Denise – sounds great! I have three suggestions, but they are picky.
Who is Julep? Does she have any investigative skills? If she is a new character (ie. this is book one in a series), might want to offer a [very] short description of her to let us know whether she’s going to be good at this investigation or find herself bumbling through.
Where does this take place? I think you said in an apartment building, which is quite different from, say, a small country village. Would be good to make that clear as well.
And last, saying “drags them” made me think that Julep’s ex was also going to get
involved in the investigations. If this is not true you might want to
say “drags her”, so it’s clear it is only Julep.
