If you're looking for a travelogue with beautiful, detailed descriptions of England's countryside, and every bite of food the main character, Olivia Shaw, eats then this book is for you. If you're looking for a mystery, pass this one by. O'Neal claims this is a mystery but it takes forever to find out why Olivia's mother left England and her estate and didn't tell anyone. There are not a whole lot of clues to the mystery as we wait and wait and wait to find out what happened. Then what little answer we get is not that satisfying and there are A LOT of answered questions: who was Olivia's father and where was he when her mother needed him? Why wasn't he involved in his daughter's life? Why was there no response at all when Olivia finds out her neighbor Rebecca and her boyfriend's boss have been embezzling money from her estate? Why does she not inform her boyfriend, Samir, that his boss was arrested for embezzling and he's out of a job now? What happens with the huge restoration project of the mansion on the estate with The Restoration Diva? And what happens to Olivia's job in San Francisco?

The huge problem with this book is that O'Neal gets lost in all of her descriptions and forgets about the plot of the book: the mystery. And it's a mystery we never get a satisfying answer to. In the end, we never really find out what happened between Olivia's mother and her uncle. O'Neal would've done better to have two different timelines in the book, so even if Olivia didn't get the full answer (and she doesn't), we the readers would.

If you're looking for a light summer read in the style of Under the Tuscan Sun set in the English countryside, then this is your book. If you're looking for a mystery set in the English countryside, pass this one by and head for Agatha Christie or Ellis Peters.