80% of this book is about an older woman dealing with the ramifications of becoming a widow. It opens with a murder, but very little attention is paid to this until near the end of the book. I might go ahead and read the second one in the series just to see if the all the effort put into establishing the characters in this book results in a true mystery story. ( )

Nice and easy, I'll read more ( )

first of a series. Good, funny, bumbling evildoers, very British. ( )

The most enjoyable part of this book was watching Ellie move from a person who had allowed her spouse to dictate her self image, to a person who was beginning to explore just who she really was. The mystery was nice as well. ( )