9 A little disappointed

Seeing a young, Manfred Bernardo (he was in the Harper Connelly series) sinstalle in a small town deep lAmérique. He wants to take his business on the internet psychic quietly.
He gradually aware of all its neighbors, and is involved in their lives before they know why and how.
Each neighbor has its mystery, that he hides his past, or special powers.
There where its owner, Bobo (holding her role in Shakespeare series) inconsolable since his wife's left, which manages the Mount of local piety. The neighbor, Fiji, is a kind of New Age witch. A Does real powers? Her cat is it just normal? Further on, a couple whose dhomosexuels Mon holds a nail salon / pedicure. Opposite, the restaurant run by a colored woman, whose husband is a handyman. Basically, the church whose pastor Letrange almost never mingle with the others but sometimes blesses the home or in the open restaurant proclaim sermons. Then the owner of the suspicious petrol station / supermarket and her 2 children, who lives very aloof and keeps his children near him. Finally there was Olivia, a true warrior, often sabsente for mysterious missions. Finally, Lemuel, a very pale man who lives in the basement of the Bobo shop and only comes out at night.
Manfred sintéresse all, asks questions but rarely replies. He humbly accepts his state of ignorance and is swept away by the current. We discover Midnight Crossroad and its inhabitants through his eyes.

My opinion: I'm disappointed.
This is a series of characters that could be interesting but that it is hard to focus. They seemed to me artificial, except perhaps the garage and the pastor. Fiji witch is vaguely irritating and attractive Bobo spends most of his time immersed in his melancholy. He gently waiting to being beaten by the local KKK, which save the last minute every time Olivia and Lemuel. Lhomme mysterious living in the basement and only comes out at night is borderline ridiculous. Dhomos The couple must be there to meet a quota, I imagine, because they napportent nothing particular to the plot. Like the color family. In general, I have not found the characters very realistic, and the author wants to keep a maximum of mystery person reveals nothing and suddenly we really naccroche the adventures of the inhabitants of this small town.
And dailleurs it does not happen much, the mystery of the disappearance of Bobo companion is resolved in the end, we coasted meantime dextrême-right factions, police more or less honest and a series of characters that Mount tired. We find the same opponents hate Lily Bard Harper Connelly, but less convincing.
Frankly i struggled to go all the end of the book! I may be too mattendais to start a series like the excellent Shakespeare with old heroes like Lily Bard, or as Harper Connelly, javoue but I stayed on my hunger. Jespérais probably too Charlaine Harris javais which devoured delight all previous series