The idea behind this thriller was good. It's set in Maine, where interior designer Elizabeth Pennington returns to care for her grandmother and to take control of the family business. Her parents lost their loves when she was much younger and her grandmother is all that now remains in the form of family. Their business is in the hospitality sector. They run an inn, the same inn in which a disappearance which occurred many years before while it was a girls' school, still has not been solved. Murder on the Precipice now tells the tale of another disappearance, this time of a guest of the inn, in frighteningly similar circumstances to those which surrounded the disappearance of the girl many years before. Elizabeth faces a race against time and against adverse weather conditions to save them from the deadly killer. While the plot was good the telling could have been a lot tighter. I feel it could have been tightened up a lot and the characters would have benefitted from further depth. It had lots of potential though.

The books characters didn’t call to me. I kept expecting the best friend to be one of the bad guys. Story didn’t flow well.
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Overall I enjoyed this book. Parts of it felt a little pedestrian and some of the sentence structures seemed amateurish but the story was fast paced and interesting. No great surprises in store and indeed I worked out the plot very quickly but there was something appealing about the book which just kept me from putting it down.

2.5 stars rounded up to 3 star review. This book has a promising premise that sort of ends up sputtering due to the complete dullness of the characters. I did not like or dislike the main character-Elizabeth sometimes referred to as Liz and Lizzie. She was quirky but to me she just was not interesting and the rest of the cast just seemed superficial. I give higher marks for the writing as it was not bad and liked the descriptive language it just seemed this story line was not as tightly woven as some other mysteries I have recently read. This leaned more toward romance and that romance was really mediocre in my opinion. However, that may have a market I could recommend this book to. I think my expectations were too high on this one.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for a chance to read and review.

I was immediately attracted to the cover. We see Elizabeth in the middle of the night looking towards an illuminated tower.

The story tells us about the life of Elizabeth architect at Manathan. She grew up in an inn and returns there thanks to the invitation of her grandmother. Once she arrives at the top, she learns that a young woman has disappeared, she finds similarities to an investigation that occurred years earlier. She will seek answers to this disappearance and save the inn from her childhood. Except that the more she goes forward in her search, the more she will learn about her past, her family.

A moving and captivating story. I read this book in one go. Elizabeth's character is endearing. Look forward to reading another book by this author with potential.

Solid and athmospheric murder mystery. I liked it and will likely read the first novel by this author.

(I received an ARC via NetGalley.)