I learned something today, while reading A Shot of Murder: I like cozy mysteries to be set in happy places where people actually want to live (despite the high murder rate). Not some place where everything is depressing and people seem to have actually given up trying to make a go of it.

Not very surprising Charlotte left the town of Gett at the soonest opportunity. Ten years later she's back to take care of her grandfather after he had a heart-attack. For that and other reasons, it's not a happy return, and then she finds a body in a cask of whiskey and her grandfather is arrested on suspicion of murder.

The plot is interesting and kept me curious. The description of the surroundings, the people and the food made me depressed.

And a few things annoyed me: Charlotte keeps knocking over things that are way bigger than her. She knocks over a cask of whiskey (filled with body and whiskey, that should be more than 500 pounds. Not something you'd knock over accidentally). She manages to push the sheriff out of his seat by merely getting up.
Charlotte seems to have gone to high-school with most of the people that get a speaking part in this story. That makes no sense as the murder did not take place at a class reunion.
Charlotte has a GPA of 4.0. This doesn't really mesh with the fact she chose a career she's not actually very good at (or seems to enjoy much).

A read and ARC through NetGalley.