MURDER AT HONEYCHURCH HALL (Hannah Dennison)

I'm not positive how I feel about this book, but I'm kind of looking forward to the next installment so I can decide if I plan to continue reading the series.  I found it to be a little bit cluttered at first, like a room that needed to be organized before you could really enjoy it, but the characters grew on me as the novel progressed. 

Kat Stanford and her widowed mother have plans to open an antique business together, or at least those are Kat's plans.  Known as Rapunzel (for her luxurious hair) to her fans, Kat is a popular television personality specializing in in antiques.  She has just quit her TV hosting  job to start their new venture.  She decides to drive to Devonshire to track down her mother, who has purchased a dilapidated carriage house on the grounds of  crumbling estate called Honeychurch Hall.  Kat is horrified at the horrible conditions at the cottage and decides to stay on to help out her mother, who claims that her recent injuries are the result of sabotage attempts by other people on the estate who want her cottage for themselves,  All of the estate people- family, faithful retainers, and visitors - are quirky and a little confusing.  Eventually there is a murder, which Kat gets involved in solving, and in the end Dennison ties all of the story lines together.  I wouldn't give it 5 stars, but Murder at Honeychurch Hall shows promise once you sort everyone out.  It will be interesting to see how things develop in the next installment!