This is a really nice book.
It’s well written (sadly an author using correct grammar and appropriate language is a novelty these days, so this is novel) and the characters are highly believable. The good ones are likeable and the bad ones are horrid, but not so much that they become unrealistic.
The mystery is just mysterious enough to want to hear how it all fits, while the ending does slot together without relying on edge-of-your-seat implausible heroics and explosions to work. I know a few reviewers said that getting to the resolution was tedious and the ‘solution’ was obvious but that wasn’t really the point of the book. This is not a book that fits into the thriller/whodunnit genre, instead it’s actually a drama about interesting things occurring in the life of someone who just so happens to be a police officer solving crimes. When viewed in this light it is not slow but perfectly paced and whether or not you guess whodunnit is completely irrelevant.
Originally I wanted a little bit more resolution to the ending, but on reflection, I’ve changed my mind. Don’t get me wrong, there are no cliff hangers left to force you to buy the next in the series, it’s just that a lot of the ‘sorting’ out of the aftermath is left to our imagination rather than being explicitly written down. Which annoyed me since I like the characters so much I didn’t want to leave them before I was sure they were all going to be ok. But on thinking it over the ending is actually perfect the way it is, since that’s the way real life works.
It’s a great book, you should read it, and I am looking forward to reading more in the series.
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A story that grabs you and keeps you turning the pages!
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