Quirky is probably the best word to describe this story.

When taking out the trash after work, Zoey Zastrow stumbles across a human skull and an employee card. When the skull moves Zoey runs home, but reports her find to the police the next day. By then, the skull is gone. The police dig around some - but don’t look in the trash - and when they find no further human remains the chief concludes there is no case.

New on the force detective Grayson Rivers believes Zoey there was a skull and when off the clock he helps her investigate the missing employee that had the employee card. Both make the assumption that because the skull and card were found together, they belong together.

Zoey starts asking around about Ginny Jones. This makes someone uncomfortable and they leave messages for Zoey to stop her investigation. Which Zoey, of course doesn’t. She does take some time to care for a stray dog and to paint Grayson’s apartment, and to lament the fact that because of their age difference he doesn’t want to date her.

The mystery was rather straight forward. Anyone with interesting things to say or show about Ginny pretty much just walks through the door (or waits for Zoey at her door).

The back and forth between the characters was amusing in the first chapter, but later on it got repetitive, tiresome and annoying. And I didn't care much for Grayson past chapter three.

I read an ARC through NetGalley.