I have to admit I'm pretty disappointed with this installment. While the book is basically the exact same length as the first one it felt tremendously longer because the pacing was so much slower, and the content wasn't enticing.

The story focused just a bit to much on Vera and Orville's strained relationship for my own liking. I'm not reading these mystery books to follow along with relationship problems if I wanted that I would have picked up a romance book, I'm reading these for the murder mystery. I really felt like the investigation into the mystery bones fell to the way side. The connection of how the bones got to Cold Clay Orchard felt forced and very last minute, almost as if they [authors] had forgot the bones had been found there. After a while it was pretty obvious who the perpetrator was, and once it was reveled it all felt very convenient and in my opinion brought the whole mystery down so many levels of interest. There didn't seem to be a real sense of urgency on the investigation, like the first book had.