It's been over a year & a half since I read the first book in this series, so I had to reacquaint myself with the characters and it took a few chapters. I still think it's strange to have a cosy mystery series without animal sidekicks and honestly this is also a little heavier then most cosy series. They deal with a lot of trauma in the backgrounds of the main characters, which could probably be slightly therapeutic for some readers.

This installments had THREE murders and ended up having an unsuspecting murderer. There also seem to be several romances that are starting up, so it will be interesting to see where these go.