This book was a struggle to get through. It picked up a bit in the last one hundred pages or so, but before that ... Meh. Too much whining about Bronson, her ex-fiancé, who, it seems during the time they were dating was as often a jerk to her as really charming. What does that say about you when you agree to marry someone that is only nice to you some of the time? (And how many hands does that guy have? At some point he is holding a bunch of flowers, her hand and manages to lift a bag of take-out.)

Tess sets out to find out the murderer, because her fingerprints are on the murder weapon and she doesn't want to go down for a crime she did not commit. As if a jury of her peers would not think the evidence against her was a little bit thin. What bothered me was that she just stepped up to people asked them questions and they answered them. Hardly anyone made a fuss. Why did Millie take Tess and Honey up to her hotelroom with her when they said they came to talk to her. She could have also said: "Well, I'm not in the mood to talk to you. Good night."

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Never mind that she left Valerie's jewels on her night stand. She wouldn't leaven her own jewelry out in the open like that. Why do it would jewelry she stole?

I'm surprised Analise was not considered more of a suspect, apart from that she probably didn't want to ruin her own wedding.

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If Tad really took out Dahlia twice a week for visits to the park and such. Then Analise probably already had her suspicions.

What bothered me in the end (and still does every time I see this cover) is

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why did Lidia and Valerie decide Valerie should be Dahlia's mother? Valerie doesn't seem to be the motherly type (and that is after she took care of a child for several years.) Couldn't they have spun a different yarn for Lidia's husband where Lidia takes care of the child? It would have made everyone a lot happier.