Bit dull.

The story is a bit repetitive. The days seem to go like this: Jules walks (or drives her golf cart) around the site of her resort and talks to a few people. The next day, Jules walks around the site of her resort and talks to a few people. Not even the people she talks to seem to differ much.

There are a few outliers, when she packs up the stuff of a deceased, or when she snoops around in the tiny house one of her guests is staying. The later is unethical, and using her cleaning staff as a cover even more so.

There doesn’t seem to be much work to do on the resort for Jules, or at least it is rarely mentioned that she does any. She does wander around the film set (on the resort) a lot and everyone always has time to chat with her or is okay with her just hanging around.

And Jules goes out to lunch a lot with her friend Pixel, who has to drive out for at least twenty minutes to get to Fern Valley (so probably also doesn’t have much to keep her occupied in her day job).

Anyway, I found the story far from gripping. Despite the large cast of characters that could have made the story interesting, the plot failed to be entertaining. Too much of the same thing happening, not enough speculation about whodunnit. (The story failed at making more than one character stand out as a possible suspect.)

There were some minor editing issues. A character’s name changed from one paragraph to the next and while Jake had ordered spaghetti he ate a sandwich (and then settled the bill twice).

I read an ARC through NetGalley.