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barbarahowe's review
3.0
Police procedural set in York in the UK, with a plot that starts off as a cold case murder and then morphs into a hot organised crime case. It was a moderately interesting, undemanding read, but the most interesting characters were the city of York itself (seriously, I now want to go there and "walk the walls") and the nameless man in the first chapter--he then gets a name and drops out of the story. Neither of the detectives was particularly interesting, and the big reveal of the senior detective's girlfriend left me scratching my head. So what that they were in bed together? It didn't seem like that big a deal. (But maybe there are ethics issues I'm not aware of since I'm not in law enforcement.)
Aside from that, the editing was really sloppy. The book was full of typos, poor word choices ("she was nauseating" when it should have been "she was nauseous"), and worst of all, the it didn't follow the normal convections regarding paragraph breaks in dialog. Several times I had to go back and re-read sections to figure our who was speaking.
This is the first book I've read in this series. It wasn't bad, but it just wasn't interesting enough to make me search out any of the others.
Aside from that, the editing was really sloppy. The book was full of typos, poor word choices ("she was nauseating" when it should have been "she was nauseous"), and worst of all, the it didn't follow the normal convections regarding paragraph breaks in dialog. Several times I had to go back and re-read sections to figure our who was speaking.
This is the first book I've read in this series. It wasn't bad, but it just wasn't interesting enough to make me search out any of the others.
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