Just Finished Reading Death and a Dog by Fiona Grace

Second in the "cozy mystery" series by Fiona Grace featuring antiques dealer Lacey Doyle, Death and a Dog continues...and to an extent repeats...the protagonist's adventures and trials as she adjusts to life in a small English coastal village following her divorce from a deadbeat husband back in New York who gets spousal support from her.  After reading the first book Murder in the Manor last month, I concluded that "Fiona Grace" in all likelihood is a fictitious name since "she" has come out with 33 books in several different series in less than 3 years!  With this second installment of the series I'm reading, I was disappointed that, although new characters were introduced and technical aspects of the plot were different from the first (including the first time I've seen a sextant used in a story), I still experienced too much repetition...especially regarding how Lacey is always the first one to find the murder victim's body, the two clueless cops on duty always suspect her, the village's petty, gossiping people alternate between adoring and shunning her, and her mother and sister back home...and her ex...are overly negative and hostile. Neither the background stories of the romance between Lacey and Tom nor the mystery of her father's death in the area years before is advanced...I could go on.  Like the first book, the murder's solution in the end was lame...and yes, Lacey's adopted superdog Chester saves the day as the book's title clearly telegraphs.  I don't have a problem with the series being written by probably underpaid anonymous hack writers as much as I do about Lacey continuing to alternately seem spunky and assertive when around the cops and certain other people while playing the passive eternal suffering victim role around her own family and the fickle villagers around her. But maybe this is actually the one aspect of it all that rings true: don't we tend to stand up to some folks while folding to others?  Call me a glutton for punishment but I'm going to continue with this series.  I want to see if the "author" has the nerve to string out the repetition into a third book...