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It might be good to try, then! Kingfisher really does have an interesting mesh of tones with it. It's a creepy story (oh, and if you are overly scared of bugs...there's a lot of bugs in this book, and they do some creepy things), but (so far) it's not Gratuitously Horror, if you know what I mean. Also, the POV character is very down to earth and earnest and logical and worried that something mundane like abuse or dementia is happening to her mom, and kind of funnily...honestly a lot of the creepy is just BLITHELY SAILING OVER HER HEAD. Once she figures out that (spoilers) The Supernatural Is Involved, I mostly expect her to go, ".....what the @&#^!$ HELL?" and want to fistfight whatever's causing this. So, it blunts some of the harsher parts of the "horror" aspects.

I mean...it's not COZY horror...but if that was a genre, it would be cozy horror ADJACENT, I think.