I listened to this mystery and I enjoyed it a lot. It is what I call a gentle murder mystery. There is little violence - there are murders but we don't get a blow-by-blow of the gruesome details. Our 'heroine' of the story is Annie Darling who owns a bookstore named Death on Demand. Like earlier characters such as Agatha Christie's Miss Marple and Diane Mott Davidson's Goldie, Annie is a nice ordinary person - but people are always being murdered around her! She ends up helping to solve the crime. Not by means of forensic science but by just being an observant person who knows human nature. In this book Annie has hired Pat Merridew who, until recently, had worked at a law firm. She was basically fired and was desperate for the job - even though she doesn't seem to know much about murder mysteries. She didn't have much time to learn about them either because she is soon dead. The police want to attribute it to a suicide - but Annie thinks that doesn't make any sense. A light, entertaining book.
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