While this was an enjoyable read, and I'll be going through all the Aurora Teagarden mysteries, it was clearly a debut novel. The dialogue was clunky, the prose needed tightening, and I kept wondering if Roe was supposed to be a mind reader. She kept glancing at people, then jumping to these absurd conclusions that usually turned out to be true.

Despite its faults, though, it was a compelling mystery, and it kept me listening. So I can't complain too much. It was just a little jarring, after reading only Harris's later books, to see how much she'd grown as a writer.