This was interesting. I'm not sure I would call this book a full-fledged cozy. It was minus blood and gore but had more "saucy" language than the typical cozy. Stella Hardesty has a side business where she helps battered women take care of their brutal boyfriends/husbands. She, herself, had taken a wrench to the head of her husband several years ago. Stella's side business is hush-hush, whispered in back rooms of salons or behind closed doors. She wouldn't want her potential boyfriend, the town sheriff, to find out. The series is set in tornado-alley Kansas where Stella still has nightmares about her uncle's death. There's a lot of humor in "Pretty" and every time Stella spoke I was hearing The Closer's Lt. Brenda Lee Johnson's voice in my head. Stella is asked to clear a friend of murdering a woman and burying her in concrete, something the man doesn't remember since he was heavy into drugs the time the woman disappeared. As if she doesn't have enough to do, Stella also is confronted by her boyfriend's not-so-ex wife. There's a cast of colorful characters to round out this enjoyable read.