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

2.0

So this book ranged from okay to terrible. As far as characters go it had an interesting set with variance and Katherine for all her anachronism was interesting, at first. The book is anachronistic and upfront about it. So I was ready for that and accepted my lot and would be happy if the mystery was good.

The thing is though, Katherine is a terrible investigator. Like she is absolutely terrible.

She makes early assumptions with little evidence, gets caught constantly snooping. The worst part is though she ignores potential avenues of investigation as well as suspects for little to no reason. If someone talks about a past event of one of the victims you'd ask what happened, who was there and how everyone behaved. She asks only what is relevant to her assumptions. She is supposedly not new at this and learned from her dad. I'd say either her dad is also terrible or she learned nothing.

Also the killer is fairly obvious from mid-point and she ignores the clues, that informed be fairly easily who the killer was, for no reason. She has the same clues after all and she is supposed to be the investigator. Yet she misses everything relevant. This is frustrating at best.

While I don't need my detective character to be perfect or right all the time I'd like them to be good at their work and thus worth reading about. Katherine is not worth reading about.