Tilley Edgley finds her dream job working in a bookstore. Till the day she walks in to the store to find the owner hanging her dream turns into a nightmare.Then a second murder in the small town.A police procedural that kept me involved kept me turning the pages.A. Very well written thriller.#netgalley # bloodhoundbooks.

Thank you NetGalley and Bloodhound Books for this arc.

This one looked to be right up my alley. Maybe it's me... but it just didn't work. For a short book these days (less than 250 pages), it took me forever to get through it. Like eight never unending hours... Could be I had been out way past my bedtime the previous night (another interminable holiday party in yet another unheated venue.... always a challenge to coordinate a party dress with long underwear). I just didn't hold my attention. I just couldn't like or engage with any of the characters nor did I find the story compelling enough to stay awake.

Maybe under different circumstances, this would have been a more enjoyable read for me... but given the overall limpness of the characters in this book, I doubt it.

ARC received via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This was a cozy mystery.

In a quaint little bookshop where Tilly Edgely lands a position she thinks she’s found her perfect job.

Then one winter morning she find her boss hanging by a rope around his neck.

When inspectors Barrett and Palmer starts to investigate they find clues leading to the killer but when a second murder happen it throws the case wide open.

This was a good police procedural.

Trish Fields loves everything about books, the way they feel, the way they smell and of course, the wonders they hold between their pages. So her job at Ashton’s bookshop in Cambridge is a perfect fit, that is until she finds her boss, apparently murdered in the shop. Police inspectors Barrett and Palmer are in charge of the investigation, and they find few clues to the killer’s identity. A second murder may shed light on the killer’s motive, but will the police be able to solve the puzzle in time to prevent another murder? A solid British police procedural that ticks all the right boxes

I received an advance readers copy in exchange for an honest review.

So this author is doing police procedurals now, instead of her weird, twisted thrillers . This one is perfectly good, but I miss the weirdness of some of her earlier work. Solid police mystery – nothing really out of the ordinary – fine if that's your thing but nothing to necessarily recommend it