Bea Green

This was recommended somewhere, and I found it on Kobo Plus. I had high hopes for it, but almost immediately lost confidence. Even in the first sentence the rank surely should be DCI, and Abdul must also be a DCI. Then there was the fact that the case was to be handled by twos DCIs and a DI, with a sergeant being used to guard the murder scene. Everything I know about police procedure I have learnt from fiction like this, but this one grated on me in many places. Towards the end the DI behaved in ways I think she should have been demoted and then sacked for.

At one point the narrator used the adjective 'humongous' (US spelling) and then used 'ambiguous' where I am pretty sure the author meant 'ambivalent'. I skimmed it to the end, but this wasn't for me.… (mehr)