Anna S. (annapi) reviewed on 8/16/2010 + 334 more book reviews

Mediocre. I picked this up at the library because I like pottery, and a cozy series with a pottery theme appealed to me. Unfortunately, the writing was sadly wanting. It started out ok, with pottery shop owner Carolyn Emerson finding the dead body of one of the town's most unlikeable residents in her establishment. The police of course suspect her, and the townspeople start avoiding her shop. Because of a previous run-in with him, she does not get along with the sheriff. Fearful he will try to pin the murder on her instead of working to solve the case, she decides to investigate the crime herself. Now that started out fairly plausibly, but as we get deeper into the book, the events become less and less believable. Most of the characters were likeable enough, with believable flaws, but I just couldn't connect with any of them. I might have been able to forgive that, and even the scenes that seemed to have no purpose except to add words to the manuscript, but the final denouement was disappointingly flat.

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