Last Reminder by Stuart Pawson is the fourth book featuring D.I. Charlie Priest in a British Police Procedural series. I have enjoyed every book in this series as the author is able to deliver imaginative stories that give the reader a nice balance between the mystery, the police business and Charlie’s own personal life. Peppered with humor and inventive dialogue, Charlie and his crew are likeable and intelligent.

This particular entry opens with Charlie being called to a suspicious death. The deceased was a financial advisor and very quickly it becomes known that this advisor caused many of his clients to lose their life savings in a poor investment scheme involving diamonds. The trail leads the police to a father and son duo of drug dealers and an unsolved gold bullion heist.

Last Reminder flows evenly and the story is interesting. The characters are well drawn, the author supplies sub-plots that feature both other police business as well as Charlies’ on-going struggles with his romantic relationship with Annabelle Wilberforce. All in all, Last Reminder was solidly entertaining and I look forward to continuing on with this series in the future. ( )

A very enjoyable novel featuring another outing for Detective Inspector Priest from Heckley C. I. D. This is the fourth installment in this very enjoyable series and has the customary smattering of dreadful jokes and almost painful wisecracking between the various detectives. However, like its predecessors it also has a very soundly-constructed plot and all of the characters are immensely plausible. I am definitely looking forward to the next volume in the series. ( )