Nashville Noir

interesting story

An interesting enough murder mystery which reads a lot like watching an episode of Murder, She Wrote. Dialog-driven, lots of matter-of-fact observations, etc. But no interesting, clever, original bits of writing. No insights into Jessica Fletcher via inner monologue or how she came to this point in her life, making for flat characters the reader never really gets to know well, or what their motivations are. Three stars for being entertaining if nothing else.

The set up is a little bit of a stretch, but I like the setting of Nashville and the characters we meet with Mrs. Granger and Mr. Washburn. I like that there wasn't a specific list of suspects. A couple appeared to be the leaders, but I wasn't sure who it was until the end because the answer wasn't totally straight forward. Not my favorite, but not the worst.