Odessa is a recent Brooklyn transplant, still dealing with the culture shock of moving to a bustling urban environment from her sleepy Louisiana hometown, when a fellow waitress at the cafe/bookstore where she works dies in a VERY public manner. While Odessa's friends and the police are convinced her friend's death was an accident, that doesn't feel right to true-crime-podcast-obsessed Odessa, and she begins to dig into her pal's life in the hopes of doing her justice.
The idea of a cozy mystery set in Brooklyn is fresh and appealing, and the dog-like cat Rufus and bookstore mutt Huckleberry are charming. But Odessa's penchant for over-explaining hipstery Williamsburg (I think we're all pretty familiar with the whole eat local thing and craft breweries by now) and using millennial slang, as well as the nearly constant reminder of her southern background, grated on me too much for me to really enjoy this one. (Also, the pinks/oranges/greens on the cover made my colorblind husband ill. Not super helpful design work.) Meh.
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