Awful characters and one of them calls everyone "chick" and the more likeable granmama (Marion) calls everyone "pet". The first term grates my nerves.

Just the bottom of the barrel. I think Betsy doesn't like old people and that's annoying; why bother to right about them if each page littered in "the aging couple" this and "the pensioner" that. To be honest I had gone into this book thinking the characters would be in their late 20s and possibly late 30s - the cover just eluded to that. Still, I can read about middle age and older people BUT when you make every character a hellspawn brimming with bile ... kinda hard to enjoy the book.

What did I like...what did I like...let's see

1. It was short, I don't think I would have continued if the end wasn't comfortably in the horizon.

2. I guess I liked the food littered throughout the pages. People were cooking sphagetti Bolognese on one page and devouring chocolate cake on another. There was roast beef, sizzling steak and Dominos Pizza. Some sandwiches had cameo appearences and chocolate had a recurring role.

3. The case had potential to be really good but even the police department was packed to the rafters with jackasses with the exception of Emily Hale or is her name Elly or Ella - see what I mean? Was it Elly Parker? I can't be bothered.
I mean as murder mysteries go this one was NOT average - I literally hated everyone I was meant to care about. Maybe Amy was bearable.

Meh...I'd chuck it in the fire but I'm a sucker for punishment. When I need a dose of completely unlikeable characters, I'll read the second book in this series and rail against them. One hopes they will be an improvement but one doesn't hold one's breath.