About the Book
Lily Barlow, a quirky
college student obsessed with the fictional bounty hunter Stephanie Plum, is
called home from the University of Virginia to get the family bakery running
after her dad’s heart attack. Stuck in a sinkhole of self-pity, she finds her sleepy
hometown…well…can a town actually be in a coma?
No worries. All she needs to do is hire a bakery manager, and
she’s not even moving back in with her family for that part. Instead, she rents
an efficiency garage from Miss Delphine Walker, an old woman who Lily begins to
believe may have killed someone at some point in time.
Meanwhile, Lily’s overactive imagination takes a swan dive
when she discovers an online clearinghouse for victims the cops can’t identify.
Consumed with the profiles on the website, Miss Delphine, and the candidates
for the bakery manager position, she simply cannot cope with one more problem.
So when Jack Turner, her best friend since kindergarten, reveals out of nowhere
that he wants something more than friendship, what’s a woman to do?
My Review
A little bit of mystery, a little bit of romance. I was looking forward to reading Carla Vergot for the first time, and I did enjoy her writing style and the overall storyline. Lily is a likeable character to follow, and her family situation with the bakery and also her love life complications were enjoyable to read about. I was intrigued by the mystery aspect of this book, with the Jane Doe network and all that, and I actually wish that had been expanded on even more. The plot point with Miss Delphine didn’t really seem necessary to the overall story, and sometimes the relationship bits dragged on, which made the book seem long to get through for me. But overall I found it to be a cute and interesting story and I did want to see how the ending would play out.
4 stars
