This book a run-of-the-mill procedural featuring a private investigating firm made up of former federal agents. When a Mosque in Oakland County, Michigan is defaced, the family of a man killed in the bomb blast hires the Mack Agency to supplement the police in their search for the killer(s). Charlie Mack and her team does the legwork necessary to identify one of the perpetrators.

This is the 6th book in the Charlie Mack Motown mystery series and the author does little to introduce new readers to her series. None of the characters were developed in such a way as to give them personalities readers will fall in love with, perhaps the first book was where she did all that work, but she needed to at least help the new reader to her series want to read the 7th book and she failed to do that.

Head’s storyline had great potential, but it, like the characters, was never fully developed leaving the reader wondering when the story was going to take off and soar. There were problems with some of the events, i.e., when the bomb was detonated in an office in the Mosque, it was strong enough to blow the door out and kill a man, but not strong enough to destroy the interior of the office or do much damage to the office.

If you want a non-angsty summer read, this book may be what you’re looking for, but if you’re looking for a well-written, character driven book published by a LesFic publisher (with all that that usually entails), you’d best skip this book.

My thanks to NetGalley and Bywater Books for an eARC. ( )