This is a very light and silly book, which is sometimes exactly what one wants. The prose induces the occasional cringe, sometimes validly because the protagonist would have had just that cringe-inducing thought right there, and sometimes not. The book stands alone in terms of the crime solved, but fits into its series in terms of the (at least) two star-crossed love stories among the continuing characters.

I gave it three rather than four stars mostly due to one oddly jarring scene in which, in a book otherwise perfectly comfortable with two gay characters, a background "metrosexual" (or "fop") character is introduced just in order to be ridiculed (bet he does a full-body wax, narf narf), shown as a cad, and seen off by the main love-interest, and Our Heroine can remark how a proper man should be strong and have chest hair. I mean, what?

But anyway, with that strange exception, perfectly fine light airplane or general escapism reading.