I have liked her Blue Ridge librarian mystery series pretty well, so when I ran across this, I picked it up.

Maybe it's because I didn't realize until I was into it that I'd missed the first of the series. But, alas, I was not super impressed.

She does a good job of filling in the backstory necessities I presume were in Book 1, but I never really felt connected to the protagonist, Charlotte. I loved the setting -- was just at Emerald Isle and Beaufort in November. So that was very well done. But something just seemed .. missing somehow. I felt like I knew the details of the B&B's decor more than why I should care about the protagonist or the other characters, really.

However, it was a well-paced, satisfyingly twisty plot, with a few insights into darker side of the competitive world of fan fiction.