murders. Leonor is a retired mercenary who has settled into a small sleepy town to open an inn. Think something along the lines of legends and lattes. However one day a mage checks into her inn and is murdered during the night. Due to an avalanche most travellers are stuck in town. With the influx of visitors comes new suspects and even more murder. This is like a somewhat locked room murder mystery set in a cozy fantasy town. The author did a good job establishing the world setting and the main characters backstory in a short amount of time. I did predict the ending but in the beginning it was a bit more twisty. The main character had a lot of interesting backstory but it was only told to us but had no real implications to the story. There are a lot of characters introduced and not a lot of them have important roles to play, they only had a few lines each. Many times it was just groups of characters together sharing information but none had significant time on the page. There were also a lot of M name characters, but again since they didn’t have large roles I couldn’t distinguish all of them. Overall it’s a fun shorter story, and it’s obvious the author put a lot of time fleshing out the main character and the setting but I wish there was just a little more to it. 

Thank you to NetGalley, Xpresso book tours and L Evans for this ARC