The Moonlit Garden

The concept for this book was interesting: a woman is mysteriously given a violin and works to find out the history of the instrument and its owners. But the writing was so unrealistic to me. Characters overexplained jokes to each other, and the main character agonizes about going on a “date” with the man she's interested in, despite the fact that they spend significant time with each other throughout the book. I think this would qualify as a “beach read.”