D. C. Brod

So disappointed in this book, it started off with a bang and I loved it. Robyn tells the story in first person and has witty and funny thoughts. I thought it was going to be a winner.

She loves her mother so much but could not afford keeping her in the beautiful nursing home where she was.

At the beginning she used her mother's savings to pay for her mother's care but that was gone at the beginning of the book. She had to figure out some way of supporting her mother's care. Robyn was a show more freelance writer and ghost wrote one book. But her income did not come close to paying for the wonderful nursing home.

Since her mother's savings was gone, Medicaid would pay for her care but not at the nursing home that Robyn wanted. Robyn did check for another home and found one but it really didn't give its patients the proper attention or care.

So Robyn tried to hatch a plan for stealing the money. I still loved the character but I wanted to shout at her that this is not the way. It is immoral, and she would probably land in jail and her mother would end up at the not so good nursing home.

So, here I love the main character and her mother so much but not wanting the character to go any farther with her plans. Don't think I have ever read a book that put me in that predicament before. The writing is great and I would love to read more and would give her more stars if she had better behaving main characters. The mystery was a little convoluted but satisfactory. I did love Sassy, the goat and Bix her terrier without qualification.

So, this is a very strange sort of cozy, there is some mystery and I kept wanting to read it but I was so doggone frustrated with the main character. show less

This book had so much potential! I mean kidnapping a goat! With an ex jockey/accountant! But this book read like a romance novel. A crime novel is not supposed to read like a crime novel. That's rule number one. The book was really strange in a boring sort of way. And it just wouldn't end!!

I really liked this cozy mystery. It was different from other cozies I have read before. This one starred a male lead and I'm used to the female perspective in a cozy. The mystery was interesting and I liked the way the lead character, Quint handled situations. He was an unambitious man who had a laidback view of the world. I enjoyed seeing him forced into action. I would have liked a little more resolution to the end of the story simply because I want to know where Quint's life will take show more him next. I guess I'll have to get the next book in the series to find out. show less

The pace had me and I liked the conflict setup. The payoff was too clean for me.