“Board games brought people together,” Ben Rosencrantz muses near the beginning of CJ Connor’s recent novel, Board to Death: A Board Game Shop Mystery. “They were the best thing I knew for loneliness or a longing for connection.”
Ben, the protagonist of this charming mystery, soon learns that board games can also lead to murder—not just in the game of Clue, but in real life.
When the novel opens, Ben has recently returned home to help his father, Martin, run Of Dice and Decks. The beloved