I’m on the fence about this one.

The mystery is interesting: a book club member is killed and there are plenty of people who disliked her - as in all the other book club members. But what mainly puzzled me was not so much who killed the book club member, but why stay in a book club where you don’t like the other participants? I’m sure at least half the book club members had better things to do with their spare time.

With plenty of animosity between her guests Charlotte slowly picks her way through clues that are piling up. The members of her own book club have some useful information about events both recent and in the past. Charlotte even enlists her friend Gavin to dig some through the databases he has access to through his work (I doubt he is allowed to peruse those out of personal interest).

But, but, I never really got into the story. There is something about Charlotte and her friends that makes me want to avoid them.

The setting reminds me of the Georgie B&B series, and I’d much rather be reading those.

I read an ARC through NetGalley.