I had to look back at my rating for TMC to rate this - there was a huge difference in how much I enjoyed this book (and I really liked the first one!)

The pace in this one was much better and I felt invested from the start - maybe helped by being a sequel. I found the characters much more enjoyable too as we were able to see more of their quirks and little traits.

As always, Elizabeth (and Richard) is much smarter than I am, and I was kept guessing until the very last page. I'll never be able to solve a murder like Elizabeth and Joyce can (because let's be real, Ibrahim and Ron didn't do a lot of solving in this book), but then again hopefully I'll never have to.

Very much looking to the third book and hoping it doesn't take me a year to pick up like this one did!