The concept of someone trying to solve another person's problem while struggling to solve their own internal problem is something we have seen before, but here it is done so well that you forget that other books like this one exist.

An okay read that could have been great. Maybe it was just me but this book moves at a snails pace. It has the perfect set up, but just didn’t deliver.

Great little thriller - intriguing and keeps you wondering! Thanks to NetGalley for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Wow. For a woman on the run and trying to hide, she sure involves herself into a small town life. Gets a job, joins a soft ball team, volunteers at a nursing home... oh and investigates a murder. I enjoyed this book.

This book was a typical little thriller book. I read a book kinda like this one earlier except it was just better. I’m sorry but I couldn’t get into this story as much as I would have liked to be able to. I like the idea of the story though, just not the execution.

Kim Jackson has told herself to stay out of it, to stay away from the mystery and the drama. Kim once had a big career for a Fortune 500 company but she's recently been framed for corporate fraud and murder. So Kim does the only thing she knows to do and leaves town. She leaves for a small mountain town in Colorado just a teenager from the area goes missing. When the teenagers body is found, Kim is curious and throws herself into finding out who did this and to bring justice. Would describe this as a cozy murder mystery and not one that would give you chills.

Kim Jackson flees her high level accounting job in Chicago after being framed for a crime she didn’t commit. Changing her name and leaving everything behind. She comes across a small town in Colorado during a huge snowstorm. Upon arrival, Kim learns about a teen, Emily, who had disappeared. Kim decides to look into Emily’s disappearance, especially after Emily’s body is found.


I was so excited to read this book. Kim was fleeing her old life due to being framed for a crime and then in her new life decides to solve a murder? It sounded so good, but this was so disappointing. Nothing happened the first 60% of the book other than information gathering. I was so bored with this. Finally, when something did happen, the connections made no sense to me. It felt like the author was trying to wrap up the book quickly and just wanted to be done with it. I was expecting <I>A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder</I> vibes and that was not what happened at all. Not an enjoyable read if you want a civilian turned detective and a spooky mystery.

A mountain of evidence is a quick thriller read that follows a woman running away from her past. She takes residence in a small Colorado town, changing her name, and becoming a member of the community. When a local girl is killed, she becomes obsessed with finding out who the killer is.

Spoilers:
While I did enjoy this novel, I felt like there were major parts of the plot that were left undone. Unless there is a second novel, there was no real resolution to the murder that made Kim leave Chicago in the first place. If there is not a second novel, I would be disappointed to not learn of these plot issues.

Thanks NetGalley and Amy O. Lewis for an ARC to review.
It believe it is the first book of a series where we would follow later on Kim's story.
An executive flees her former life to a small town getting herself in the middle of a local girl's murder investigation.

A Mountain of Evidence was an ok read. It's about starting over, friendships, secrets and murder. I found the plot predictable. I did like the characters in this book.

Thank you NetGalley for allowing me to read this ARC in exchange for my honest review.
2/5 stars
I couldn’t get past the author’s blatant attitude of superiority for executive and white-collared jobs- it was mentioned outright multiple times and is just disgusting.
Don’t pay too much attention to the details of the book because if you do, the whole thing falls apart because it just doesn’t make sense. The MC somehow knows so many things when there is no way at all for her to know them.
Another thing that bothered me was the fact that after moving to a new location 3 weeks before, somehow our MC has a job, is on her second home rental, plays on a softball team, volunteers at a nursing home and has a great group of friends. Seriously?!? No. AND somehow there is so much snow when she arrives that the roads close for 3-4 days but then a few weeks later it’s so hot that the MC could see the heat radiating off the pavement. What?!? No.
I’ll conclude my review by saying it’s a cute little cozy mystery- just don’t look too closely at the details.

Compelling start to the story with Kim escaping the city and being accused of a crime she didn't commit. The mystery of the small town was interesting but Kim took an unnatural interest into the girl who died. The story was a little slow in the middle. Looking for resolution to the first part of her story.

Thank you to Netgalley and the pulbisher for allowing me to review this novel.

Kim Jackson finds herself in a small Colorado town after deciding to flee her upscale life in Chicago. Unmoored from all she knows, she gets sucked into the mystery of who killed 18 yr old Emily.

I didn't enjoy this book. There was no tension, no escalation to action. The plot was fairly pedantic and easy to figure out. The main character was naive, lackluster, and boring. For someone with an advanced degree, she wasn't very smart. Many times, her mistakes frustrated me to no end because her reactions and decisions were nonsensical. The characters weren't well fleshed out either, and it left the whole novel feeling static and somewhat boring.

Thanks to the publisher for providing an eARC of A Mountain of Evidence in exchange for an honest review.

This might be a case of right book, wrong reader. A Mountain of Evidence was shelved as YA when I decided to read it (I think it's since been switched to NA) so I went into this assuming we'd also be getting chapters from the missing girl's POV or from the perspective of some of the other teen characters to create a higher investment in the story but this is definitely just not YA. I like adult mysteries too, but this is very much a cozy mystery (with the stilted dialogue and slow pace that normally comes with cozy mysteries very, very present) so I didn't enjoy it.

Kim is a top executive who has to leave her life in the big city behind as she is being framed for fraud and murder by her boss. She flees the city and ends up in small town Colorado where she manages to build up a new life in just two weeks: new job, new house, volunteer work, a place in the local softball team, a few suitors and even friends. On top of that she starts to do her own investigation into the disappearance of a local young girl.

It all feels unrealistic to the point I would say the story is escapism or cozy mystery at least. The writing style was okay, but the main character Kim didn't connect with me. She made wrong decisions from start to finish and she is portrait as a perfect miss goody two shoes and gets away with it.

All in all, a good holiday read when you don't want something heavy or complicated.

2,5 stars

A sincere thanks to Netgalley, the author and the publisher for an advance copy in exchange for an honest review.

The premise of this was very interesting, although not unique it is something I’m a sucker for. The execution just wasn’t there however, which is very unfortunate. I don’t think the author was very good at writing dialogue and this book suffered from short stunted dialogue that felt very fake, and long walls of text where I found my mind wondering.

Overall in the end this was nothing special, and while I think it’s a good holiday read where you’ve run out of books and this is the only one left, it’s not one I would suggest to anyone unless you want to be bored.

ehhh this book is okay. i’m not really a fan of the author’s writing style and it was pretty slow paced in my opinion. i didn’t really connect with any of the characters and although the description sounded appealing, the plot was okay. the ending picked up and it was better than the start. overall it was pretty average and i would say 3 ⭐️

This was categorized as Young Adult on here, but I think this would thrive best for New Adult readers. As a mainly YA reader, I didn’t really enjoy this. The plot was too realistic and geared towards the adult readers, despite featuring a teen character.