Brigid was glad to have a new home in her hometown of Cottonwood Springs, CO. Meanwhile, two adulterers were thinking how convenient it would be if the person standing in their way—the wife—were dead.
As you read through the simple and rather engaging narrative, you see the potential suspects piling up. Several people had it in for Lucy. They couldn’t wait to get their revenge on her. The story does take a while as it goes around giving out all the potential suspects BEFORE the murder even happens. Meanwhile, we’re getting into Brigid’s possible new romance situation with her new neighbor. Like I said, it was slow. It kind of made me wonder when we would get to the dead body already. When was that going to happen? Don’t get me wrong, it was still a nice read. Still, someone was going to kill Lucy, right?
Finally, the dead body was discovered at the 50% mark. It was kind of a long time for the body to show up, but, fortunately, the read was short and light, which made it easier to get through. It was interesting because usually we get the list of suspects AFTER the murder, but here we get it way before so it gets our minds speculating right off the bat. Once Brigid starts investigating, it’s really just a process of elimination.
What makes it a 3-star read was all the wasted narrative on trivialities. Did we really need a whole chapter on Brigid at the shooting range and learning how to shoot a gun? No, we didn’t. Another thing that bugged me was that the story too often relayed the same info—what readers already knew—over and over again.
This was almost a 4-star read, but
it wasn’t quite there for me. It was a decent and mild mystery. I might check
out the rest of the books in the series...or I might not.
Rating:
3 stars
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