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Title: This is a mystery??
Review: I really, really did not like this book. Yes, it's very light-hearted and skips along at a fair pace, but the mystery itself takes up only about half the book! The other half is some nonsensical tripe about several of the local ladies being kidnapped by a couple of rouges WHO HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE MYSTERY AT HAND. What?!? Why am I reading about them?? What on God's green earth does this have to do with the main story? The mystery itself is interesting enough conceptually, but it's ignored for so much of the book that it remains completely underdeveloped. The denouement itself takes about two pages; that's how simple it was, almost as though it were an afterthought.
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