I really enjoyed this mystery! It's very simple, but not boring and it's not difficult to figure out what's going to happen, but that didn't at all dampen the experience. 

There are two reasons it's not getting a higher rating. First is that I feel like Molly's character is very inconsistent. Although it's not outright said, it's clear that she's neurodivergent. In the beginning when we get to know the character, the author paints a very Stepford wives like picture. Molly is very set in her ways and beliefs. Quite rigid, even. One of her beliefs is that honesty is the best policy. And yet, in a certain scene, she lies with ease. She also has difficulties reading facial expressions, social cues, hidden meanings, recognising idioms, etc., so much so that, although being a fan of Columbo (a crime drama series), she fails to understand what the Detective means by 'dirt'. And yet at other times, she does almost all these things without effort. One could argue that, for a person on the spectrum, these things are learned, but it seems like her ability is only there when convenient for the story. Towards the end, her inner monologue and thoughts don't seem like her own either.

The second issue I had was that nobody in the book seemed to know about the autism spectrum or ND people. I'd have understood them not realising it if all the characters' communication was written or if the story wasn't set in current times. All of the characters had also known Molly for a while too, so I genuinely cannot fathom how there were so many clueless people among them who didn't realise she wasn't an imbecile or a freak, that they just needed to adjust how they communicate with her. But it's like ASD or ND people don't exist in this universe because nobody gets it. Acting like these things don't exist may have been a deliberate decision by the author, just like not outright saying that she's ND, perhaps because by not saying it, she thought she could afford the inconsistencies in Molly's character because "hey, I never said she was ND!". Because if the author had outright labelled her and kept the character consistent with her ND, the story wouldn't have worked the same way. I don't know. All I know is that it severely bothered me.

A bonus peeve: nothing being done about Wilbur.