Review: Like a train wreck…
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 19, 2014
In the author’s favor, I like how she unravels clues and we get to solve the mystery with Watts. I usually find that the guilty party isn’t someone I saw coming.  These are good things.Unfortunately, by this installment (I’ve read every one of the Mercy Watts adventures), I find the character rather irritating. She thinks negatively about everything. She doesn’t like animals, people ask her to do anything it is a drama episode that plays through in her head (before she concedes). She needs to stand up for herself more often and the fact that she doesn’t is irritating as a reader.In this book, her boyfriend’s mother’s dog is peeing on her all the time, but she still allows the mother to pawn the animal off on her every time she goes to leave the cabin.There is never any passion between Mercy and her boyfriend so I’m not sure why they are even together. Any good looking man comes within range and Mercy is picking up on it, with guilt closing in behind.This book is like watching a train wreck. You want it to be over, but you can’t stop watching.