Review: Far too light weight for my taste
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 03 18, 2013
I can see that my review is out of sync with the majority of reviews. I love good mysteries and many of the popular cozy mystery series. Elizabeth Peters' Amelia Peabody series and Sanda Balzo's Maagy Thorsen mysteries are examples of the kinds of books I enjoy in this genre. But I was completely off base when I picked this one up. I found the story shallow, predictable, boring, and disorganized. The characters were poorly developed and the scenes jumped around in a most distracting way. The story is set in Carlsbad, NM. Cinnamon and her visionary sidekick, Burro, are civil rights investigators. Cinnamon tries to take as many cases in New Mexico as possible because she believes there are clues to her missing mother's whereabouts in the region. There is a murder in the caverns and somehow Cinnamon and Burro become involved in the investigation. Of course there are ties to her long lost mother. The book ends abruptly, but I guess that is to encourage you to buy the next book. I, however, find reading one to be quite enough.