Book Friday: A cozy mystery I didn't finish

 I love cozy mysteries, and this one intrigued me because it's about a woman who owns a shop that sells Scotland-oriented merchandise and has a centuries-old ghost from Scotland who came attached to a kilt she has in her possession. It's called "A Wee Homicide in the Hotel," and I gave up on it (I really wanted to love it). Perhaps if I sat and read about 5 or 6 chapters at once, I would have been able to get more into it. 

The ghost helps the shop keeper solve mysteries (and watches out for shoplifters). It sounds amazing. But... I couldn't get into it. I read 50 pages, which is usually my stopping place. There were scotty dogs, a guy who participates in Scottish games, Gilda the store employee, a chatty woman from the local city/town council and something going on between here and the games guy... and then a mysterious stranger, a lawman, the shopkeeper's cousin, the President of the U.S. (no name) and a bunch of other characters, which became hard to keep track of. Within 50 pages, there were so many people it was difficult to process them all and I had to keep re-reading to figure out who they were again. 

 

About the Book: 

A Wee Homicide in the Hotel (A ScotShop Mystery) Mass Market Paperback – February 7, 2017

The national bestselling author of A Wee Dose of Death returns to Hamelin, Vermont, where Peggy Winn, owner of a Scottish-themed shop, is spectator to caber tossing, sword dancing, and just a spot of murder...

Hamelin is overflowing with tourists enjoying the Scottish-themed games—and most of them are donning tartans from Peggy Winn’s ScotShop. And her fourteenth-century ghostly companion, Dirk, has been indispensable, keeping an eye out for shoplifters and matching customers’ family names to their clan plaid.

Adding to the chaos is Big Willie, a longtime champion of the games, but not everyone is happy to have him in town. So when he misses the first event of the weekend, Peggy senses something is awry. After Willie is discovered dead in his hotel room, the victim of a bagpipe-related crime, Peggy decides it’s up to her and Dirk to suss out a murderer.