Fool Me Once by Fern Michaels is the perfect book for someone who likes their mysteries to be non-violent, their suspects to be puzzling but basically good, and for everything to work out happily ever after. As a bonus, in this book Fern tries her best to make you fall in love with her fictional Yorkshire terriers. Even their misdeeds are "cute" and "darling".
I don't mean to say the book is not a fun read. It is! The heroine Olivia Lowell has what she thinks is the perfect life when the will from a dead mother she didn't know she had, arrives to completely screw up her life and force her to do things she would never have done and meet people she would never have met. Some turn out pleasant enough such as the handler of a Yorkie she is commissioned to photograph. Others like her father's girl friend keep their distance.
There are plot turns right up to the last chapter but I got the feeling it was just to keep the book a certain length. The serious plot resolution seemed to take place much too soon. On the other hand, Ms. Michaels does appear to want to tie up all, and I mean all, loose ends.
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