Started reading this on a whim. Got a message on my Kindle that I could read it for free if I started in the next 24 hours. The first few pages grabbed me so I kept on. Turned out to be a solid, if unexceptional little mystery. Almost immediately there are a lot of balls in the air—multiple mystery threads to be followed. The author does a good job keeping the story lines moving along and me moving from short chapter to short chapter. While reading I kept having the thought—maybe one more rewrite would have helped shore up the characterizations, fix some dialogue and add in some scenes that seemed to be missing. Later I realized the author had written nine books in this series in three years. Kinda shows. This is a good set up for the other books, some angsty character territory to mine but the tone and tenor of this one does not tell me they will be mined very deeply. For a book about detective work, not nearly as much of the story is detected as it is exposition dumped by suspects or suicide notes. And how many hired killers weapon of choice is to blunt object their victims. Speaks to me of possible job dissatisfaction.