A review by pr727
A Finer End by Deborah Crombie

2.0

I'll give it a 2.5. A Finer End stands out as quite different from the other Duncan Kincaid & Gemma Jones books for several reasons. The murder does not occur until about halfway through the book. A main character is injured before that, leading this reader to wonder if the injuries would lead to death. Also, Duncan and Gemma do not appear until later in the book. The setting is Glastonbury, site of the old abbey and the famous tor, which is quite interesting, but the New Age/paranormal aspects of the story and how they prompt several characters to behave are not believable. The who of who-dun-it seems, again, rather neatly explained at the end in a rather contrived fashion. I listened to the audio book, read by a different narrator than the earlier books in the series. It was not easy to distinguish the male characters and many times the voicing is so low in tone and volume that it was difficult to understand. I'll forge on with the series, hoping this installation was an aberration.