Green with envy by N. L. Cameron

It wasn’t bad, it was an easy read and the setting was nice, but I think it wanted to be more than it was: a mystery novel for example. I mean, who do you think did it, the cheerful helpful girl, the proud irascible cook, the handsome handyman, or maybe the shady gardener? 
It would be a more interesting read for a teenager who hasn’t yet read many mystery novels, because for adults or mystery readers this comes up as rather simple and even a bit silly/absurd.
It's more a cheap romance story than a mystery.
The story:
Allie’s aunt Beatrice died six months ago and she inherited her Inn. She moves from New York to Heather’s Forge to start a new life, after dumping the boyfriend who cheated on her with her best friend (so twice betrayed). As she gets there it seems like everybody hates her, they show it very clearly that they don’t want her around. Nathaniel the gardener is very aggressive at first but becomes all honey when she firmly says that she’s the new owner and is not going anywhere. Camille the cook is very hostile towards her, only the local hairdresser Eliza seems to be willing to help - not just willing. She’s basically the only person in town who has welcomed her and who has also volunteered to help when she started saying ‘what do WE do first?’ or things like that. It was honestly rather strange that someone should do that; basically she spent entire days around Allie doing whatever she said, and there was no talking about her own job.
Allie finds threatening notes in her room and one day she finds a snake in her shower, but luckily Levi the handyman is there to help. Apparently all the women in town call him to do this or that job in the house only so they can look at his bottom... which sounds rather pathetic to me, exactly like it would be if the sexes were reversed. 
Allie wants to solve the mystery of who’s threatening her and also who killed her aunt, if someone actually killed her. The sheriff and the medical examiner in town are not really efficient to say the least, so she has no clues and no way of knowing or proving it.
She suspects everybody, even Levi; to win the townsfolk over she plans a big Christmas dinner party at which everybody’s invited and convinces Camille by appealing to her proud and desire to have her name out there, a recognition of her work. 
There are also suspicious guests staying at her hotel, and they do a terrible job at hiding their purpose there, so towards the end of the book she follows one of them up the mountain and hears him talk to the gardener. When she thinks they both went away she sneaks in to see what they were talking about: she finds A LOT of pot plants that Nathaniel was growing up there and selling for millions of dollars, but he comes back and takes her to some galleries in the mountain planning to leave her there alone to die. She could never find her way out without her phone and without a light, but luckily for her (...) Levi appears with a light (apparently he also had been following those two and saw Nathaniel carrying her on his shoulder and followed him, although how he ended up in there behind her is a mystery to me). They move around until they find, not the exit but Nathaniel again. They all fight, Nathaniel escapes and they are again in need to find their way out... until they spot Pixie the cat. Allie says that the cat looks really comfortable as if knowing exactly where she is, so they follow her... and right enough they find an exit. They reach town where they see Eliza shouting at the sheriff because he wouldn’t go looking for Allie, and they tell them everything, even showing the videos she took as proof. Nathaniel is arrested, and it’s also revealed that he had promised the rest of the staff the world to get rid of her, and that’s why they were so hostile. Even Levi, who also worried that her presence might destroy the peace he was there to find - because of course he likes her too.
Obviously Nathaniel killed her aunt too, and because of his drug-selling business he was also wanted by FBI. Allie suspects that Levi might be much more used to those police procedures than he’d like to talk about, so they never discuss his past.
The end shows how the Christmas dinner party is a big big success, and everybody’s happy and enjoying themselves. Allie finally feels like she’s found her place, where she belongs, and is happy about it.