Pretty good for a first book. I like Kate; though she kind of strikes me as one of the people whom everyone wants to kick for having their life a little too well in order.

The mystery here wasn't all that complicated (I pretty much guessed who the bad guy was early on), but the author comes at it in a bit of a roundabout way that's rather interesting and unique. Kate starts the book working on a couple of other cases at the beginning and we don't actually get to the murder bit until nearly halfway through the book. But she's obviously doing some mystery solving/PI stuff in that time too, so you're kind of left wondering where is this all going until you spot how everything fits together.

I'm curious which characters will end up being reoccurring in future books. Her relationship with the lead police investigator was pretty sketchy here, so I'm wondering if they'll develop a working relationship and collaborate in future or if they're being at odds will be a standing kind interaction.