Sometimes that’s annoying, but here it made perfect sense and fit with the general tone of the story, which is not really a whodunnit. Partly this was because there were only the vaguest hints, not really anything that could have led to the answer. Also, I’ve always liked the way Charlaine Harris isn’t afraid to tackle racism in the American South head on-this book is a bit of a follow-up to Shakespeare’s Champion both thematically and, through Bobo, plot-wise.The solution to the mystery came as a complete surprise to me. It’s rare (at least in the fantasy fiction I’ve read) for supernatural protagonists to have mundane problems. One of the best things about this book was the mix of the supernatural and the mundane. I wasn't disappointed-I really enjoyed this book.I’m not usually a fan of having multiple POV characters, but I thought the author used it very well. I liked him a lot better here than in that series, although that may also be because Charlaine Harris’s writing has improved over the years.) The town's quirky characters drew me in, and by the time Manfred, Fiji and Olivia started their investigation at the Cartoon Saloon, I was hooked.

(Funnily enough, I didn't realize that the police officer, Arthur Smith, is from the Aurora Teagarden series until almost the end of the book. Midnight Crossroad started a little slow, but I like Manfred Bernardo from the Harper Connelly series and Bobo Winthrop from the Lily Bard series, both of whom are main characters in the Midnight novels, so I kept at it.

Midnight crossroad by charlaine harris