It took a while to get into this book.

Greta Plank has moved to Larkspur less than six months ago, running away from an incident in another life. In that time she has made friends with her colleagues at the library and with her neighbour that doesn’t seem to be friendly with anyone else.

It’s this neighbour she finds dead on his back deck. The new in town detective quickly marks her as a prime suspect. Set on proving him wrong, Greta is determined to find out who really killed her friend. Meanly dodging suggestions from her friends that there is romance in her future with the detective.

About halfway in I found the book had much improved from it’s start. That was until about the 90% mark. Then Greta sets herself up to be alone at the library with the person she suspects to be the killer. And added to her stupidity, she sends the detective a rather cryptic text rather than a straight forward “killer’s at the library”.

That the killer is even more stupid, is not a redeeming quality.

Spoiler

If they really thought no one has given them a second thought, they should have packed up their stuff and left when it looked like things were unraveling at the seems, rather than try to tie up a loose end.

I read an ARC through NetGalley.