Little Bookshop of Murder

This could be a good cozy for people who really like Shakespeare or NC beaches! There's also a super cute parrot. :)

I have to say though, I personally didn't relate to the characters and found the mystery unfortunately easy to solve [even just saying that is a spoiler, I think]. The amount of anti-cozy and anti-romance sentiment felt unnecessary. I can see it being a fun twist for a cozy protagonist to have that attitude, but only if it's handled with humor; otherwise it can feel like the author is dissing the reader. But I can see how humor might not have been an option because the murder hit pretty close to home, which I also wasn't super comfortable with. Overall, I was hoping for a lot from this cozy, but the threads didn't quite come together for me.