Started out all right, but towards the end I was getting irritated with the lack of sleuthing.

After the death of her twin sister, whom she hasn’t spoken too in ten years (the sister didn’t even reach out to her when she knew she was terminally ill) Dahlia transplants herself to take of her sister’s inn and daughter. She soon finds herself intrigued with murder.

Dahlia is very self-aware and likeable for it. Detective Owen is a little too friendly. Particularly when he let’s Dahlia and her niece Danny tag along on his investigation (and doesn’t he need a warrant to remove someone’s trash from their garbage can?) or when he asks Dahlia to sit in on his interviews with the restaurant staff because he doesn’t have a colleague he can bounce ideas off. Not that he actually bounces ideas off Dahlia. Her task is to find a document that Owen could have easily found himself.

Dahlia is charming, but I don’t like the way the author is shoehorning her into this investigation. Owen let’s her watch when he interviews possible suspects, removing any reason Dahlia could have to go sleuthing herself. I would have preferred had she interviewed possible suspects on her own.

I read an ARC through NetGalley.