A Dark and Stormy Murder

This is the pound of book that makes me want to write. There is some of the writing process and some of the book being written. That was fun. The house is amazing to imagine. So many good characters, Sam, Camilla, Allison, the general store owners, and more. There are a few mysteries that have to be resolved. Some get resolved and some make progress. This is an amazing start to a wonderful series. I am so glad I have discovered this one.

Two stars for “it was okay.”

It tried to be a gothic-flavored tale about a secluded writer with a mysterious neighbor. It actually was a predictable story with a friendly writer and a grieving neighbor...the mystery pops up at about 40% and the murderer is easily spotted (I kept thinking they must be a red herring because it was so easy).

I did enjoy the Indiana setting and the mentor/friend relationship between the two women. There were some major plot detail fails (for example, the author met and married her husband on her book tour for her first novel, but they only had one child two years after marriage, whose life and death was memorialized in her first novel....uh....) which made it hard to believe the backstories. I will consider trying another book from this series. Also I had no clue why a character suddenly went all Amazon on some policemen who were simply doing their job.

Content: a few profanities, a couple bad swears, murder