Just Finished Reading A Killer Collection by Ellery Adams

I just finished reading yet another Ellery Adams (pen name of Jennifer Stanley) cozy mystery novel, this one the first in a different series.  The book is titled A Killer Collection and the series, centered around the western North Carolina Blue Ridge Mountains and the folk/craft industry there, is called Antiquities and Collectibles Mysteries.  Delving into this new series may have been a mistake: I couldn't care less about pottery...which was the theme of A Killer Collection...and understood less why anyone on Earth allow themselves to get into a murderous frenzy over collecting it.  Now food...that's another story...maybe I'll return to her Supper Club series for the next book.  Anyway, in this story the protagonist is Molly, a young, single reporter at a local periodical devoted to collectibles.  Her editor/boss is irritating, and she has a coworker she's slowly developing a romance with.  She lives with her mother and their cat...fall asleep yet?  Well, the author goes into a degree of detail describing the pottery creation process...now I'm really sinking into slumber!  The story does pick up at a pottery sale/auction, an event where everyone seems to go a little berserk as they claim different pottery pieces to buy.  One of them is the wealthiest collector in the area, known for his rudeness and arrogance...guess who ends up dead?  And the mystery is on.  One thing I like about these cozy mysteries is that, if one book doesn't resonate with me, it's short enough for me to finish and then consider whether it was just that book or the theme of the series.  To me, A Killer Collection is a good story...I just don't give much of a hoot about pottery or folk art in general...