First, there are multiple formatting errors. All these aspects – execution of story arc, backstory, and formatting – come up short. They are clearly professionally edited with respect to consistency and continuity and with respect to typesetting and formatting.Not so with this short story. The four entries prior to this short story have been well-executed in terms of story arc and consistent from novel to novel with respect to backstory and passage of time. And that choice has everything to do with backstory and editing.Castillo only puts out a novel in this series once a year. They were simply barking up the wrong branch of the right tree.Even though Linda Castillo achieved a nearly perfect blend of mystery and romance with a believable conclusion to both in such a short story, I still feel the need to drop the rating on the entry. Neither incompetence nor shoddy work ethics were the cause of the police department’s failure at that time or since.

And in the end, it is not that Kate and John are better than the detectives who investigated so long ago. Through finely developed observational skills as well as an incident of happenstance (as opposed to coincidence), Kate and John solve the mystery within a day. Besides, the weather has turned cold and rainy and who wants to hike the river trails in those conditions anyway!The story is short, about 75% of the Kindle file downloaded, and concise. Justice, no statute of limitations on murder, memorial gravestones on the riverbank – such things just can’t be ignored, it seems.

more who disappeared from the inn only 22 years prior, leaving nothing behind but a stack of bloody clothes on the riverbank by the inn.So much for an idyllic, romantic getaway. And then he wishes he had kept his mouth shut.It seems that the ghost is not a centuries-old Victorian specter. This is a big move for each of their scarred souls and for their relationship.When John checks them in to the old Victorian-style B&B, he happens to mention their resident ghost he had read about on a travel website. However, this is the first time they have tried to spend both nights and days together strictly as lovers. They have spent nights together as lovers and they have spent days together as co-investigators on multiple high-profile murder cases. Review 1: Kate Burkholder and John Tomasetti are taking a weekend off from their various policing duties, intending to spend the two days together at an old country inn several hours from Painters Mill.

La lunga notte by Linda Castillo