Thoroughly enjoyed it. Here's a review I put on Amazon:

I read crime fiction for relaxation and hunted out Like False Money because it is set in my locality. It certainly adds a frisson to the reading. I thought it a hoot that the protagonist found distances and the poor road system in our wide-horizon rural landscape so difficult to get her head round after being gridlocked in the city (Hull).

Annie Raymond is both young and very human, sometimes over confident and sometimes reticent, very much in keeping with her fraught grasp of her first PI placement: she has to bring in three good jobs to have a hope of making her temporary placement permanent, which happens during the course of the novel, but not as I anticipated.

I particularly liked the way the PI agency worked, none of this loose cannon stuff, but very much within the constraints of the law. It made the story very real. So did the well-defined supporting characters, from the empire-building Vince Sleeman to the bickering biscuit-eating sisters Annie finds herself working and living with.

The crimes start slow-burn and are intricately, and deeply, woven. There is no running ahead of the storyline here. It took me all my time to juggle the components. There is a scene at the top of a high-rise which made my stomach flip - a sure sign that I was empathising with the main character - but I won't elaborate here. Read it for yourself. I look forward to the next in the series. ( )

Took a long time to finish. Since it was set outside London some of the language took me a while to get through. ( )