This was part of a series of cozy mysteries set in Mennonite country about the audacious, sarcastic, wisecracking, proprietor of the PennDutch Inn. You will either love the author’s play on words, outrageous characters, and madcap plot twists or—you will hate the silliness, caricatures as characters, and oft-repeated jokes. There is no middle ground. Definitely light reading—not much of a book club book. If you read this series, don't try to read more than a few at a time. Let time elapse between books. What is humorous and clever in one or two books gets tedious after a while as same anecdotes and comments are repeated in each book as a way of establishing background.