This story made me uncomfortable. Apparently, a man persuades an elderly woman to sign over her property to him on her death bed. When the man a few weeks later - why wait so long? - informs the heir of the woman he has the deeds to the property no one asks the obvious question: where is the money you paid for it? No doubt it is legal to talk an elderly woman into signing over her property, but if the woman doesn't get paid a commercial value in exchange, it reeks very much of taking advantage of an old lady.

Now, Fiona only worried about losing the B&B, whereas she could have worried about not having an inheritance at all: no B&B and not a large sum of money the value of the property.

Same for Sheriff Crew Turner (what parent names their kid Crew?). He didn't ask the money question either. Which he should have, because that would have made Fiona's motive for murder much stronger. Because if getting the deeds to her inheritance is motive for murder, then getting the deeds without paying market value for the property definitely is. But good luck to the prosecution to find a jury that convicts the murderer of a man that swindled an old woman on her death bed out of her property.

That said, I'm not much impressed by Crew's police skills overall. Sure, as he tells Fiona, he doesn't have to advertise doing his job, but the little he shows of it doing his job, isn't great advertising anyway. For example, his crime scene is in the garden. He doesn't need to close the B&B and sent all the guests away to process his crime scene. At the very least not before he has taken witness statements from all the guests. One of the B&B-guests might be the murderer. It's much more convenient to keep them all nearby.

I'm on the fence about reading another one in this series. Fiona was OK as a narrator. I like some snark in a narrator. But as a character she was a bit aggravating. Perhaps I want a little more of her running her business in the story, rather than her running away from her business. (Though slightly forgivable here, as she was investigating whether she still had a business.)