ppcfransen 's review for:

Peaches~N~Creamed by Karen C. Whalen
2.0

Jane Marsh first fumbles a Murder Mystery Game at a B&B and the next morning stumbles upon a murder. While Jane, her fiancé and their friends do the tourist thing (visit the peach festival, local wineries, etc.) and Jane and Dale make their wedding arrangements, Jane ponders about who could be the murderer. She soon finds that almost everyone she considers a suspect is also someone she wants to do business with for her wedding. That makes her all the more determined to solve the case, as she can't do business with a murderer.

Though the mystery is interesting, I never really got into the story. I found the narrative boring. In particular, the paragraphs that detailed where everyone moved (Jane went X, Doug and Dale went Y, then Olivia and Jane overtook them to go Z.) I guess I like the stories with a close third person narrative or first person narrative better. Stories where there is more running commentary from the main character.

Here, there isn't much commentary on the events of the story and where there is, it isn't always clear who the commentary is coming from. For instance the comment: "Olivia was going a bit too far now." Was that Jane's opinion or the author's?

It does get better later on, when Jane is on her own. But that's so far into the book, if I hadn't received this book for free in exchange for a review (and wanted to make an honest effort for a review), I probably would have put it on my maybe-later stack already.

I read a copy of this book through Netgalley.