this was bad

this book was not what I expected and it had too much unnecessary background drama that took away from the murder. i expected a cozy mystery. A murder happens and the town's busy body or way too observant non-official person helps the cops solve it. That was not this book. This book has a murder, yes, but the FL isn't even smart enough to solve the murder.

What she is is way over the top dramatic. The whole scene when she finds the murdered victim...over dramatic, the scene when she questions the son of the murdered man, over dramatic, the talk with the mother of the bride, over dramatic and the scene when her grandfather....who she knows is dying, actually dies, WAY overly dramatic. It's one thing when people question other people's beliefs or their own beliefs when a person dies unexpectantly and way too early in life, it's another for her to get all righteous and indignant with her grandmother and question the grandmother's beliefs and acceptance of the death when her grandfather dies from a heart disease they knew he was dying from! The FL starts ranting "why would you believe in a god that would take him away from you?" He was an OLD man, who had a terminal heart disease, what?
is he suppose to heal miraculously after she visited? It was so nonsensical and had NOTHING to bring to the story.

The whole chocolatier debacle... SMH. That ruined the story from the start. You have an over the top pretentious secret boyfriend and you're shocked that he isn't faithful? You are keeping him a secret because he is part of a council that is voting on a head position you are in the running for and you don't want people to think it's favourtism, even though you yourself know the relationship is going nowhere and that he is borderline emotionally abusive? You have a VERY best friend (FL words), that you told NOTHING about you, but you still call them your very best friend and the person you tell everything to? So many things about the FL made her character very unlikeable.

All the parts in this book that I supposed the author thought would garner sympathy for the FL, rubbed me wrong and I found myself rolling my eyes instead.

The murder was funny! grandfather dying from heart disease and can barely stand up straight, has an argument with a non amish developer who is trying to buy his shop. Said developer ends up dead in the grandfather's shop, with no signs of forced entry, with the grandfather's special fudge knife as the murder weapon and the cops are, yup, the grandfather did it. If not you, then your non-amish grand-daughter. Geez. This author threw everything at this book to make it interesting, but this murder plot has been done in 90% of cozy mysteries and many have done it way better.

Can I ask why most of these books that seem Hallmark based all have successful people coming from Boston or New York? it's like no other parts of the country or world can harbour successful people...or that simple country folk have to go far away in order to be a success and only return home when they fail or there is an emergency. SMH

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