AS LONG AS SHE LIVES by Kate Wiley

3.5* Sadly, it feels like this series is going a bit off the boil. 

Don't get me wrong, this is very readable but it's lacking the edge-of-your-seat feel of the Margot tales as a detective, and the underlying arc doesn't seem anywhere close to being two-and-two'd any time soon. The identity of the killer is starting to feel anticlimactic and Margot's suspicions about her brother kind of feel a bit 'well, why didn't you trust your instincts?' especially with what she overhears. 

Life with Wes on the farm takes a big back seat. The black widow part of the tale is unsatisfying and the detective Margot's asked to deliver a message to is hyped up to be weird, has a questionable MO, and...it all goes nowhere. I wasn't sure why the author went here, as it felt like filler in an otherwise thin storyline. Still, there's something about the character and the writing that has me thankful that KW writes relatively fast.

ARC courtesy of NetGalley and Storm Publishing for my reading pleasure.