Review: Skip this one
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 12 17, 2011
I love murder mysteries, so I was pleased to get this on my Kindle for only .99, but even that was a waste of money.  Lacy Steele isn't even a very likeable character.  For someone who sees herself as a sophisticated former New Yorker, in many ways she still seems like an insecure high school sophomore.  Her character vaccilates from tough to blubbering just too much to be believable.  She obviously expects former acquaintances to be frozen in time, just as she seems to be.  As for the plot, it is weak at best.  Too many things just aren't credible, and it seems that the author is really reaching just to come up with a plot.  There are also many, many tired stereotypes:  senior citizens who ALWAYS eat bran muffins with their coffee, the blustering police detective who won't listen to reason and tries to intimidate everyone else, the mean high school queen who was still mean in her 70's--well, you get the picture.  I'm sorry to seem so unsympathetic here, but there was hardly any suspense at all, and Lacy Steele, who apparently will be the star of more books in this series, is just boring.  I just wanted someone to shake her and say, "Get a life, for Pete's sake!"  What could have been an interesting book just fell flat for me.