Loved It!

I really did love this book! It was honestly the perfect pick me up after what has been a really challenging year. I really enjoy village life dramas and murder mysteries and this was a really good combination of both. My husband and I enjoyed reading this out loud to one another. I will say though that there were times when the narrative got a bit distracted, I think there were just one to many things going on. Like perhaps the village play could have gotten less air time than it did for example, It didn't really add a tone to the story and just served as a distraction, same as the pig club. There were times where I felt the author was just tacking on too many things and the main plot lines were getting lost. I do wish also that there was more focus spent on solving the mystery of Miss Hustlbee's murder, it felt very back and forth on that. One minute Olive would be focused on that and the other times she would say she wasn't and would be on to other things.
Overall though, I thoroughly enjoyed it and would be interested in seeing more from Stephanie Graves in this style.