A Murder on the Mountain Book Review

A Murder on the Mountain

Meg Reed Investigates Book 1

By: Ellie Alexander

Publish Date: July 21, 2025

Publisher: Storm

General Fiction (Adult)/Mystery and Thriller

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I would like to thank both Storm Publishing and NetGalley for allowing me to read and review this book. All opinions are my own.

Book Review:

This is a new cozy mystery series that Ellie is writing. It is a little different than what I am use to reading but I still enjoyed it once I got into it. I gave the book 4 stars and can’t wait for the next installment.

This is about Meg who is having a hard time getting over the death of her father. He was a well-known journalist which is why Meg study to be one. She is living with her college friend Jill who is very supportive of her and worries about her also.

Meg gets a job with Northwest Extreme magazine and finds herself hiking to places she has no business doing. She kind of lied on the application and now finds herself hiking up a mountain. Oh, Meg has one major problem, she is deathly afraid of heights. On her first hike things don’t go well and then one of the contestants goes over a cliff. Meg witnesses the whole thing and realizes that he may have been pushed instead of it being an accident.

Her boss tells her to leave things alone and let the police handle it. This wouldn’t be a cozy mystery if the main character does what they are told. She decides to investigate because that is what she studied to be, a journalist.

I really enjoyed the friendship in this book between Meg, Jill and Matt who was also from her college days. Her boss wasn’t bad either. Meg really loves her Gam (Grandma) and has a love hate relationship with her mom.

The book leaves you on a small cliff hanger, so it makes you want to read the next book. Which of course I will.