I wanted to like this but found it decidedly ordinary. I was in a mood for a short, cozy mystery and this had all the right ingredients but it just didn’t cook up any excitement. The seaside setting should have been just my thing but it didn’t come alive; the characters had potential but they didn’t fulfil it. Perhaps it was just one of those series where starting with the first book is a bad idea. Sometimes you are better off starting a few books in when the author and the characters have hit their stride. I’m not sure that I’ll try another of these again though.