This was a light cozy mystery, clean reading that you can share with your mom or your daughter and not worry about any content.

Bella Winter lives in a charming small town where everyone knows everyone’s business sort of town. Her father, who has passed, was formerly a detective in Hope Eaton. As you would imagine, Bella has an innate level of curiosity as a detective’s daughter, so when a neighbor is found dead of natural causes she is suspicious.

At the start of the book you are introduced to several characters and townspeople, several that become Bella’s accomplices in her amateur sleuthing, while she tries to maintain her antique business that is also suffering from local gossiping.

The story is very much a string of Bella’s thoughts and conversations as she puzzles out the mysteries surrounding Hope Eaton. There’s a little lull about 2/3 the way through when it switches gears from all the puzzle pieces being laid out to Bella organizing them to the unfold, the last 1/3 unfolds quickly with it being a surprise to how it all is a tangled web leading back to one villain!