Mostly dialogue; clever or not so clever repartee with the "puzzle lady" who only does kenken puzzles and has a daughter or daughter in law do crosswords. How anyone could mix that into a murder mystery is beyond practicality. Two murders occur during Cora the puzzle lady's kind-of hearing of her alimony. The ex who is on his 5th bimbo wants to stop paying. Another ex wife bimbo is right behind the cheating ex husband of Cora.
It's a lot of back and forth supposed jokes, pointless repeat of clues and what ifs, who done it's and big mouth nosy Cora even acts as a lawyer in court AS IF that is the least bit realistic. So of course she solves the case, manipulates people to do things for her to prove it and voila! Case closed.
Personally I wasn't crazy about it. If you like labeled murder mysteries you might if you can get over the self importance of the main character. I read a LOT and didn't like it much. Just my opinion.
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