I did not like it. None of the characters and their interactions seemed realistic.

After losing her job, divorcing, selling her house and most of her stuff (the rest she gave away) Jessie Henderson decides to visit her aunt Bee, without phoning ahead, with the intention to stay a while. Though aunt Bee is pretty much her favourite family member, Jessie hadn't told her yet she got divorced. Not that aunt Bee is sharing she has a suitor.

Okay, divorcee packs up her life and moves back to place she was happy in her youth. Not an uncommon trope in cozies. Not sure why Bee is Jessie's favourite family member, though. She's portrayed as a gossip and the town bully. Even police officers fear her wrath for not being polite enough when they tell her niece not to mind police business.

Jessie meets two women and a dog. She is so infatuated with the dog that Clarice (the owner) says Jessie can come over and walk the dog if she likes. Which Jessie does.

On her first walk with the dog, the dog gets away, but is caught by Mike (the town's mayor). Mike gives her a ride back to Clarice to drop of the dog, but Clarice house is dark and no one answers the door. This I find strange. If someone borrows your dog for a walk, you tell them you are going to be out later. Stranger yet: Jessie does not think it's odd Clarice didn't tell her she would not be able to return the dog.

Mike says he'll take care of the dog, and Jessie gives it to him. Despite it not being her dog and she knowing next to nothing of this guy. She doesn't even bother to ask for his phone number so they can be in touch about the dog.

The next day Jessie goes back to check on Clarice and hears she has been arrested. Jessie frets about that, and what that would mean for all the dogs Clarice keeps. Aunt Bee suggests Jessie speaks to the mayor about that. The mayor refers her to the chief of police. Who in turn let's her speak to Clarice who is being detained at the police station. For some reason Clarice does not yet have a lawyer.

Jessie starts to take care of the dogs, and stumbles upon some evidence Clarice is innocent. The police are not much interested in this evidence: if it is true, why did Clarice not bring this up herself? That's a good point. Clarice does very little to get herself off the list of suspects. For instance, she never mentions where she was the evening of the murder. It can't be that she was arrested already (too soon after the police discovered the body), so why not give an alibi?

Speaking of alibis:

Spoiler

Jessie realises there is a hole in the alibi of the real murderer. The police seem to believe her on this one, but rather than go back to two people that gave the murderer an alibi and question them about possible omissions in their statements, the police use Jessie as bait to entrap the killer. And rather than be angry with chief Daly for setting Jessie up to be killed (even it was her idea), Bee and Mike are angry with Jessie.

So yeah, not realistic, and because things were never explained, also not believable.