In Murder is Revealing Myaisha tries to find out who killed her friend Candance, but the more she learns about the business dealings of Candance, the more she wonders if she really knew her friend.

The plot sounds good and Myaisha is a likeable protagonist. She’s smart, successful in her work, and compassionate about her friends. There were two things that kept me from enjoying this story.

The first was the POV switches. Myaisha is the main protagonist, but sometimes the story switches to Detective Gamble, Candace’s husband Adán or another character to reveal some secret Myaisha is unlikely to find out. Because the POV lime light wasn’t shared equally, these side steps felt forced. As if there would not have been enough story to tell if only Myaisha was followed.

The other thing that made this story hard work was the narrative style. Its verbosity: hardly anyone in this story walks. They amble (15 counts), saunter (19), traipse (3) and even lumber rather than walk. The sentence structure to avoid the word she/Myaisha: “Typing resumed” On it’s own? (as a side note: Myaisha can type up patient notes while holding a conversation about a completely unrelated topic?) And sometimes the just plain odd choice of words: “she almost urinated when some rapped on the door” When you almost wet your pants when you get spooked, it’s a figure of speech. When the word urinated is used, it sounds more like a medical condition.

I read an ARC through NetGalley.