This is book 9 in the series and while I haven't read any of the others (I've watched a couple of the movies), I was still able to follow on with the story. 
 The narration was good, I enjoy listening to Therese Plummer. Generally she has a good handle on accents and her voice isn't flat/ monotonous. 
 That said I did find this story a bit far fetched, the reasoning behind why Aurora's brother Philip (and his friends), getting kidnapped was ridiculous. I know there are spoilt, entitled kids out there but it wasn't believable for me. I also don't know what kind of police force that town has but when the town librarian is more into the investigation then the police there's a problem! 
 If you are a regular reader of the series, I'm sure you would appreciate the updates from the cast of characters in Roe's life. And I would definitely recommend this to someone who likes a mystery that doesn't have too much graphic violence, swearing or sex. 
 This wasn't a must read for me, I needed an audiobook for the car and this was it, I wouldn't read it again, it was a nice enough cozy mystery but I wanted and expected more. The ended was quite abrupt and while it did wrap up it felt like it was before there was a full resolution.