A review by nik_reads02
An Invitation to Murder by Harmony Williams, Leighann Dobbs

2.0

2.5 stars

Lady Katherine dreams of being a detective and living her best life unfettered by societal expectations. Her father promises to release her dowry if she can solve a murder (which seems...dangerous?) and she settles on the Pink Ribbon Killer. Wrangling an invitation to a house party based on her matchmaking skills she proceeds to try and solve the case -and marry off her charge- with the help of/despite a cast of characters. And a small dog of course.

Katherine is a perfectly serviceable main character, she is not offensive or awful. She has several friends that pop up during the book who are interesting in their own right, and a nemesis who it seems is clearly being set up as a romantic interest. What she isn't is a competent investigator. In fact I would say that she is a stone cold idiot. She blunders her way around the case, missing incredibly obvious clues and

Spoiler

doesn't solve it so much as almost gets murdered herself

.

I'm going to give the next one a go to see if she gets better.