A Killer in King's Cove

Writing: 4/5 - what's there is good, but there is a LOT of filler. Could have been 25% shorter. Much of the inner monologue for all the characters amounted to very little.

Characters: 3/5 - The main character (who I guess is central to the subsequent books based on the series title?) does almost nothing in this book. I live in BC, so was hoping for a sense of immersion and description of the majesty that I know is the Kootenay area where this is set. Very little of that is given. There's a town. A lake. Forests. A settlement. Could have been anywhere from how the book is written.

Plot: 3/5 - some neat devices and overall a tightly-crafted mystery, but so few characters that the whodunnit reveals aren't very impactful. The reveal could have been surprising, but it wasn't at all.