I do like Kate. She is curious, nosy and just never gives up. She makes a fabulous main character. She seems to be in the right time and place to find leads for her newspaper articles. Now a dead body has been unearthed. It's an old body from many years ago but who could it be? Kate is busy searching for answers. Unfortunately her boyfriend is the detective also looking for the who and why. The story is interesting and I like the side characters that enter the story. But how does a relationship grow when you can't talk about the main focus of each day? I enjoyed the book.

When an unidentified skeleton is found at the vacant lot by the lake in Branson, Kate is already on an assignment—interviewing the founder of the local arts and crafts fair, Etta Stupholds. The more she learns about Etta, though, the more clues she finds leading her back to the case.

As if that doesn’t annoy her enough, the Branson police department, including her on again/off again boyfriend, Detective Tom Collingwood, blocks each of her attempts to get more information about the investigation.

There’s more to small-town Branson than it seems, and it’s up to Kate to make the connections.

In this second installment of the Kate Starling Mysteries, investigative reporter, Kate Starling inserts herself in the middle of another local murder case, only this time it’s more than personal. Looking forward to the next book in the series