I knew that this is a Christian fiction cozy before I started to read it but what I wasn't prepared for was the abundance of preaching. I love Christian fiction that just tells a lesson but it is my own personal preference to not have it too preachy. The author quoted scripture often and had so many references to God that were supposed to put in a funny way as joke that it got on my nerves. I like religion and cozies separate.

I love Amish fiction and so far all that I have read tells a moral or religious lesson but they are not preachy.

Also not all of the readers are Christian,some may be Jewish, Buddist, Hindu and so on. The messages came on too strong for me.

Some of the scenes like having been stalked by a man in a gorilla can be funny but stalking just doesn't seem like funny material to me.

The main character and narrator of the story was Summer and I could identify with her some because she was always bumping into things because she wasn't looking but she seemed stupid too and that is not the best behavior for dectectives. I didn't like the way that she put her life in danger by asking certain questions of the suspects. When she did that I began to like her. Shouldn't a young woman have at least some horse sense?

The carny people seemed sterotyped as as dressing wildly and not bathing. Summer's boyfriend also seemed "too good" to be true.

Her writing did hook to the story from the beginning, I kept reading to the end but I felt uncomfortable about it.

I would recommend this cozy to anyone who doesn't mind preachiness as to everyone else there are plenty of other great cozies out there. ( )