I'm always in the mood for a new Cozy Mystery series, and I picked up books 1 and 2 of this one on PaperbackSwap so I thought I would give them a chance.

The author is a long-time soap actress and so she would know about the soap world, although I don't think I have ever seen any of this occuring before, but it's a cozy mystery.

The lead character, Alex looks like the author in my mind, and she is engaging enough, you feel for her and you like her, but she's just kinda there. I don't know, there is just something about her that pushes me back a bit, and maybe that is on purpose since her ex-husband embazzled money from her and others and so she is always holding others at arms links.

The detective counter-part in this if Frank Jakes, of just Jakes, and he comes across as a bit of a ladies man.

I liked it well enough to read the second book in the series, and maybe I will know more then, but over-all it was a good read, just not my favorite, but good enough to try another and to recommend to friends.

This was cute. Light and easy, like eating candy. I don't read books like this often, but it was fun.

I really enjoyed this book. Alex was a fun and refreshing character.

Not really enough mystery, not really enough daytime drama. It has its moments but it’s also very transphobic right at the end.

Good read but I guessed who the killer was a third of the way through.

Started out funny, but got boring in a hurry. The main character got on my nerves. A lot. The mystery moved really slow. It was funny in parts, but overall just not very well written