Gone Missin'

Travel agent Campbell Hale’s friend Bitsy goes missing and Campbell is determined to find her. The second in a series, this can also be read as a stand alone as I have done. Though, I seem to have found a new favorite author and need to go back and read the first book.
The characters are well developed, the dialogue snappy, and overall the writing is descriptive and eloquent. Thank you to NetGalley, the publisher, and the author for a copy of this digital ARC. All opinions are my own. This review can also be found on my Goodreads page.

What an excellent start to a cozy series! Lots of twists and turns that make for an interesting read. Love the well developed characters! I want more! Thanks #netgalley and #CanongateBooks and #SevernHouse for the eARC in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are mine.

Nosy, warm-hearted travel agent Campbell Hale gets mixed up in a missing persons case when beloved Nashville socialite Bitsy Carter vanishes during her Mexican vacation.
This is a fun mystery with a travel agent/detective with a fast car and always in trouble. Overall a good mystery with well developed characters.
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“Sheesh. Campbell. We’ve got a police force in this town. They’re pretty good. It’s not your job. Tell your detective friend. Let him do the work. It’s what we pay him for.”

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Campbell, travel agent, isn’t surprised when close friend Bitsy Carter disappears to Mexico for a spa vacay through her agency. But, when she’s declared missing a couple of weeks later, gaps start to form. What could make a devoted and loving mother leave her children behind?

This was a nice cozy mystery, and I loved the story, but personally it moved too slowly for me. At the start the story is very slow moving, and there’s a bit too much romance thrown in for my liking in a ‘mystery’, but then at the end it seems to all quickly end in the last couple of chapters, like it was rushed.

I also don’t understand why a travel agent takes a police case that comes across as dangerous into her own hands. To me, that doesn’t make sense. The characters and the storyline, other than the amateur detective travel agent, seemed well thought out.

The chapters were small bite sized chunks, so at any point there was a nice stopping point, helpful if like me you have a toddler who likes interrupting your reading, and I loved the fact that this can be read as a stand-alone, even though it’s supposed to be part of a series.

I recommend if you’re looking for something lightweight, but not a heavy thriller mystery type.

Thank you to Canongate Books, Severn House, Peggy O’Neal Peden and NetGalley for providing me with a copy!