To be clear the events in the description never happen; they're canon events in the story but it's conveyed through dialogue rather than as an actual scene. Most developments in the story happen that way with unfeeling walls of dialogue from characters Sloane has just met and will not meet again for the rest of the story being the primary vessel for clues; except for some small bumps, Sloane has no challenge getting information out of people. Pair this with the overall lack of description and the smash cut scene transitions between chapters and it made for a rather bland read. It was a free ebook, though, and the actual mystery was interesting, just poorly delivered; I liked getting to know who did what to whom and why.

I took off a star for the use of OCD as an adjective not once, but twice, despite it being pretty clear Bradshaw was not intending to give Sloane OCD; there is nothing in this book that can even generously be interpreted as her struggling with OCD. Quotes in spoilers.

"I glanced at the carpet, and my OCD went into overdrive." page 24, to describe the character simply noticing something.

"I shifted my focus to a pile of haphazard bar napkins in disarray. I reached out, stacked them the right way, and leaned back, pleased my OCD had done its job for the night." page 59.