Jen is the most frustrating and immature character I’ve ever read. Her dialogue, general internal monologue and first person prose, made me perpetually aggravated by her behaviour. She’s a fuckin 29 year old child trying to investigate murder and basically gets herself almost murdered by the end because the big red flags waving over the last two characters somehow didn’t register with her as - oh maybe I should tell my boyfriend cop now that I know he’s investigating things properly. Why is she a writer? Why does she own a bookstore? Pretty clear her one drive in life is to be a homicide detective. 

Overall, the book annoyed me and all of that can be credited to Jen - a really immature, basket case of a character. 

Prose - I found simplistic but it’s a cozy mystery novel so it didn’t put me off. Some sentences did clang horribly though. And constant movement of characters. Sitting down. Standing up. Barely a moment or sentence separating those movements and actions. 

Plot - I think by halfway through you can guess how this plays out. 

Things I liked
- setting of the tunnels was good 
- writing her novel / planning it and using her twin characters for motivating / pushing herself was actually a cool aspect that I wished for explored more (little hard to imagine someone who’s mentally absorbed by a murder investigation would have the energy capacity to write a novel though)