Painting a picture

I want to say I enjoyed this book and for the most part I did but it was just too slow. The main character moaned about the police not investigating and she would have to, then she went and baked a cake or talked to the manager at the hotel about her business? How was that going to help? It just felt like too many suspects and she didn't know who to question. There was also a few unanswered questions, which didn't help. I know it was meant to be a simple town but the attitudes and the way they treated people also put me off. I did like the main character and her adorable puppy and think I will probably listen to the next book.
When her uncle died Miranda decides to offer a new experience, a hike in the Daniel Boone National Forest before a painting lesson in the great outdoors and finishing with a home cooked traditional meal and a lesson on moonshine in her own home. Her first lesson takes a turn when the cook she hides is found dead in the kitchen. The big city boys take over from the country police and are quick to decide if was an accident. But with rumours flying around it was murder and the speculation hurting business Miranda decides to investigate. Can she find the killer or will her business be over before it's even begun? Especially as offering moon shine to her guests hasn't gone over well with the locals or even the dead cook, could the police really think she would kill someone in her own home?
I like the narrator. She gave each character a pleasant voice but I wouldn't really say the accent, that I have come to expect from listening to other narrators reading stories set in Daniel Boone National Forest.

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