What is the author's style in Shakespeare's Landlord by Charlaine Harris?

The story is told in a straightforward manner and generally in a chronological order. There are eleven chapters that are numbered but not titled. The story progresses from Lily Bard's witnessing of a furtive figure disposing of something in the local Arboretum. After the person disappears, Lily rushes to the park and finds that the dead body of the owner/landlord of the Shakespeare Garden Apartments. The main focus of the story from that point is a whodunit replete with a myriad of suspects ranging from the residents of the apartment building to other townsfolk who may have a motive to murder the generally detested Albee.