Author: Lynn Cahoon
Published: June 4, 2024 by Kensington
Format: Kindle, Paperback 200 Pages
Genre: Amateur Sleuth
Source: My thanks to Netgalley and the Publisher for the opportunity to read an advanced copy of this book.
Series: A Tourist Trap Mystery #16
First Sentence: The business-to-business meeting for May was stuffed with agenda items.
Blurb: In the coastal town of South Cove, June is tourist season—and wedding season. Unfortunately, Jill Gardner’s own wedding has been delayed. But that just gives her more time to search for a missing bride—and a killer. (GoodReads)
My Opinion: It seems like more of an outline with inconsistent parts. I found myself thinking -- that is not what you said a couple of pages ago. Maybe Lynn Cahoon has too many books in progress and cannot remember her previous paragraphs or where she wanted a book to go.
With a local woman missing, you would have thought that more people in this close-knit small town would be upset or out looking for her -- but then again -- maybe the people of South Cove have been there and done that so frequently in the previous fifteen books, that when a person goes missing, it’s just another Tuesday.
Overall, the book reads superficially with too much chatter about finding a new wedding venue, Jill needing to finish her final paper, and the burning need to take Emma for a beach run. If this is a mystery, shouldn’t the mystery be front and center? The missing woman is lost in all the surrounding chatter.
The book does drag with the amount of repetition and poor editing. The reason behind the missing woman is all sorts of ridiculous. Then add in Aunt Jackie suddenly putting in her notice that she is retiring but wants compensation for all that she has done for the business, and Jill wanting to overcompensate her, was unnecessary icing on a lopsided cake.
Blurb: In the coastal town of South Cove, June is tourist season—and wedding season. Unfortunately, Jill Gardner’s own wedding has been delayed. But that just gives her more time to search for a missing bride—and a killer. (GoodReads)
My Opinion: It seems like more of an outline with inconsistent parts. I found myself thinking -- that is not what you said a couple of pages ago. Maybe Lynn Cahoon has too many books in progress and cannot remember her previous paragraphs or where she wanted a book to go.
With a local woman missing, you would have thought that more people in this close-knit small town would be upset or out looking for her -- but then again -- maybe the people of South Cove have been there and done that so frequently in the previous fifteen books, that when a person goes missing, it’s just another Tuesday.
Overall, the book reads superficially with too much chatter about finding a new wedding venue, Jill needing to finish her final paper, and the burning need to take Emma for a beach run. If this is a mystery, shouldn’t the mystery be front and center? The missing woman is lost in all the surrounding chatter.
The book does drag with the amount of repetition and poor editing. The reason behind the missing woman is all sorts of ridiculous. Then add in Aunt Jackie suddenly putting in her notice that she is retiring but wants compensation for all that she has done for the business, and Jill wanting to overcompensate her, was unnecessary icing on a lopsided cake.
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