A Navy brat, a Stanford graduate is traveling from LA to a small town in Michigan to view an inheritance by a great aunt whom she has never met. The inheritance includes a large house and a bakery.
I found the initial descriptions to be of interest.
We first meet the narrator describing how she is shivering climbing flights of stairs toward the small plane: "I wrapped my pashmina more closely and moved as fast as I could in my new Louboutin heels." Once in the cabin she is looking for the leather seats in First Class and is told by the flight attendant: "There are only twenty-eight seats total, the flight time is thirty minutes, I'm sure you'll be able to endure it that short time frame."
Images of the ladies from Sex and the City? Not necessarily. When she arrives at the office of the attorney, she is presented with a "plastic rectangle which was slid into what looked like a mail slot."
The face of an older Black woman popped into the screen. And the narrator adds: The woman, aunt Octavia, has a skin the same color as mine.
And this is how we find that he is an African American. I read many mystery books and I don't remember any of the characters being described as an African American. There are many about Asian Americans but this was interesting. This is an e-book so no photo of the author but she is quite prolific and, yes, an African American.
The narrator later meets neighbor and friends and employees and one of them "had what my dad referred to as home training, referring to her aunt as Miss Octavia, knowing that older Black women were insulted when they were called by their first names, just as insulting as Black men being called "boy."
There is also a great English Mastiff named Baby, fiercely loyal and adorable.
As the narrator visits the area she constantly takes photos and post them with #hashtags. I have no idea what this means, similar to Facebook? Twitter? but they immediately generating many followers.
So far interesting, Yes, there is a murder but also questions and realization that this idyllic tourist city is hiding many secrets that we are bound to discover.
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