A review by lakecake
A Deadly Grind by Victoria Hamilton

3.0

This was an ok start to a series. A lot of the reviews on here had me believing this would be terrible, and it wasn't so, but there were some quirks to this that I didn't love. Yes, our heroine asks a lot of questions of herself, and yes, she also does some dumb stuff that makes her seem very naive and young--although, as she mentions at least three times she's 32 and not a child!--but it's not distracting, at least in my opinion. It caused me to shake my head a couple of times, but it truly wasn't the thing that made this kind of a "meh" book for me. The crime seems to be neatly wrapped up and then there's an additional, and I'd say unnecessary, twist that just confuses the issue and leads to a rather unsatisfying conclusion. Sister Becca is overbearing in the extreme, and thankfully she's not in this book too much but she gets very annoying very quickly, so hopefully that will regulate. Otherwise, I found the small town atmosphere and quirky cast of characters sort of endearing. I'll check out another in this series to see how the characterizations evolve.