Nina Fleet is enjoying her quiet life as a new resident of Cymbeline, Georgia. Well, there is the crazy man that claims he should have inherited the house she bought and threatens to sue, and the mayor just bullied her into opening a B&B. Otherwise, everything is peachy.

Nina's (pronounced Nine-ah) first guests are six nuns that are evicted from their convent because their lease is up. (This made me do a double take: the catholic church is renting property?) The landowner is pretty much the most hated man in town. He's deluded people into selling him their property cheap and he's even found a loop-hole in a contract with the town that enabled him to build four times more homes than the town had planned. (Again, double take: wouldn't the building license state exactly what he was supposed to build?)

Anyway, I've got him pegged as the eventual murder victim (setting the scene takes about 6 chapters), simply because there would be the longest list of suspects - pretty much everyone apart from Nina.

I like this cozy, perhaps because it doesn't do what I don't like in some others. Nina sleuths by way of talking to her neighbours. She isn't pushy, she doesn't demand private information from strangers and she doesn't break into other people's property.

And the Sheriff isn't stupid. I always like that. Very few stupid people in this book. Lots of strong female characters.

I read an ARC through Netgalley.