My rating: 3 of 5 stars
The characters in this book are, for the most part, very well defined, but that doesn't help the plot much. I found it hard to follow why a person would go to so much trouble to entice the police into an investigation of a crime by planting wishy-washy clues. Clues so without foundation that the idea of figuring them out could not stretch my suspension of disbelief even an inch.
Too many circumstances were contrived, too much jumping to conclusions that didn't make sense considering the lack of evidence to support them. The author knew what she wanted, but couldn't quite get it on paper without giving away the fact that her story lacked credence.
I would have given this story two stars except the redeeming quality of the writing, despite the poorly contrived plot, shows great promise for this author. It gets three stars for effort and I will read this author's work again, hoping for better cohesiveness in plot formulation.
