I read about 60% of this book by the Kindle meter; so, don't take the rating at all seriously. Something may have happened in the last 40 % of the book which made the whole thing come together to form an outstanding book. At any rate, I finally reached the point where delving into the social and psychological disabilities of the heroine made the book sufficiently unpalatable so that it was more appealing for me to terminate rather than continue the experience. You might well react differently.
The plot line is simple. Murder is committed in the heroines place of work. She finds the body. She determines to find the murderer despite his repeated efforts to frighten her off. The man she loves and lives with strongly advise her to stop her investigations. The police ask her to stop her investigations. As of the point where I stopped reading, she has reiterated her argument that only she can find the murderer despite another effort by the murderer to stop her. To this point we have mostly been exposed to this 30 something woman's struggles to master her own fears about opening herself up to love the man in her life and, even more difficult, to live with him. She finds it very difficult to trust him, to enter a relationship in which she must allow him to infringe upon her space, curb some of her own preferences for living, and accept his protective attitude toward her. She describes herself as touchy, suspicious, easily slighted, fearful of close relationships, terrified of and needful for intimate emotional and physical relationships, and more.
As I say,I grew tired of her problems as described by her, and her insistence on putting herself in danger of death without any apparent objective reason save her own belief that only she, and not the police, can find the murderer. From another angle, I also found that the author failed adequately to weave the  interesting setting in which the heroine and victim worked, a theatrical enterprise,into her narrative. Unless the author was misleading us, I also found the popularity of the heroine with her fellow employees inexplicable since dealing with her was made to seem akin to playing with an irritable porcupine.
As I have said, I did not finish the book so that the review must be taken with many grains of salt.
I read about 60% of this book by the Kindle meter; so, don't take the rating at all seriously. Something may have happened in the last 40 % of the book which made the whole thing come together to form an outstanding book. At any rate, I finally reached the point where delving into the social and psychological disabilities of the heroine made the book sufficiently unpalatable so that it was more appealing for me to terminate rather than continue the experience. You might well react differently. The plot line is simple. Murder is committed in the heroines place of work. She finds the body. She determines to find the murderer despite his repeated efforts to frighten her off. The man she loves and lives with strongly advise her to stop her investigations. The police ask her to stop her investigations. As of the point where I stopped reading, she has reiterated her argument that only she can find the murderer despite another effort by the murderer to stop her. To this point we have mostly been exposed to this 30 something woman's struggles to master her own fears about opening herself up to love the man in her life and, even more difficult, to live with him. She finds it very difficult to trust him, to enter a relationship in which she must allow him to infringe upon her space, curb some of her own preferences for living, and accept his protective attitude toward her. She describes herself as touchy, suspicious, easily slighted, fearful of close relationships, terrified of and needful for intimate emotional and physical relationships, and more. As I say,I grew tired of her problems as described by her, and her insistence on putting herself in danger of death without any apparent objective reason save her own belief that only she, and not the police, can find the murderer. From another angle, I also found that the author failed adequately to weave the  interesting setting in which the heroine and victim worked, a theatrical enterprise,into her narrative. Unless the author was misleading us, I also found the popularity of the heroine with her fellow employees inexplicable since dealing with her was made to seem akin to playing with an irritable porcupine. As I have said, I did not finish the book so that the review must be taken with many grains of salt.