Title: Ho-hum.
Product review: This book had been buried in my to-be-read pile. Sometimes, when I dig out a book that's been in there for a long time, I kick myself for not reading it sooner. That's not the case with this one.Crossword puzzle writer Belle and P.I. Rosco are on the trail of whoever killed two homeless people and a missing puppy. Then Rosco disappears, and Belle starts receiving cryptic crossword puzzles that she has to solve to find him.The good:The puzzles are clever and fun to solve.The premise is cute.The bad:Stilted dialogue--heck, all the writing is stilted.The characters act weirdly--without motivation to do so.Gratuitous use of italics.The cryptic crossword puzzles were just tedious.While I understand that people will kill over just about anything, the motive was hard to believe.And a bunch of nits too minor to mention.The verdict:My impression is that this was about the 6 crossword puzzles contained in the book. The story, such as it was, was just filler.
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