This is what I want from a who Holiday-Who-Done-It: whimsical enough characters to keep me interested, love interests with enough banter (and tension) to keep me giggling, and blizzard to keep them all in place. 

Carter managed to write tropes like miscommunication,  “I’d take a bullet for you”, and the “We don’t talk about Tucson” without it being cringey, which is a big green flag. 

As a murder mystery, I was thoroughly entertained, but I also read this in a day a never once tried to put the clues together. I was along for the ride and enjoyed every second of it. Had I sat with it for any length of time, or if I was a regular with the genre, maybe it would’ve been obvious, but I don’t care. That’s not what I was looking for. I got my “Oh, damn!” moment during the reveal.