The Archie Sheridan and Gretchen Lowell Series

This book had two sort-of mysteries going on at once. One was kind of interesting, one was not. Sadly, the latter took up most of the pages, along with overlong descriptions of the weather, the furniture layout of every room, people's hair, what people were eating, how they were eating it, etc. But on the flip side, the author added very few descriptions of characters' personalities, thoughts and pasts, giving so little insight and character building that by the end I did not care a lick for any of them and wouldn't have minded a bit if any or even all of them got shot in the big cliched hostage shoot-out finale.