Death by Dumpling

There was something missing here for me. The MC reads a little young, she’s 27 and maybe I have forgotten how young that is or she’s a bit immature.

Her mother really wants her to get a boyfriend (I’m so over this trope) and even the MCs best friend wants her to find a boyfriend. Because men solves all problems.

The love interest is detective Trudeau so my brain flashed an image of Justin Trudeau every time he was on the page and it was not good. I found him annoying and obsessive and treated her as a child, they’ve just met a few times and of course he has treated her as a suspect at first and then he’s just telling her what to do and gets angry she doesn’t. One times he catches her and her best friend sleuthing and starts yelling at the MC and when her best friend tells him off, “Don’t even get me started on you, young lady.” Half expected her to shout back, “You’re not my dad, you can’t tell me what to do!” but luckily that didn’t happen.

Not much of a mystery or sleuthing and what I want from a cozy mystery, is a mystery, I’m always looking for a puzzle.