Review: I Would Label This a Cozy Mystery
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 5, 2012
Small town cozy in which a widow returns to live with her aunt after an unsatisfactory experience with a Big City accounting firm. She has dumped on her the chore of administering the efforts of her aunt's woman's club to conduct the town's annual Thanksgiving celebration. In the midst of her maddening efforts, murder occurs, she discovers the body and is brought into the orbit of the Police Chief (filling a post her husband had held before killed in the line of duty). Her interactions with the townspeople (all well known to her), the police chief and the murder investigation, comprise the contents of the book. I would not label it a Romance as some have. While, as is true of many cozy's, romance rears its head, it does not dominate.The heroine is a congenial character, the Chief is not a blusterer nor know it all, most of the townspeople are more individualized and human than the stereotypes one usually finds and the plot is reasonably coherent. There is a certain amount of clutter as the book nears its denouement and multiple suspects still are in the running. Noticeable-though not particularly disturbing.All-in-all, a good entry in the 'light cozy mystery with a touch of humor and romance' category.