This is a fast-paced cozy mystery with a heroine who just doesn't know how to sleuth properly and yet never got charged with obstructing justice. Unlike typical cozy mysteries though, her friends actually realize just how dangerous and ridiculous her actions are and talk some sense into her. Probably since Lestrade, police in a lot of mysteries are portrayed as fools who can't do their jobs and need the PI or sleuths to take the investigations. I get that the police can't be too smart or the readers will be reading police procedural instead of cozy mysteries. Still, I dislike how the heroine jumps to the conclusion that the police are useless and she needs to step in or the real murderer will never be apprehended. For a woman with such confidence, she is surprisingly clumsy and messes up more than once. It is her arrogance that makes me dislike the heroine and deduct serious points from the book. I don't mind sleuths being nosy for curiosity can kill a cat, but I loathe pompous sleuths and I hope Viola Robert will mature in the future books or I am seriously going to drop this series.