This book and I did not get along. The main character feels like she's a teenager rather than nearly 30 with the way she acts. The romance portion of this left a ton to be desired. And the cat chapters were absolutely pointless.

All of that AND the murder doesn't happen until almost 35% into the book. This was mostly about Whitney's life and not that much about an actual mystery. And about 20% of this book could have been eliminated (the cat chapters) with absolutely no effect on the story whatsoever. Not sure how any of this got past several editors, if I'm honest.

I only picked it up because I accidentally requested book 5 on NetGalley recently. I thought I'd start the series and before I read that one, but I think I'll just skip to #5 for review - which doesn't feel promising.