Works best if you like over-the-top characters and situations. I don’t, at least not at the moment. So I took this story probably way too seriously.

After a nasty fall where she bumped her head, Kalli can hear people’s thoughts when she touches them. This comes in handy when a man is found dead in the shop of her friend and roommate/landlord, and the friend is the main suspect. Only problem is, Kalli has severe germaphobia and doesn’t like touching people.

For whatever reason, everyone, including the detectives on the case, assume the victim was shot to hurt Jaz (Kalli’s friend). It’s not until almost 80 pages after the murder that one of cops says that is possible the killer was one of the victim’s enemies.

Shouldn’t that have been their first assumption? Rather than the assumption the killer cares so little about human life in general they would kill, in cold blood, a complete stranger?

I don’t like the case detective much. Obviously he’s going to be the love interest, because Kalli is attracted to him (and her mom would have introduced the two if they hadn’t met under different circumstances already). But he immediately starts saying she should butt out of his case. Even before she has done anything butt-in worthy.

Everything she does he finds “butting in to his case”. While his case should have been, who wanted the victim dead? His case, at first at least, should not have been who hates Jaz? Jaz did not file any complaints with the police about the acts of vandalism against her car or her home. Therefore, there is nothing there for the police to investigate.

Also, when a murder happens in a small town, neighbours are bound to talk to one another about what they have seen and heard. That’s not butting in to a police investigation. That is called gossiping.

Anyway, by the time the cops realise they’ve been looking at the wrong angle, even more stupidity by cop is disclosed:

Spoiler

- they team up with their former main person of interest and her roommate for the investigation;
- they did not ask the widow of the victim where she would be staying;
- when checking the background of the victim (after they learned his real name, by the way: wouldn’t that have been the name on his driver’s licence?) they had not found out he had a twin.

They claim they are good at their job, but none of that should have happened.