Will Aileen be able to find out who the murderer is? Can she do it before the inn is ruined?
Aileen Mackinnon
Aileen Mackinnon is our sleuth who gave up her life in the city to move to the small town of Loch Fuar to help her grandmother run her inn. See, her grandma, Siobhan, is too old to run the inn on her own and has been put into a nursing home. Aileen is an introvert that has always played it safe until she made a move to the inn. There is a lot to unravel within this mystery about Aileen and the people around her.
Aileen, as a person, is hard to explain. She wants to be this adventurous type, but in reality, she isn't. Then when she is busy doing what a forensic accountant does, she is a totally different person. Despite the reader seeing both of these sides of Aileen, I feel like there is more to her than she just that. Along with just being an introvert who's OCD about her belongings. She seems like an interesting character.
The Mystery
This book has at least four mysteries to solve. The first one is with what happened in the prologue that I'm still confused about it. The second and third are about the first and second murders. The last one is about who will steal a fake diamond engagement ring? The prologue is confusing because you had no clue when it happened or how it is relevant to the story. Having that on the mind while trying to solve the mysteries is hard as it's not adding up. Plus, now her grandmother's engagement ring from her only husband is missing. Let's say that this story has one too many mysteries to solve.
Plus, we have ten guests claiming to be asleep and not liking what was going on at the inn. I felt like I was in a game of Clue with no real suspect coming out of the woodwork. Well, if Clue was set in Scotland in an inn. For a group of people who say that they are from different parts of the world while also not knowing each other, it sure is a coincidence for them to meet up at the inn and start to be buddy-buddy with each other.
3 Stars
When Murder Comes Home by Shana Frost is getting a three-star rating. I knew going in that this isn't going to be a cozy mystery, and as a debut novel, it is a good one; just sadly, there were a lot of mysteries, and at some parts, I got lost. Ms. Frost has potential since she did get me on who did it.
Other Books in the Series
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Happy Reading!
Victim/Toe Tag #1: Dave Smith (D)
Beachcomber Weapons: knife
Beachcomber Crime Scene: bedroom
Detectives: Aileen Mackinnon (A)
Victim/Toe Tag #2: Susan Knight (K)
Beachcomber Weapons: belt
Beachcomber Crime Scene: bedroom
Detectives: Aileen Mackinnon (A)
This review was originally posted on Baroness' Book Trove