Book ~ "Death on the Rocks" (1999) Eric Wright

From Amazon ~ The author tests his unseasoned detective with a couple of perplexing cases. Canadian sleuth Lucy is hired by well-to-do Greta Golden to find out more about a man who is hanging around asking questions about her. When Lucy goes undercover and meets him, she finds out he's a fellow detective and gets him to reveal that he was hired by a British law firm to investigate Greta's background, as she may be an heir to a recently deceased and wealthy man. Greta has always thought she was an only child with no living relatives so she is intrigued to learn she may have family members in England. She rehires Lucy, this time to fill in the gaps in her parents' histories. In Britain, Lucy exhumes an old story of two sisters and the man they loved, a tale of jealousy and murder. A subplot involving the odd behavior of a drugstore owner adds a riddle to this otherwise straightforward mystery.

I was excited to find this mystery series that is based in Toronto.

The author is originally from England and that comes through as he talks about Toronto. No one refers to Yorkville as "Yorkville Village". And he referred to the Harbourfront streetcar route by something weird. I didn't get the feeling that he knew what he was writing about.

I didn't enjoying the writing style ... I found it frivolous. And I didn't care about the characters.

I tried to stick with it but finally gave up halfway through and skimmed to see how it ended.