Arsenic and Adobo

Didn't love this - and I read it over such a long period of time that I kept forgetting who characters were or why they were important to the story. But we've established that I'm not much for civilians investigating murders, and the tone this struck was kind of off-putting to me - it was almost TOO light, and none of these people in the town seemed to care very much that people were turning up dead - no one behaved in a reasonable way around death. Did like the diversity of the characters and the restaurants around this town. Also, there are yummy-sounding Filipino recipes at the end, but strangely my copy (from Book of the Month, so I don't know if this was a pre-print run or something) cut off the end of the instructions for one of the recipes!