husband left her for another man she's been feeling lost, but when her favourite Aunt Di is found brutally murdered A.J. seizes the opportunity to escape her Manhattan lifestyle for rural New Jersey. Diantha was a successful yoga guru with a lucrative yoga studio, but her strong opinions and determination to see her wishes carried out caused a lot of tension within the town of Stillbrook. A.J. soon finds herself under suspicion from a hunky local detective, so she decides to limber up and track down the killer herself.As a fan of both cozy mysteries and yoga I have no idea why this sat on my TBR heap for over a year before I finally got to it. I absolutely loved this book, and am now kicking myself for not reading it before. A.J. is a great lead character who is believable and realistic, and who is a yoga novice (like me). She hasn't seen her aunt for a few years before the murder due to some tension with A.J.'s now ex husband, which means the reader gets to familiarise themselves with the setting of the book along with A.J. herself.I also found A.J.'s British ex-actress mother Elysia to be well written and hilarious. The British slang and terms of endearment (e.g. 'Pet') also seeemed normal, unlike many books by US writers who get this horribly wrong. The hunky Detective Jake Oberlin is great as the police character who always shows up in cozies - thankfully he is well written (no cookie cutter characters here) and the only possible romantic interest in the book. A.J.'s ex husband Andy does appear in the book, but this doesn't come anywhere near the often tedious love triangles that are becoming more commonplace in cozies.The mystery is well developed with gradual clues that I didn't put together until the very last minute. There are also several plot twists that I didn't see coming, and also lots of mini stories going on at the same time - like what is happening between Detective Oberlin and A.J.'s dog when her back is turned? The only thing that affected my enjoyment of the book was a couple of mistakes that had slipped past the editors (a neighbour lives both a mile and five miles away, and a chai latte suddenly becomes a cup of tea), but these were minor and rare (I only noticed the two).All in all a fabulous cozy read that I thoroughly recommend to fans of cozy mysteries, yoga or both! I'm looking forward to reading books 2 ( Dial Om for Murder ) and 3 ( Murder on the Eightfold Path ) as soon as I can get my hands on them.Plot: 10/10Characters: 10/10Ending: 10/10Enjoyment: 9/10Cover: 10/10Overall: 49/50 Dial Om for MurderMurder on the Eightfold Path

For me this is the first murder mystery connected to yoga, so that is something new for a change. I enjoyed the story, the characters and immediately ordered the following two volumes. The mother-daughter relationship is very amusing and at the same time almost too realistic.