Festive in Death product reviews

I have been a fan of the "In Death" series for a few years now and so it is habit now for me to run onto the library website and pop through a request to hire out the next in the series, with "Festive in Death" I had to wait for a measly 169 people to read it before me. :P

We start off with the murder being discovered, the ensuing detective work attempting to find out who killed said victim despite them being a complete and utter scumbag and of course, more character and friendship building between the main characters. It irked me at first, to see one of the secondary characters being so closely involved at the start, but I was happy to see that that isn't a big part of the book. Phew. The murder itself is pretty basic, but sometimes simple is good and it left more room to focus on all the suspects.

There is a lot of nice touches throughout the book, from Morris starting to regain color in his clothes (a sign that he is healing emotionally), to Eve and Roarke and the life they have carved out for each other, their celebrations and just how much they know and love each other. The last few books have been a bit uniform in that the plot wasn't wonderful and you knew who the killer was, so I was happily surprised to find that I wasn't right about the killer (though neither was the main characters) so that was a plus for this book.

Enjoyed this a little more than the last couple and I've already gone and requested the second (149 out of 149 :P )