Cute premise in theory, packed with things to like:

- fresh start
- small town (a nosy one at that)
- funny animal sidekicks
- dead body turns up early in

Still just, poor writing and an overall extremely slow pace made it pretty insufferable. The female lead states a billion times (in a small /short read) that "all lawyers" are scum/evil/bad, etc. just because she experienced one bad one. So the reader is supposed to believe that she's a full-grown adult, capable of basic things like feeding herself and living on her own, caring for pets, etc. but that she is so incredibly stupid she believes things like that. It ward hard to take it seriously. Between that and the slow pace just ... not for me.