I "met" Wendy during a book launch class we were both taking online, and won this book through her promotion on Goodreads. Glad I did. This is a fun series with just the right balance of humor and tension.
The small river town of Banford, in Canada, is gearing up for the yearly fishing tournament. Cassie Bridgestone, our heroine (and I hope the heroine for the whole series?) is a landlord and runs an antiques store she took over from her grandmother, who raised her. She has some wounds from a near-miss at the altar, so that makes her leery of men who show interest. Which makes things uncomfortable for her when her new tenant isn't the old man she anticipated, but handsome and young and giving off signs that he's interested in her.
But while Daniel appears to be lying to her on a number of details, he isn't the main mystery and challenge for Cassie. Not yet anyway. The town curmudgeon is found dead, drowned in the river. The local part-time cop (who does come across as an arrogant jerk more than a few times) determines it's murder, and decides that the guy who found the dead man is the murderer. Cassie decides Officer The-case-is-solved-gimme-my-donut isn't interested in finding out the truth, so she sets out to do so. And trips over people. And gets people angry with her. And chooses the wrong guilty party several times. And gets frustrated with herself.
And learns a few things about herself, about her relationship with God, and finds a little bit of healing from her past, along the way. Enjoyable adventure, and very believable worldbuilding. I WANT to visit the town of Banford again.
So ... more please!
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