Overall, 15 Minutes was cute and fun, the perfect fluffy mystery. I would love to read the rest of the series for many reasons- but mainly to see if Maizie and Nash ever get together! This had the Stephanie Plum feel to it, with the main character getting into many terrible, zany situations with almost no fault of her own, yet somehow Maizie can solve the mystery.
I struggled a little with Maizie and her poor choices, she is very naive at times and keeps needing a keeper to survive the day, as well as being so in the public eye and outgoing for a private investigator. It is like she is still playing a role and inadvertently falls into good information through no actual skill. I did not really connect to her, especially at the start of the book, but she became more real and fleshed as the story progressed (even though she was still at times more playing a role than being a person).
I enjoyed the over the top small town people with all the personality I could have hoped for in random side characters. And of course I loved broody Nash, Maizie’s hysterical half sister Remy, and Maizies’s new friends Tiffany and Rhonda. The mystery element was interesting enough, but I loved the character dynamics best.
I listened to the audiobook and the narrator did a good job with personality for Maizie as well as with different voices for the side characters. My one complaint was I was never sure if Maizie was thinking something or saying something, there was never any differentiation in tone or anything so I was moderately confused at times by the conversations.