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This was a solid meh for me.
I picked it up because I recently finished Smile Beach Murder, which I enjoyed, and this is a follow up to that.
Small town beach bookseller somehow finds herself a part time detective.
They are both a little corny, but at least in the first book, there was a connection between the characters that helped that storyline make sense.
In this one there are new, outside characters and the idea just doesn’t work anymore.
This one also wraps up the “twist” and the ending very quickly and it is really just completely unrealistic. There were lots of ways to close it out logically and this was just a stretch.
I would still recommend Smile Beach Murder, but not this one.

Hello all, I’m new here. This is a perfect book to start with since I’m such a big fan of the series.

This was another awesome addition to the series. Handful of new characters, closure on a couple others, and some of sub plots were deepen and made thoroughly more complex. Of all the hilarity these books provide, I’m always impressed how intricate some of these storylines are, but maybe I’m too easily impressed. Or too easily distracted by the funny.