Darcy starts to get on my nerves because she’s a terrible detective, she’s snoopy and she meddles in police work and people’s lives, justifying everything by feeling bad when she accuses an innocent and saying that catching a murderer is the most important thing, and blah blah blah, as if that could excuse her for ruining people’s lives :-/
Right into the details:
We see all the same characters in town, plus Lily working at the bakery with her brother and a couple of Jon’s friends from his college days, Dale and Cindy; Darcy is dating Jon but while they’re having dinner at a restaurant she has a vision about him and runs home very much shaken. There are a few boring pages where she asks Grace’s help to dig into Jon’s past, until she finally talks to him about it, deciding to trust him. We learned in the previous story that he was new in town, transferred from another department. We learn now that in his own town he was investigating the murder of a girl, asked his friend, private investigator Kyle, for help but he got killed too. At first as we already knew Jon had been investigated himself, but it was later declared suicide. Now Jon tells her he never believed that, he thought Kyle had been murdered too. They start investigating together.
Grace is attacked, hit on the head, but will be fine, as will be Jon who gets attacked too later on.
Darcy suspects Dale because she has a weird feeling about him, and yet the book ends and nothing comes to explain that, so she was totally wrong about him apparently. Jon had told her he was sure about Dale and yet she went to question him nonetheless :-/
Darcy connects with Grace and then Jon and sees when they were attacked; she detects a certain smell, knowing it from the bakery, so they arrest Lily, twice. The first time Jon simply went there to ask questions, she refused, got enraged, slapped him in the face and got arrested for that. Darcy later apologized for the arrest but Lily didn’t accept her apologies. Understandable, yes, but she never apologized for her hitting Jon and never explained what prompted her to do it. Darcy doesn’t bring it up, she simply goes out feeling bad.
The second time, after Jon’s attack; again she felt that smell and was sure it came from the bakery so Jon goes and arrests her right there at work in front of everybody :-/ Later she needs to be taken to the hospital because someone injected her with something and they finally start suspecting her brother, and just like that Jon can obtain a search warrant, simply by asking :-/ because come on, there was no real proof :-/ anyway, all these pages were boring because as they started talking about the anxiety pills Lily takes (and her brother Robbie too) or the bakery where she works (and her brother too) it was so obvious that it was him, and with no chance of mistake, Darcy had seen a man in her visions, and she knew what we knew so it was very annoying that she never thought of him and they kept arresting her :-/ and if they had not arrested her Robbie wouldn’t have been scared she might say something and would not have drugged her, so they endangered her life, whatever they might think. At the end Grace tells her that the two of them, Darcy and Jon, had saved Lily’s life so maybe she should forgive them... well, they endangered her life first...
They find proof at his house and at the bakery, then Jon runs after him but is considerably helped by the cat-detective Smudge who runs into Robbie’s legs making him fall.
I got so annoyed when Darcy insisted to go in with Jon, you know, ‘I won’t let you go in alone’ kind of thing, because it’s dangerous :-/ as if he needed her help or more importantly as if she could actually do anything to help him; she’s lucky, but thing is, if the story was plausible she’d be more likely to put him in danger, what with having to protect her...
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