In this follow up book, Allie Cobb has moved for real from NYC to southern Indiana. She is hard at work getting her literary agency up and running. She is settling into life in her childhood town. She is even head of the planning committee for the new park in town named after her late father. While checking on the work at the park one morning, she finds a dead body. This turns out to be someone that she had a history with from high school. This of course creates a compromising situation for Allie that she then has to do some investigating in order to clear her name. Allie upsets some people around town with her questions, but eventually she does find the right answer and solve the crime. Overall I enjoyed the book, it flowed well, was well edited without errors. I generally prefer to read books written in first person. There is a large variety of characters in the book to give it a well rounded vibe. However, by the end of the book, I didn't exactly like the main character. It wasn't somethng definite that I can pinpoint, just how some opinions were expressed. I didn't quite connect with Allie.

A charming cozy mystery filled with the joys (and pitfalls) of small town life, a warm, loving family, good friends and good books. Allie Cobb has returned to her hometown of Rushing Creek, Indiana and continued the literary agency started by her late father. She is out for a walk with her cat Ursula, checking the progress of construction at the new town park named after her father when her cat unearths a skeleton. The corpse turns out to be that of Georgie Alonso, a town resident with whom Allie has had a bad relationship in the past. And since Allie was the one to discover the body, she becomes the main suspect and embarks upon her own investigation to make sure she is not the one charged with the crime. This is a great addition to any cozy mystery library and I look forward to see what Allie does next.

What a busy bee, Allie the main character is. Such a strong, quirky individual to lead this mystery. Small town setting including politics, good believable plot, and characters, but I would have like a stronger wrap of of 'why" for the ending of the mystery.