Hmmm, I was actually pretty disappointed with this book! I just never really got into it... The murder happens right off, but I felt our girl Tricia was kind of a flat character and it just wasn't very exciting overall. Things finally got interesting half-way though and picked up a little bit, but then I was also disappointed in how the end was resolved. Not the actual way it happened, but more the way it was written. I'll still read the second because, well, I already have it. I'll give this series another chance! We'll see. 
 Review as originally posted on The Book Addict's Guide: Well, sad to say, I was actually really disappointed with this book. I couldn't even write an unbiased synopsis of the book -- It all turned out snarky! It starts right off with Tricia running her bookstore (which the book description is misleading since she's already been in NH for 6 months, not "brand new" to the country life, and they never really talk about her being from the city. The story/plot itself was enjoyable. I just didn't like the way the book was put together very much. Tricia was kind of a flat character to me and I didn't feel like we got a whole lot out of her. So much more character was put into her sister, Angelica. I didn't feel like the investigating really took off and the plot didn't "thicken" so to speak until about halfway through the book until they threw some twists in. The ending was interesting, yet predictable, and I didn't like how that was all resolved either. I really just felt like it was kind of poor writing. I also really wanted a lot more references to the mystery writers/stories that she sells in her shop since she was supposed to be "taking a page out of" her own niche.