After what seemed a slow start to me, once some invisibly switch in my brain clicked on, this one really kept me guessing until the end. The view point switched periodically, even sharing thoughts of the victim and his pondering over how to share his big news, all while, of course, not revealing what the big news was. There were countless red herrings and suspects, all with possible reasons to kill the victim. I was new to the series and thus fuzzy on some of the background and relationships but it really didn't matter. This one worked nicely as a stand-alone.
I swung rather wildly between possible suspects, often within a few pages, and even fingered the right party at one point before abandoning that thought, so this one will definitely keep you guessing. Who killed King Kohl? Who came up with that name anyway? Was King's tallness really important? What was wrong with his mother? Could a parent kill their own child? Could a person kill someone they claimed to love and might marry? How tormenting must it have been for the priest to know the "big news" that might be relevant to the solving of the crime but be unable to share due to his position? Did the big news even matter? If so, to who? Why? And, what the heck makes Wendy, who seems tough as nails, faint?
If you're like me, you'll waver from one suspect to the other as the plot moves along but never have a real clue to the "Why?" of the murder. The clues are all there, however, and I thoroughly enjoyed the back-and-forth musings on the case between Wendy and Ross, not to mention Bax. Thus, despite the it taking a bit for me to get into the book, I thoroughly enjoyed it and, hey, you don't even have to play bridge to enjoy it.
Thanks to #NetGalley and #KensingtonBooks for the ARC.
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