She Doesn’t Have a Clue by Jenny Elder Moke
I should have enjoyed She Doesn't Have a Clue. It has so many of the elements I like - an isolated location, a closed circle of suspects, a spooky mansion, a quirky main character/ amateur sleuth. Turned out I was annoyed by it most of the time, but not quite enough to quit, probably because it was on audio. The narrator did a good job. Her pace fit the story well and she managed to keep the (too many) characters distinguished from each other. Quite honestly, she's the reason I stayed around for the reveal and the happy ending.
Kate has come to her ex-fiancé's wedding at a mansion on an island in the middle of a storm. Kate is a mystery writer and has a habit of lapsing into thinking about her characters and how they would respond to events in her life, which can be a little confusing at first. The first person she runs into is Jake, aka...