Saturday, February 5, 2022

Mystery buried

Pruning the Dead (A Garden Squad Mystery)
by Julia Henry

Gosh, what to say? It had a lot of interesting people in it and it had a good, quirky mystery. Of course I guessed the culprit early on, but it was still good watching the evidence pull together.

But as a reader, I didn't engage. It was food for the mind but not the heart, and I never really cared much about any of the characters. Possibly that was a first-in-the-series issue...maybe the author was trying so hard to keep the story light and of general appeal that she was afraid of rubbing into any real emotion.

I see that other fans of the series really like it, though. I'm thinking I'll try book 2.

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