Lori
The book starts off with a ton of background information and throughout the book you meet person after person. It’s a little much to take especially considering the character has been living in the town for some time and there is history we haven’t experienced. All this bogs down the story and was a little too much for the first book of the series.
I was hoping the cat, Eddie, would be more involved but it’s the bookmobile lady, Minnie, who is the driving force of the story. The cat was honestly so good, he is part normal cat and part murder solver. He doesn’t outright help but drops little hints throughout the book and was the one that helped Minnie find the body.
The mystery wasn’t bad, but the author definitely writes the main character as a normal person who tries to investigate for the first time ever. It’s partly refreshing to have a normal person and not a secret super sleuth. Although this does mean there is a lot of repeating information and the investigation is not efficient. In the end it’s the cops that catch the killer, so it was partly a waste of time. With both the introduction to so many characters and the amateur sleuthing this story is very slow and info heavy. I did admire how the author chooses to have the main character be a normal person who is realistically shaken by seeing a dead body and is learning to investigate.
The setting is a nice small summertime tourist town. Any scene with the book mobile added to the cozy friendly feel of the book. There is a love interest introduce in this book, but it’s not framed as the main focus, which is nice.
The book starts off with a ton of background information and throughout the book you meet person after person. It’s a little much to take especially considering the character has been living in the town for some time and there is history we haven’t experienced. All this bogs down the story and was a little too much for the first book of the series.
I was hoping the cat, Eddie, would be more involved but it’s the bookmobile lady, Minnie, who is the driving force of the story. The cat was honestly so good, he is part normal cat and part murder solver. He doesn’t outright help but drops little hints throughout the book and was the one that helped Minnie find the body.
The mystery wasn’t bad, but the author definitely writes the main character as a normal person who tries to investigate for the first time ever. It’s partly refreshing to have a normal person and not a secret super sleuth. Although this does mean there is a lot of repeating information and the investigation is not efficient. In the end it’s the cops that catch the killer, so it was partly a waste of time. With both the introduction to so many characters and the amateur sleuthing this story is very slow and info heavy. I did admire how the author chooses to have the main character be a normal person who is realistically shaken by seeing a dead body and is learning to investigate.
The setting is a nice small summertime tourist town. Any scene with the book mobile added to the cozy friendly feel of the book. There is a love interest introduce in this book, but it’s not framed as the main focus, which is nice.