Ross Greenwood

This is the next installment in the Norfolk Murders series and can be read as a standalone. The plot is labyrinthine… people buried alive, organized crime, drug use, immigrants, human trafficking, a possible “bent copper”, revenge….what do they all have to do with each other? And on a personal level will DS Ashley Knight realize that the fellow officer she is seeing is a poor choice for a romantic dalliance and will she cut him loose?

A solid police procedural, I like this investigative team with their close personal relationships and sarcastic humor. The criminals in this installment are quite malevolent and their crimes abhorrent while the writing pulls you in in this engrossing, can’t put down read.

If you enjoy police procedurals featuring capable female detectives, you can get in on this series from the beginning as this is only the third book. I have read two of them. While this story is grittier than the prior one I read, this author/series has been added to my “must read” list.

Thanks to #Netgalley and #BoldwoodBooks for the DRC.… (mehr)

OK, I'll 'fess up; these books are set in my locale, which gives them a head start in the positive review stakes. Death at Paradise Park is a well written book which is strong on characters. There are multiple police representatives as well as a good sprinkling of suspects and each comes across as a unique character. Even DS Ashley Knight, our main protagonist, is a realistic character - not the perfect genius, often afflicted by one flaw which disappears half way through their first appearance - she seems pretty decent, but not infallible.

My only complaint is that, when the villain is recognised, a character that I did not suspect more than any of the other possible murderers, I thought that credibility was a little stretched to accept the need for this person to have eliminated all the corpses in this tale.

A good read, none the less, and I have ordered book one (which I don't anticipate being spoilt by my reading it out of order) and look forward to the third.… (mehr)